Macroprocesses

Instructions:
Add whatever you want to Strategies, Activities, Informal Assessment and Formal Assessment. Start by clicking "edit page" and then it is like a word processor. If you want to change the wording of what has been already written, treat it like your own text and change it. That is, if you have a more explicit way of saying something, or want to add more and change the wording, just do so. We will be able to track what has been changed, so we can discuss any discrepancies (let's not worry about "hurt feelings" here--this is academic meaning negotiation, and important for critical thinking!!). When you add something, put your initials in parentheses behind it. That will help us to negotiate meaning.

Reading Strategies
Summarizing(E.M) Making global connections - understanding the structure of the text(E.M) Use graphic organizers, pattern guides, (jac) Using macrorules - deletion, superordination, selection, invention (E.M.)

Activities
Teach story grammars and organizational patterns (jac) Macrocloze - students write new ending to story, students write a group story(E.M) scrambled stories - students work together to put a story back together(E.M) using response journals to explain thinking (a.p.) Explicite instruction on how ideas connect (a.p.) Probable Passages (jac) Story retelling with structural guidance (jac) Recipe for a Story (jac) Think-aloud activities Writing summaries -How Short Can your make it?, Summary blueprints, select the best (jac) character descriptions pictures of settings

Informal Assessment
Response journals (a.p.) conferring (a.p.) Observation/discussion(E.M.) asking questions about important details short summary use ethnographic note-taking

Formal Assessment
Write a summary Share a summary orally Answer questions with longer responses Essay-type responses with higher level questions Write a Fair Test (jac) portfolio assessment self assessment w/ checklist of questions