Encouraging higher order thinking skills while making connections to nonfiction texts

1. Reading Strategically,
Thinking Critically: Making
Connections with
Nonfiction Texts
Presented by Dawn M. Little, M.Ed.
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2.  Builds fluency, vocabulary, background
knowledge, and comprehension
 An efficient way for students to expand
their vocabulary and concepts and share
and understand texts (Sharer, et al.,
2005)
 Meets the Common Core Standards
Why read nonfiction aloud?

3. Reading Strategically: Using Nonfiction
to Make Connections

4. “The most general approaches to
higher-order thinking is the
Anderson and Krathwohl
(2001)division of learning into
learning for recall and learning
for transfer” (Brookhart, 2010)

5. Text-to-Self
Text-to-Text Let’s move
Higher Order
to. . .
Thinking Skills and
Text-to-World Connections
Literal Connections

6. Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Thinking Critically: Using Bloom’s
Taxonomy to Make Connections

7. “[Students] can regurgitate text on a
literal level, but increasingly, they
have trouble with heavier
intellectual lifting” (Gallagher, 2009)

8. We want students
to be able to
transfer
knowledge of a
skill or strategy to
their independent
reading and
content area
reading.

9. Activator: Who do you think we will read
about today?
With the person next to you, discuss who
you think the read aloud may be about.