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Text Sets in Action
Pathways Through Content Area Literacy
Today’s teachers have a strong desire to find creative ways to engage students in a student-centered curriculum that prioritizes their authentic questions. But with trends, standards, and district mandates so abundant, true passion for discovery and deep appreciation for knowledge can sometimes seem elusive.
Fortunately, a ‘text set’ approach offers the possibility of igniting curiosity in young learners, opening pathways to explore a given topic through reading multiple texts, and achieving lasting understanding along the way.
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In Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy, Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes reveal how text sets can prompt serious thinking far more effectively than a textbook or any single text. As the authors explain, exploring many texts leads teachers and learners to ‘think more deeply, empathize more fully, and take action more deliberately.’ Teachers who adopt this approach find that the texts’ various lenses enable students not only to meet curriculum standards but also to experience lasting engagement and a spirit of inquiry across the disciplines.
This book will:
- Move beyond what is merely required and inspire integrated, customized curriculum
- Demonstrate how teachers can build on students’ interests and questions
- Provide resources and suggestions for designing text sets – books, news articles, websites, YouTube videos, primary source documents, and works of art
- Offer logical and creative ways to sequence texts
- Demonstrate how text sets can scaffold, differentiate, and extend students’ learning
- Present specific invitations for designing, curating, and juxtaposing multi-genre, multi-model texts, accessible for at-home learning as well as in classrooms
- Share a panoply of student work in response to learning with text sets.
When texts are intentionally sequenced and juxtaposed with one another, readers discover different ways to see and explain the world around them. Immersion into text sets fosters critical thinking and appreciation for different points of view, which is crucial in nurturing a respect for diversity and preserving democracy.
About the Author(s)
Table of Contents
PART I DEFINING AND DESIGNING TEXT SETS
Introduction: Why Teach with Text Sets?
Text Sets and Our Classrooms
Mary Ann’s Story
Erika’s Story
Teaching with Text Sets Is Both Practical and Aspirational
It’s Practical
Standards and Beyond
Reading Comprehension
Disciplinary Literacies
Critical Thinking
Taking Time Saves Lives!
It’s Aspirational
Considering Multiple Perspectives
Co-constructing Understanding
Engagement
Authors, Artists, Makers
CHAPTER 1 Text Sets as Tools to Dig Deeper and to Consider Content
Texts as Multiple Voices in the Classroom
What Is a Multimodal, Multigenre Text Set?
Designing a Text Set
Establish Goals: What do you want for your students?
Find Texts: What are the best texts to help you meet your goals?
Trade Books
Digital Texts
Identify Roles: Is a text a scaffold, an immersion, or an extension of learning?
Scaffolds
Immersions
Extensions
What are our instructional models?
Duet
Sunburst
Tree Ring
Solar System
Mountain
Create New Texts: What are the new texts created by students?
Taking Notes
Creating New Texts
Conclusion
CHAPTER 2 How Do Text Sets Cultivate Disciplinary
Literacy and Critical Thinking?
Disciplinary Literacy
Genre, Voice, and Theme in Language Arts
Disciplinary Literacies in Language Arts
Building Curriculum in Language Arts
Selecting Texts for Text Sets in Language Arts
Perspective and Representation in Social Studies
Disciplinary Literacies in Social Studies
Building Curriculum in Social Studies
Selecting Texts for Text Sets in Social Studies
Evidence and Inquiry in Science
Disciplinary Literacy in Science
Building Curriculum in Science
Selecting Texts for Text Sets in Science
Problem Solving and Visualizing Data in Mathematics
Disciplinary Literacy in Mathematics
Building Curriculum in Mathematics
Selecting Texts for Text Sets in Mathematics
Critical Thinking Within the Disciplines
PART II EXAMPLES
How to Read Part Two: Examples
CHAPTER 3 Genre and Theme in Language Arts: Examining Life Story Through Picture Book Biography
Establish Goals: What do you want for your students?
Find Texts: What are the best texts to help you meet your goals?
Books
Digital Texts
Organize Texts for Instruction: How can we arrange texts for critical thinking?
Scaffold: Identify Biography
Immersion: Exploring the Genre of Picture Book Biography
Characterization
Context
Theme
Back Matter
Extension: The Processes of Biographers
Create New Texts: What are the new texts created by students?
Becoming Biographers
Mentor Processes
Notes for Next Year
Voices from the Classroom
Comprehensive Text Sets
CHAPTER 4 Perspectives on the American Revolution
Establish Goals: What do you want for your students?
Find Texts: What are the best texts to help you meet your goals?
Books
Digital Texts
Synthesizing Our Consideration of Texts
Organize Texts for Instruction: How can we arrange texts for critical thinking?
Scaffold: Introducing the Critical Thinking
Immersion: Exploring Multiple Perspectives
Core Text: King George, What Was His Problem? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About the American Revolution
Text Sets on Perspectives
Note Taking
Historical Fiction Literature Circles
Extension: Conducting Independent Research
Create New Texts: What are the new texts created by students?
Building a Collective Timeline
Crafting an Interview
Writing Colonial Newspapers
Notes for Next Year
Voices from the Classroom
Comprehensive Text Sets
CHAPTER 5 Evidence and Inquiry in Science: Adaptations and Biological Evolution
Establish Goals: What do you want for your students?
Find Texts: What are the best texts to help you meet your goals?
