Variety of Texts Text Forms

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Variety of Texts Text Forms

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Common Texts

Functional Texts

Scripts

Business letters

Advertisements

Invitations

grocery and other lists

diaries or journals

essays

critical reviews

research reports

magazines and newspaper articles

Procedural Texts

instructional manuals

street maps

recipes

Evokes emotion

Words

Imagery

Rhythm

Verses

Fiction Genres

Mystery

Myth

Science fiction

Romance

Legend

Humour

Horror

Historical fiction

Folk tale

Fantasy

Fairy tale

Fable

Epic

Adventure

Sources

Contests where students are asked to pick their favourite book/movie. This is made each year by the Ontario Library Association. It is called The Silver Birch Award- https://accessola.org/web/ola/Forest_of_Reading/Programs_For_School_Aged_Readers.aspx

List of books that win awards (Ex. The Governor General's Award for Children's Literature).

Websites dedicated to the needs of young readers

Reviews in professional journals

Devices

Graphic organizing, assistive technology, voice recognition

Great for students that have special accommodations for reading and/or writing

Allow students to have multiple ways of obtaining information from visual/various sources.

Translation programs

Projectors/overheads

Give students opportunities to have shared reading and writing activities.

Audio recorders

VCR/DVD players

Cellphones can be used

Scanners

Video Cameras

Digital Cameras

Computers

Resources to Access Text Forms

Internet

Library

Public librarian

Ask the school librarian (teacher-librarian)

These librarians will help find a collection of resources that reflect the diverse reading levels, interests, and instructional needs of the students.

Mentor Texts

High-quality and well-written texts that can be used by teachers. They introduce students to a strategy, literary device, or text feature that students can use to remember how to apply the strategy.

Examples: Strategy: questioning Literary device: foreshadowing Text feature: diagrams

Students read and imitate

Why Variety?

Being exposed to non-traditional books such as electronic and multimedia texts, allows students to assess materials critically

Being exposed to different reading materials/variety of forms of text allows students to make connections between reading and writing

Students need to see examples of good writing using different styles

Non-Fiction Genres

Memoir

Biography

Autobiography

Instructional Approaches

Shared reading

Read-alouds

Guided reading

Independent reading

What to consider

Choose resources that keep in mind the learning of all learners in the classroom. This means giving students a variety of texts and text forms.

Consider stories about identity, heroes, and role models

Consider the relevancy of the resources. Make sure that they are up to date

Consider talking to your colleagues about the resources used at the junior level

Look into your own school boards policies and standards about the resources available to you.

Student's reading levels

Consider the interests of the junior learner

Use a survey to find out the interests of the students in your classroom.

Make the students active participants in the process of selecting, organizing, and maintaining the classroom resources.

Consider the student's cultural backgrounds

Language-books in the students first language is a helpful starting point. Especially for ESL/ELL students.

Offer multiple resources because of this rather than one resource that you think may suit/interest all the learners. Never assume this.

Types of Resources

Poetry

Notes

In order to help student meet the literacy demands of a multicultural, multimedia world, the classroom collection needs to expose them to a broad range of text forms and genres (p. 75)

Reference Material

Word-game material

Style-guides

Thesauri

Dictionaries

Multimedia resources

Flyers

Journals

Reports

Song books

Brochures

Picture books

Graphic novels

Comic books

Magazines

Posters

Electronic newspapers

Computer access to websites

Non-Fiction

Fiction

Technology

Computers, laptops, iPads, chromebooks, SmartBoards are some examples of the technologies used in junior classrooms.

Can be used in lessons to support learning ie. digital learning

Technology supports lifelong learning

Technology gives students opportunities to explore and make connections with the world that they live in.