Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts

Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.

Grades 6-12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to:

Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words Encourage students' active participation in text-centered class discussions Increase students' motivation and competence when approaching complex texts

Contents:

Part 1: The Case for the Deep Sense Approach Chapter 1: Why and How Secondary Students Resist Reading Info-Texts Chapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving Comprehension Part 2: Teaching the Deep Sense Approach Chapter 3: Helping Adolescents Regain Their Reading Confidence Chapter 4: Strategy Instruction That Works Chapter 5: Leading Text-Centered Discussions Chapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies (SITS) Part 3: The Deep Sense Approach Strategies Chapter 7: Focus on Meaning Making Chapter 8: Prepare to Read Chapter 9: Read Actively Chapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and Evidence Chapter 11: Consolidate Learning Appendix A Appendix B References and Resources Index