OSSLT PREP: From Here to There

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OSSLT PREP From Here to There
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Agenda

• Session 1Reading Selections (25 minutes)
• Explicit Implicit READING (Gut check)
• Read Hadfield spacewalk giant step for Canada
• Questions give us directions
• Mapping out answers
• Groupstorm
• Modeling an answer

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Explicit Reading

• Reading is not limited to books.
• Every movie, T.V. program, and video game asks
  you to read
• The Literacy Test asks you to read words and use
  skills that YOU use everyday
• Example 1

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Explicit Information

• explicit
• Explicit means
• leaving no question as to meaning or intent
• Watch the clip again. What EXPLICIT information
  is presented?
• Example 1

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Implicit Information

• implicit
• Implicit means
• capable of being understood from something else
  though unexpressed (CONNECTIONS)
• OR

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What does this mean?
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What does this mean?
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Why is this funny?

• Example 2

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Inference

• When you read between the lines you are doing
  what is called INFERENCE.
• More to the point, when you understand why the
  scene with the Gingerbread Man is funny you are
  reading between the lines.
• You infer ALL THE TIME, EVERYDAY.

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Inference

• I ask you for a glass of water.
• Why?

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Inference

• A man gets on a bus. What might be implied by
  each of the following?
• He ran to catch the bus.
• He is carrying a suitcase.
• He asks the driver for change of a 100 bill.

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Reading Selection 1

• Reading is a CONVERSATION if you dont
  communicate with the reading then youre missing
  the point youre missing the conversation

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Reading Selection 1

• While reading mark the selection upcircle,
  highlight, underline, jot notes in the margins
• This will save you time when you go to answer the
  questions
• Read the selection Hadfield spacewalk giant step
  for Canada

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Reading SelectionWritten ResponseThe Question
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Question

• The question tells you where in the text to go
  and find the answer. The question is a map.

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Location

• Location is the place in the reading where the
  information youre being asked for can be found.

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Answer

• The answer is in the text in either an EXPLICIT
  way (first Canadian to walk in space
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• in an IMPLICIT way (That takes your breath
  away.)

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Organize

• When you have finished exploring the location you
  will have a few examples that you will use in
  your written response.
• You will want to put them in an order that allows
  you to communicate your ideas without being too
  simplistic, or too repetitive.

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Respond

• Once the information is organized your answer
  should tell a little story, shed a little insight
  (seeing into the question), and display a little
  thinking.

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Jones Sample Response

• Question Explain how you would feel if you did
  what Chris Hadfield did. Use information from
  this selection and your own ideas to support your
  answer.
• This is a hard question because it has two parts
  and you need to deal with the second part to
  respond to the first.

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What did Chris Hadfield do?

• Title -- spacewalk
• Paragraph 1 -- walk in
  space
• Paragraph 3 -- seven-hours
• Paragraph 4 -- installed Canada arm
• Paragraph 5 -- tether
• Paragraph 6 -- four years training

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Imagine

• Where do we start with how you might feel?
• Imagine Four years of practice in preparation
  for a seven-hour space walk, the first in
  Canadian history from pool to outerspace --
  YOU
• Thats me and my dad

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Response

• If I were to walk in Chris Hadfields moonboots,
  in space, for seven-hours, I would be floating.
  To see earth from afar, to swim amongst the
  stars, to occupy space untouched but by few oh,
  to be truly discovering. Four years of
  sacrifice, of training when the return is freedom
  at the end of a tether in the almighty universe.
  That is experience.

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What Jones did

• Made connections amongst the information to
  imagine a picture that involved me.
• Created relationships amongst words and ideas.

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But is it right?

• I had to ask. So I did. I asked Mrs. Kessler.
• I asked Do you think that I need to speak about
  being the first Canadian in space? Or, installing
  the new Canadian Arm 2? Or, how important such a
  Canadian first is?

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Mrs. Kesller is smart

• She said, No.
• That means Im right, right?
• But why?

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In the Written Response

• There are multiple possibilities for the written
  response. The person grading your test is
  looking for big ideas, details, connections,
  vocabulary, thought to audience, and form.
• Its about what you write and the quality of that
  writingthe content, if thoughtful, is right.
• Do a gut check. If you have answered the
  question, you have answered the question.

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Tomorrows Agenda

• Session 2Reading Selections (25 minutes)
• Explicit Implicit READING (Gut check)
• Reading for SUMMARY
• Read Footwear Favourites The Story of
  Sneakers
• Questions give us directions
• Mapping out answers
• Groupstorm
• Modeling an answer