Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts

Author Gwen J. Pauloski introduces four flexible adolescent literacy practices that help secondary students make deeper sense of the complex informational texts they encounter in school and beyond. Adolescent readers learn age-appropriate comprehension strategies and practice applying them as they discuss, analyze, and write about their reading. The author offers strategy learning guides, lesson examples, and planning templates for teachers.

Grades 6–12 teachers, reading specialists, and instructional coaches can use this book to:

• Employ research-based strategies to help students actively engage with informational texts
• Teach students to identify and assess integral arguments, perspectives, and rhetoric
• Challenge students to reconstruct what they learn from a reading in their own words
• Encourage students’ active participation in text-centered class discussions
• Increase students’ motivation and competence when approaching complex texts

Contents:
Part 1: The Case for the Deep Sense Approach
Chapter 1: Why and How Secondary Students Resist Reading Info-Texts
Chapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving Comprehension
Part 2: Teaching the Deep Sense Approach
Chapter 3: Helping Adolescents Regain Their Reading Confidence
Chapter 4: Strategy Instruction That Works
Chapter 5: Leading Text-Centered Discussions
Chapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies (SITS)
Part 3: The Deep Sense Approach Strategies
Chapter 7: Focus on Meaning Making
Chapter 8: Prepare to Read
Chapter 9: Read Actively
Chapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and Evidence
Chapter 11: Consolidate Learning
Appendix A
Appendix B
References and Resources
Index