Inquiry in Context

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Inquiry and
Reading in the Content Areas
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Seven Comprehension Strategies
Making Connections
Asking Questions
Determining Importance
Visualizing
Inferring
Synthesizing
Repairing Comprehension fix-up strategies
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Open Word Sort
krill web flippers fluke
tentacles meat plankton wings insects
trees ocean seals molars rainforest
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Illinois School Park Forest, Illinois Dear
Second Grade Students, Lions and tigers and
bears, oh my! Those are some of the animals we
will see on our trip to the zoo. But what do we
know about these animals? Where do they live
when they are not in a zoo? Do we have lions and
tigers in the United States? Could parrots live
in our backyards? Some animals are endangered and
only live in zoo habitats. What is happening to
their homes? Before we go to the zoo I would
like you to find out about these animals and
create guide books for us to use on our trip.
Please include information about the way animals
look and behave in their natural environment. We
also need information about the animals
survival, conservation, and importance. After
we have learned about animals and visited them in
the zoo the third graders will organize an
election to choose a school mascot. A school
mascot is a very important symbol. We need to
choose a school mascot that is worthy of our
attention and promotes school spirit! Most people
choose a mascot because of the way it looks.
Because you will know so much about animals I
want you to nominate ten animals that could be
our school mascot. The animals should represent
all five classes - mammals, insects, reptiles,
amphibians, and birds. Then well have a school
election to choose the best mascot for us. Be
sure to include information about how these
animals adapt and survive. We dont want students
choosing a mascot only because of the way it
looks! I look forward to your nominations and to
our trip to the zoo. Sincerely, Dr. Joyce
Carmine, Principal Illinois School
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Semantic Features Chart
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Stages of Inquiry in the Classroom

• Making Connections
• Text to text, text to self, text to
• world
• Open and closed word sorts

• Encountering the Issue
• getting the big idea
• making connections

• Task Analysis
• defining the task
• asking questions

• Asking Questions
• Right there, think and search
• Author and you, in your head

• Investigating Information
• seeking, organizing, analyzing,
• applying to project

• Determining Importance
• Features, structures of text
• Note taking, graphic organizers
• Facts to main ideas, summaries

• Reasoning with Information
• evaluating, creating, judging,
• inferring, visualizing
• making decisions

• Inferring and Visualizing
• creating models
• using text clues and prior knowledge
• using implicit and explicit information
• to reach conclusions (author and you)

• Acting on Decisions
• synthesizing
• communicating findings

• Synthesizing
• text to text, self and world
• applying to new settings and contexts
• in your head

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Know and apply concepts that explain how living
things function, adapt and change.
Know and apply concepts that describe how living
things interact with their environment
Read The Log Hotel By Anne Schreiber
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Aspects of Content Area Vocabulary
Here is my shuttle with the astronaut crew that
Ill STASH with my cars. (The Bag Im Taking
to Grandmas House) What synonym can you give for
stash?
Here is the book I want to read, PROPPED on my
pillow What synonym can you give for propped?
Colonies
Honeycomb
Pollen
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Aspects of Content Area Vocabulary Terms are
often semantically related.
Armbruster and Nagy, Vocabulary in content area
lessons. 1992
cirrus
cumulus
stratus
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Aesops Fable The Fox The Sick Lion
pounced
lair
semantically unrelated
morsel
grumbled
obviously
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Open Word Sort
krill web flippers fluke
tentacles meat plankton wings insects
trees ocean seals molars rainforest
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Closed Word Sort
krill web flippers fluke
tentacles meat plankton wings insects
trees ocean seals molars rainforest

• Categories
• Animal habitats
• Animal features
• Food for animals
• no clue

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Closed Word Sort
ocean rainforest web trees
meat krill insects plankton

• animal habitats

food for animals
flippers fluke tentacles wing molars

• Categories
• Animal habitats
• Animal features
• Food for animals
• no clue

animal features
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Making Connections With Words
Connect Two
whales cub dens herbivore fur lodges
kit beavers waste omnivore droppings fins
and
are connected because
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Making Connections With Words
Word Splash
More About Beavers, Page 28, 29
cheeks
ticks
first grader
excrete
nibbling
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Anticipation Guides
Making Connections
Me Text
Mosquitoes eat plant nectar and pollinate plants.
Mosquitoes make great food for fish.
Honeydew is a favorite food of the male mosquito.
The larvae do not breed successfully in water
that has fish or frogs.
Mosquitoes are the most dangerous Animal in the
world.
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Types of Questions

• There are how many types of bees?
• How many eggs does the queen lay?
• What does the drone do?
• Where does a colony live?
• What do worker bees do for the colony?
• What do bees do with pollen?
• Where do bees live?

