Determining+Importance

Think Aloud







In Chapter 10 in __Reading With Meaning__ by Debbie Miller, she reminds us of the importance in teaching students to read for specific information to their questions, and in **Determining Importance** in Nonfiction text.

Unlike determing importance in fiction, where readers identify themes in stories, make inferences, predict, and use what they know about narrative text to **distinguish important from unimportant information,** readers begin to "read to learn" in nonfiction text.

In Chapter 10, Debbie teaches us the importance of:
 * Modeling Differences Between Fiction and Nonfiction **pg. 144**
 * Noticing and Remembering When We Learn Something New **pg. 147**
 * Convention notebooks **pg. 148**
 * Locating Specific Information **pg. 150**
 * **Evidence of Understanding and Understanding** **pg. 152**

Determining Importance Poster:



[|Into the book lessons]


 * Texts for Determing Importance in Nonfiction Text**

Julie Lorusso's lesson plan

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