Organizational Patterns

Focusing on Literacy Links

ORGANIZATIONAL PATTERNS FOR TAKING NOTES Chapter 3 Pages 143 - 147

Focusing on Organizational Patterns Objective: •To use Thinking Maps as organizational patterns for taking notes more effectively. Identifying Sample Organizational Patterns

Welcome and Agenda

Planning time for classroom applications.

Closure and expectations for sharing student work

“Mapping” a sample informational text

A Language for Learning Chapter 3 Pages 143 - 147

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You Have Applied Thinking Maps to Literacy Skills CHAPTER 3 LITERACY LINKS

Your students are beginning to use Thinking Maps to deepen their understanding of academic vocabulary. You have modeled the use of Thinking Maps for writing across the curriculum. You have integrated the use of Thinking Maps with your students’ note taking strategies. Your students are beginning to use Thinking Maps as strategies to improve their reading comprehension.

The Essential Nine 1. Identifying Similarities and Differences 2. Summarizing and Note Taking 3. Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition 4. Homework and Practice 5. Nonlinguistic Representations 6. Cooperative Learning 7. Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback 8. Generating and Testing Hypotheses 9. Cues, Questions, and Advanced Organizers

Peregoy and Boyle. Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL

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“Text structure provides a conceptual net for keeping information in mind.”

“Text organization has a profound effect on comprehension and memory.”

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“Students miss much of the original data (up to 50 percent) when the cognitive strategies were not fully or partially developed.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

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Most writers present information in the context of an explicit structure, and the more a person is aware of this explicit structure, the better she is able to summarize the information.” p. 32

What Is the Organizational Pattern?

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Sample Passage The water is cleaned at the water treatment plant. This cleaning is done in steps. First, the water is poured into a large tank. Then, it is mixed with a substance that causes sticky clumps to form. The clumps settle on the bottom of the tank and the cleaner water moves on. The water still needs more cleaning. In the second step, water is poured through a layer of gravel.

Breaking the Code On (date), not long after, now, as, before, after, when, first, second, then, finally, during, until.

What Is the Organizational Pattern?

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Sample Passage Lewis and Clark were both strong leaders but different from each other. Lewis liked to walk on the riverbank ahead of everyone. Clark guided the boat along the river.

Breaking the Code However; but, as well as, on the other hand, not only…but also, either…or, while, although, similarly, yet unless, meanwhile, nevertheless, otherwise, compared to, and despite.

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What Is the Organizational Pattern? Sample Passage Scientists come to the Antarctic to study the weather and the ice. Scientists also want to learn more about how animals live in this harsh climate.

Breaking the Code because, cause, since therefore, consequently, as a result, this led to, so, so that, nevertheless, accordingly, if…then, and thus.

What Is the Organizational Pattern? Sample Passage The hippo’s head is huge. It has a big mouth, with teeth so long they are like husks. The hippo’s body is shaped like a barrel. It has very short legs and each foot has four toes with very thick toenails. The hippos has nostrils high up on its muzzle.

Breaking the Code Parts, components, structures, form

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What Is the Organizational Pattern? Connections Across Continents After Europeans explored parts of Asia and Africa, they look westward across the Atlantic Ocean. No maps existed to help sailors cross it. First, Spain sent ships across the Atlantic. Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492. When he reached land, he thought he had reached the Indies in Asia. The people he met became known as Indians. After Columbus’s first voyage, Spain sent more explorers, soldiers, priests, and settlers. The Spanish conquered the Aztecs in 1521 and the Incas in 1533. By 1535, Spain had established the colony of the New Spain in the Americas.

What Is the Organizational Pattern? About one hundred years after Columbus’s first voyage, English colonists attempted to set up a colony on Roanoke Island in 1587. The colony and its people disappeared by 1590. Next, English colonists settled at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. After several difficult years, settlers raised tobacco as a successful cash crop. New people arrived, including Africans. Farther north, the French established the city of Quebec in 1608, which later became the capital of the colony of New France. Sixteen years later, in 1624, the Dutch started New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island.

What Is the Organizational Pattern? In 1620, a new group of English settlers landed at Plymouth. The Pilgrims wanted religious freedom. In 1630, a larger group of English settlers, the Puritans, arrived. They, too, wanted to practice their own religion. They founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Eventually there were 13 English colonies along the eastern coast of North America. Apply it! 1.

Which European country was the first to establish colonies in the Americas?

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Who arrived first, the Puritans or the Pilgrims?

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In what order were the colonies of New Amsterdam, New Spain, and New France established?

Chapter 16 Bacteria

.Describe the characteristics of bacteria.

.Name and describe the structures of the bacterial cell.

.Explain how bacteria are classified.

.Distinguish between heterotrophic and autotrophic bacteria.

C O D E

.Describe the various types of bacterial respiration. Bacteria are everywhere. They are found in air, water, soil, your food, and in the bodies of all living things. They can live in places where no other living thing survives. They have been found in the icy regions of the Arctic and Antarctic, and in the nearboiling waters of hot springs. They live on mountaintops and ocean bottoms. A drop of pond water may contain over 50 million bacteria.

.Discuss the role of bacteria

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in nature.

.List several ways to limit bacterial growth.

.Describe the ways in which bacteria may gain new genes.

.Discuss the steps involved in genetic engineering.

O R D S

The Seven Stages of Man Motivation/Prior Knowledge Ask students to summarize the main stages they have passed through in their own lives so far. Tell them that Shakespeare describes the stages of human life in this poem. Master Teacher Note: You might want to tell students that Shakespeare frequently compared life to acting. In this speech, however, he extends the comparison for many lines. Purpose-Setting Question: How accurate is the description of each stage of life? .Discussion: How can one person play many parts? .Reading Strategy: Ask students to predict what the stages will be.

What Are the Code Words?

Organizational Patterns “In order to remember, the mind must sort through information and store what is important and discard what is not important. In order to remember the important parts of text, the mind needs to sort against the structure of the text.”

“Building Learning Structures Inside the Head” Ruby Payne, Ph.D.

Now You Try Read an informational article and take notes based on the organizational patterns found in the text. Circle any “code words.” Add a Frame of Reference to every map you make and summarize the information in one or two statements that you write inside the Frame.

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Recognizing Text Organizational Patterns

Students use Thinking Maps to visualize organizational patterns

Students can use the maps to store, retrieve, and summarize information.

Students become more active and engaged in their reading.

Students are more able to selfmonitor if they are gathering the needed information from a text.

Closure

Take some time to meet by grade level or department in order to plan how you might use Thinking Maps to take notes. Save your students’ work and be prepared to share their examples at our next follow-up session.