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Literacy and History Resources
Lesson #6
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Perspective
Pre, During and Post Reading --> literacy
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What’s Happening?
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The Batsmen were merciless against the Bowlers. The Bowlers placed their men in slips and covers. But to no avail. The Batsmen hit one four after another along with an occasional six. Not once did their balls hit their stumps or get caught.
• Daniels, H. And Zemelman, S. 2004. Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (p.21-22)
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What’s Happening?
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Importance of Background Knowledge
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Daniels, H. And Zemelman, S. 2004. Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (p.25-26)
Context is Everything
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With hocked gems financing him, our hero bravely defied all scornful laughter that tried to prevent his scheme. “Your eyes deceived” he had said. “An egg not a table correctly typifies this unexplored planet.” Now three sturdy sisters sought
proof. Forging along sometimes through calm vastness, yet more often over turbulent peaks and valleys. Days became weeks as many doubters spread fearful rumours about the edge. At last from somewhere, welcomed winged creatures
appeared signifying momentous success.
Daniels, H. And Zemelman, S. 2004. Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. (p.25-26)
Context is Everything
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How does the subject area determine
how meaning is constructed?
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He put down $20.00 at the window. The woman behind the window gave him $4.00. The person next to him gave him $8.00, but he gave it back to her. So, when they went inside, she bought him a large bag of popcorn.
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Adapted from: Beers, Kylene. 2003. When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, p.
62-63
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Inferences
“An inference is the ability to connect what is in the text with what is in the mind to create an
educated guess.”
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Beers, Kylene. 2003. When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, p.61-62
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Activity
The Porcelain Unicorn
Observation Inference
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Inferences
• “Inferring is an aspect of reading comprehension that occurs between the reader’s background knowledge and the text.”
• Fisher and Frey, 2009
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• Beers, Kylene. 2003. When Kids Can’t Read: What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Daniels, H. And Zemelman, S. 2004. Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
• Fisher, Douglas and Frey,Nancy. 2009. Background Knowledge: The missing piece of the comprehension puzzle. Portsmouth,NH: Heinemann.
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Historical Resources
All of these are available on my DIIGO page
http://www.diigo.com/user/appledaughter
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Historical ResourcesWednesday, 10 October, 12
McCord Museum (Montreal)
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/keys/webtours/
Interactives and Games
Images, political cartoons
Online Quizzes (good for the Smartboard!)
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New France
Museum of Civilization’s Virtual Museum of New France
Parks Canada: Defending Quebec
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World Wars
Animated Maps
Games
Multimedia on the “Big Concepts”
Juno Beach - multimedia
interactive Centre
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