A Balance of Experiences and Texts
Books
Digital Texts
Mentor Texts for Writing
Organize Texts for Instruction: How can we arrange texts for critical thinking?
Scaffold: Comparing Plant and Animal Life Cycles
Plant Life Cycles
Animal Life Cycles
Immersion: Survival and Heredity—Traits and Adaptations
Parent-Offspring Relationships
Characteristics to Help Some Living Things Survive Better Than Others in an Environment
Bird Adaptations
Extension: Survival Over Time—Investigating Biological Evolution
Change Over Time in the Same Geological Place
The Dinosaur-Bird Connection
Create New Texts: What are the new texts created by students?
Student Research
Composing New Texts: Organizers, Models, and Mentor Texts
Notes for Next Year
Voices from the Classroom
Comprehensive Text Sets
CHAPTER 6 Representation in Multiplication and Nonfiction
Establish Goals: What do you want for your students?
Find Texts: What are the best texts to help you meet your goals?
Books
Digital Texts
Organize Texts for Instruction: How can we arrange texts for critical thinking?
Exploring Nonfiction in Language Arts
Scaffold: Big Ideas About Nonfiction
Immersion: Exploring Survey Books, Concept Books, and Life Stories
Extension: Researching Topics Using Nonfiction
Exploring the Function and Application of Multiplication in Mathematics
Scaffold: Word Problems Based on Information in Popular Nonfiction Picture Books
Immersion: Representations of Multiplication in Infographics
Extension: Using Infographics to Apply Student Understanding of Research and Multiplication
Create New Texts: What are the new texts created by students?
Creating Texts in Language Arts
Note Taking
Writing and Illustrating Nonfiction Books
Creating Texts in Math
Infographics
Notes for Next Year
Voices from the Classroom
Comprehensive Text Sets
PART III INVITATIONS
How to Read Part Three: Invitations
CHAPTER 7 Language Arts Invitations: How Does Figurative Language Shape Our Reading and Writing?
Introduction
Scaffold: Introducing Figurative Language
Duet Model: Figurative Language in Fiction and Nonfiction
Duet Model: Figurative Language in Fiction and Nonfiction About the Natural World
Immersion: Going Deeper with Figurative Language
Solar System Model: Figurative Language in Multiple Genres and Modalities
Figurative Language Detectives: Creating a New Text Set
Create New Texts: Advertising Directors, Writers, and Designers
Solar System Model: Figurative Language Author Study
Extension: Exploring a Mentor Text and Mentor Processes
Tree Ring Model: Composing Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
Core Text: Winter Bees and Other Poems of the Cold
Middle Ring: Joyce Sidman’s Mentor Processes
Outer Ring: Rick Allen’s Mentor Processes
Conclusion
Comprehensive Text Set
CHAPTER 8 Social Studies Invitations: How Does Activism
Lead Us to a “More Perfect Union” in Our Democracy?
Introduction
Essential Questions
Scaffold: Introducing Activists from History and Contemporary Life
Immersion: Exploring the Stories of Individual Activists
Sunburst Modelof Individual Activitists
Sunburst Model: Hiawatha, Member of the Mohawk Nation, Before the Fourteenth Century
Sunburst Model: Elizabeth Freeman, Self-Emancipated
Woman, 1780–1783
Sunburst Model: Sarah Roberts, African American Student, 1847–1855
Sunburst Model: Sylvia Mendez, Mexican American Student, 1945–1947
Sunburst Model: Anna May Wong, Chinese American Actress, 1940s
Sunburst Model: Ella Baker, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, Civil Rights Activists, 1960
Sunburst Model: Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Women’s Rights Activist and Supreme Court Justice, 1970s-2020
Sunburst Model: Dolores Huerta, 1962 to Present and Cesar Chavez, 1962–1993, Labor Rights Activists
Sunburst Model: Gloria Steinem, Women’s Rights Activist, 1960s to Present
Extension: Exploring Malala Yousafzai, Contemporary Activist for Girls’ Global Education
Solar System Model: Primary and Secondary Sources About Malala’s work
Create New Texts: Student-Created Texts—Becoming Activists
Taking Notes
Taking a Stand: Multigenre, Multimodal Texts
Conclusion
Comprehensive Text Set
CHAPTER 9 Science Invitations: Ocean Interdependencies—How Does the Health of the Ocean Relate to the Health of the Planet?
Introduction
Scaffold: Ocean Habitats
Duet Model: The Importance of Our Oceans—A Pairing of TED Talks
Immersion: Life in the Ocean
Solar System Model: Endangered Ocean Animals
Solar System: Ocean Explorers and Activists
Create New Texts
Extension: A Deeper Exploration—Becoming an Expert on an Ocean Animal
Conclusion
Comprehensive Text Sets
CHAPTER 10 Mathematics Invitations: Geometry and Design—How Is an Architect an Artist?
Introduction
Scaffold: Introducing Architecture as Worldview
Duet Model: Shaping Our World
Immersion: Architects—Their Stories, Their Processes, and Their Creations
Solar System Model: Picture Book Biographies of Architects
Duet Model: Artists Who Shape Landscapes
Solar System Model: Structures, Design Processes, and Construction
Solar System Model: Fictional Books Featuring Kid Designers
Create New Texts
Extension: Designing for Your Community
Conclusion
Comprehensive Text Sets
References
Children’s Literature References
Figure Credits
Index