7)+Reading

=**Reading** = **TASK:** Read and reflect on three different texts.

**1) Common Text** All fellows will read Peter Johnston's //Opening Minds: Using Language to Change Lives.//

**2) Writer on Writing** Select a writer on writing book. These texts consist of a writer talking about writing practice and ideas. Possibilities include: (Please choose one of these books or a different book in which a writer writes about writing. We recommend that you find at least one other fellow who is reading the same book.)
 * Mary Pipher's //Writing to Change the World//
 * Stephen King's //On Writing//
 * Brenda Ueland's //If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit//
 * Anne Lamott's //Bird by Bird//
 * Natalie Goldberg's //Writing Down the Bones// or //Old Friend from Far Away//
 * Richard Hugo's //The Triggering Town//
 * Margaret Atwood's //Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing//

**3) Literacy Practices**
 * Elementary Teachers: Lynne R. Dorfman's //Nonfiction Mentor Texts: Teaching Informational Writing Through Children's Literature, K-8//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Content Area Teachers: Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman's //Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading//
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Secondary English Teachers: Jeff Wilhelm, Michael Smith, and Jim Fredricksen's //Get It Done [[file:Get It Done (text of book).pdf]]//

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">We encourage you to talk with each other throughout the spring as you explore these texts. We have set up discussion boards on the wiki for you to share ideas and questions. Many former fellows have found it extremely helpful to work together to understand these texts.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">After reading the common text and the literacy practices text, please create a product that demonstrates your response to each particular text. Please bring these responses with you to the summer institute and be prepared to share them with your colleagues. You also need to include these responses in your final portfolio.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Your response can come in many different forms; try a strategy that you haven’t done before or one you might use in your classroom. Some ideas include:
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> A flipbook that takes important ideas from the text and organizes them
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A comic strip that highlights the narrative of the text and the main ideas
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Implementation guide: A guide for a colleague or student teacher as to how you would implement the ideas in your text into your classroom or curriculu

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**PURPOSE**: Reflect on readings by inquiring into required texts in preparation for discussions with reading groups at the institute and produce an artifact that illustrates your thinking.

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**CRITERIA**: Please complete one reading response for the common text and one reading response for the literacy practices text. This final piece will be something that you present to your reading group to spark discussion among colleagues who teach in very different contexts. The response should represent a holistic view of reflection on the entire text. Your reflections on the readings will be placed in your portfolio. Your response can take many forms. Consider these questions when completing your response:

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;"> Definition and description questions (questions that elicit literal responses like summaries and comprehension):
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What ideas do you find in the texts that will help you as a teacher?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What principles are explored in the texts that you may practice in your classroom?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Comparison questions (questions that compare points of view):
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What principles are you finding agreement with as you read?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What things produce strong reactions from you? Why might that be?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Change questions (questions that highlight how ideas change over time):
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">What may you be struggling to accept? Why is that?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Relationship questions (questions that put ideas into conversation with one another):
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">How does the work validate what you do or nudge you to improve?

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**AUDIENCE**: Self, coaches, and reading groups.

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<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Reading Strategies:** >
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Socratic Seminar