

Assessment and the Notice and Note SignpostsĦ. The Generalizable Language We Use for Each Signpostħ. The Role of Generalizable Language in Teaching these Lessonsĥ. And one final question: Are we creating lifetime learners?Ģ.

As I’m choosing novels, don’t the CCSS say novels must be harder, be more complex?ġ0. To talk about novels do we all need to be reading the same book?ĩ. Do text-dependent questions foster engagement?Ĩ. What is the role of talk in creating intellectual communities?Ħ. What do we mean by intellectual communities?ĥ. Where does rigor fit in with this discussion of reading?Ĥ. And they’ll need you, and other teachers like you, to invite them into the conversations that will transform them into the close and thoughtful readers whose entire lives will be enriched by books.ģ. They will need you to put the right books in their hands, books in which they can get lost and books in which they can find themselves. We hope that Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading will help students come to enjoy the pleasures of reading attentively and responsively.

This is our language and we don’t expect it to work for you or your students until you’ve put it in your own words, but it will give you a start, a place to begin. Part III, The Lessons We Teach, provides model lessons for teaching the Signposts.

Part II, The Signposts We Found, explains the Notice and Note Signposts, the role of generalizable language, and the anchor question that accompanies each signpost. See these questions as starting points for rich conversations about literacy education in your own classroom and your own school. Also in Part I you’ll see sections labeled “What you might wonder about.” These are additional questions we thought you and others in your own learning community might want to discuss. Our answers, tentative as they are, may help you understand the thinking that guided our development of the Notice and Note Signposts.
#Notice and note aha moment texts series#
Because our thinking about these topics mostly took the form of questions we asked of one another, we decided to present this section as a series of questions and our answers. Part I, The Questions We Pondered, shares our thinking about some critical topics of today. (click any section below to continue reading) Video It should help them become the responsive, rigorous, independent readers we not only want students to be but know our democracy demands.Ī new Notice and Note Literature Log offers students practice finding the signposts-with over-the-shoulder coaching from Kylene and Bob. Notice and Note will help create attentive readers who look closely at a text, interpret it responsibly, and reflect on what it means in their lives. offer 6 Notice and Note model lessons, including text selections and teaching tools, that help you introduce each signpost to your students.provide 6 text-dependent anchor questions that help readers take note and read more closely.identify 6 signposts that help readers understand and respond to character development, conflict, point of view, and theme.examine the new emphasis on text-dependent questions, rigor, text complexity, and what it means to be literate in the 21st century.