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Half of the QAR
In Your Head (Inference)
In the Book (Investigation Information)
Right There Queens Lay 1500 eggs each day.
Right There Drones mate with the queen bee.

• Worker Bees
• Make wax
• Feed the larvae
• Collect pollen
• Store pollen
• Make honey
• Guard the hive

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The Other Half of the QAR
In the Book (Gathering Information
In Your Head (Inference)
Author and You (Inference) Which bee is the
busiest? Why is it necessary for the queen to lay
so many eggs?
Right There Queens Lay 1500 eggs each day.
Right There Drones mate with the queen bee.

• Worker Bees
• Make wax
• Feed the larvae
• Collect pollen
• Store pollen
• Make honey
• Guard the hive

On Your Own Do you know someone who works as
hard as the bee?
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Question/Answer Relationship (QAR)

• IN MY HEAD
• Author and You answer not in text must think
  about what is known, what text is saying and how
  it fits together

• IN THE BOOK
• Right There answer in text,
  easy to find words used in question and used in
  answer are in same sentence

• Think and Search
• words and answers
• come from different
• parts of text (or
• books)

• On My Own
• using experiences
• to answer question

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• I wonder?
• Choose a book, turn the pages and WONDER
• Write I wonder (about animals)?
• Wonder and Wander in the books!

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1. I wonder...
2. what horses eat?
3. where horses live?
4. how horses help people?

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Change Over Time Life Cycle of a Tree
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Change Over Time Life Cycle of a Tree
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Finding Important Information Vocabulary
Words And Concepts (WAC) A B C D
E F G H I J
K L M N O P
Q R S T U V W
X Y Z Reading Strategy
Determining Importance
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Category What is it?
Properties Describe it.
Comparison What is it like?

Illustrations What are some examples?
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The Frayer Model
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The Frayer Model
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The Other Half of the QAR

• David
• Right There
• What did David do as soon as he saw the clock?
• What type of shirt did David put on?
• Think and Search
• What did David look for before he left the house?
• What steps did David take to get ready to leave
  the house?
• Author and Me
• Where was David headed that morning?
• What time of day was David getting ready to go?
• On My Own
• Should parents wake their children up for school?

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Cutting Up With Facts
Features
Cows have four stomachs. They eat grass
Ostriches have long nails.
Frogs pushes their stomach out of their body when
if it eats something bad.
Rabbits eat their droppings. Rabbits eat grass.
Baboons live together in troups.
The starfish stomach goes out of its body and
into the shellfish
Behaviors
Cobras puff out their necks to look bigger.
Whales can talk to each other.
Chameleons change colors to hide.
Meercats stand guard to warn of danger.
Ostriches can run 40 miles an hour. It can kick
its enemies.
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What can we infer?
Cows have four stomachs. They eat grass
Ostriches have long nails.
Frogs pushes their stomach out of their body when
if it eats something bad.
Rabbits eat their droppings. Rabbits eat grass.
The starfish stomach goes out of its body and
into the shellfish
The cheeta has a spotted coat.
Animal features
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What can we infer?
Cobras puff out their necks to look bigger.
Whales can talk to each other.
Chameleons change colors to hide.
Meercats stand guard to warn of danger.
Ostriches can run 40 miles an hour. It can kick
its enemies.
Baboons live together in troups.
Animal behaviors
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Inferential Thinking
ABCs of Inferring A B C D E
F G H I J
K L M N O P Q
R S T U V W X
Y Z Reading Strategy Inferential
Thinking
Animal Survival
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Emily Alford [phone] ealford_at_ncisc.org