Genre+Reformulation

Genre Reformulation or Text Reformulation ===To improve comprehension, synthesize information, get kids back into text to remember better, great to use for a review for a test, you can use this to have students show what they learned, after reading===

ABC Book ( Using the same Christopher Columbus passage to an After Reading )

 * What can we do that gets kids back into the text bc the best way to improve comprehension is to reread. If you get them back in the text they will make better sense of it and it will stick with them better.
 * The letters can be words that the article implies as long as you defend it.
 * Now write A,B,C, etc. down the side of a page
 * So C might be for Christopher because he discovered America
 * N is for Native Americans because they lost their land
 * O is for oppressed bc we oppressed the Indians
 * P is for potatoes which we taught the Indians to grow
 * Q is for the quiver the Indians used to carry their arrows in
 * R is for

In science you can create a book on what you have learned. It does not have to be a real book, but can be is to bring students back into the text and giving students something to discuss

To make the ABC book a little harder you can change the pattern from an ABC book to another common book that provides relationships such a To discuss: Don’t ask kids to just read their list. Instead ask, “Rebecca, what did you have for letter D (she responds) and Marcey what did you have for the letter D?” Then you discuss why you chose those letters.

Q is for duck because a duck says Quack

 * This is **good for teaching Cause and Effect**
 * Using C Columbus pattern: A is for Spice Island bc that is where Columbus thought he was going when he discovered America. B is for treaties bc that's what was Broken when…
 * C is for Italian bc that is what C Columbus was or C is for disease bc the brought the Common Cold
 * D is for Native Americans because of the Deceit they committed

Brown Bear Brown Bear what do you see?

 * Columbus Columbus what do you see, I see land in front of me
 * Land land what do you see I see tom corn and pot coming out of me
 * Veggies veggies what do you c I c Eurp learning to grow me
 * Europeans Europeans how did you cope We coped by

Don't do it with every text but you can use it with parts of a book and use it occasionally

Use with EXPOSITORY text to get kids to think more closely to what they are reading. Places in our head where we stop and say "Really" During reading prompt. As they read they find info that surprised them, tell where they found it and why it surprised them and what does it suggest.

“LEARNING TAKES PLACE ON A SEA OF TALK” KB