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Summarizing Using the RAN Folder


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 * RAN - Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction** is an instructional strategy to use when covering nonfiction text. Students are given a folder to record information on stickie notes. The folder is interactive and allows students to adjust their learning.


 * Folder categories:**
 * 1) What I Know
 * 2) Confirmed
 * 3) Misconceptions
 * 4) New Information
 * 5) Wonderings

** What I Think I Know **
 * Students state information they think is correct about the topic.
 * This section allows the reader to acknowledge that not ALL background information is accurate, it allows for approximation of knowledge.

** Confirmed ** · Students research and confirm their findings as they read through the text. · This section confirms prior knowledge, it allows the students to say, “Yes, I was right.” · If we only take student’s predictions and prior thinking before reading the text, not too often do students go back into the text to confirm it based on what they have just read.

** Misconceptions ** · Students research to discard prior knowledge. · Facts presented by the author might be different from their prior knowledge.

** New Information ** · This area is for new information we are learning · Students gather literal understandings that were not part of their knowledge.

** Wonderings ** · Students raise information based on the new information gathered. · New information allows us to raise questions //during// and //after// they read.

**Curriculum Connections:**

 * Grade 3:**[[file:Nonfiction Reading and Writing gr 3.docx]]
 * Grade 5:**[[file:Nonfiction Reading and Writing Grade 5.docx]]

Outcome CC5.4
==Use a writing process to experiment with and produce multi-paragraph narrative (including stories that contain dialogue), expository (including reports, explanations, letters, and requests), and persuasive (including letters) compositions that clearly develop topic and provide transitions for the reader. ==


 * Indicators: **
 * Write clear multi-paragraph compositions (e.g., three to five paragraph report or essay of at least 300 words) that focus on a central idea, reflect awareness of the audience(s) and purpose(s), contain clear introductions and conclusions, and include paragraphs in a logical sequence.
 * Select and flexibly use appropriate strategies (before, during, and after) to communicate meaning when writing.
 * Write expository compositions that establish a topic, include important ideas or events in a logical order, provide details and transitional expressions that clearly link one paragraph to another, and offer a concluding paragraph that summarizes important ideas.
 * Write expository reports that explore key ideas, issues, or events in response to questions that direct an investigation, establish a controlling idea or topic sentence, and develop the topic with simple facts, details, examples, and explanations.
 * ======Use various note-making strategies (paraphrasing, summarizing, highlighting, graphic organizers, outlining) to glean information and ideas for expository or informational writing. ======

Stead, Tony (2006). **Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonficiton K-5**. Pembroke Publishers, Ont, Can.