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Looking at Graphics

4/21/2016

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Here is a quick look at one way to introduce graphics, how to read and interpret them, and how they fit into a piece of nonfiction - the job they do (purpose). Encourage students to use graphics when they write nonfiction text whenever it's appropriate.
  • Display only the graphics of the piece of nonfiction text on an overhead, PowerPoint, poster, or chart paper.
  • Model how to read the graphics, noting the key words and phrases.
  • Ask students to list the ideas they anticipate the author will cover in the text (predictions).
  • Read the text of the piece together – aloud.
  • Using the students’ list of anticipated ideas, abandon those that are not found or answered within the body of the text.
  • Assimilate or accommodate ideas the author does address into the list.
  • Review the list of revised information found in the text.
  • Point out to students that these ideas are the essential information or main ideas presented.
  • Review the steps of this strategy minilesson: Anticipate, Actively read, Abandon, Assimilate and Accommodate.
 


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    Lynne loves to write in the early morning hours, especially in warm weather when she can sit outside on the patio.  After a walk with her three Welsh Corgis, her mind is cleared and her spirit is inspired by the choir of birds in nearby bushes and trrees. 

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