Info Tasks for Successful Learning : Building Skills in Reading, Writing and Research

by Koechlin, Carol

• ISBN13: 9781551381336
• ISBN10: 1551381338
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Pembroke Pub Ltd

Summary

Today's students are confronted with a huge amount of information. To write tests, complete assignments, and even communicate with their peers, students need effective strategies to help them grow as learners. Whether they get their information from books, the Internet, or personal interviews, students need to build skills in reading, writing and research to succeed in school and life in this information age.This time-saving book provides teachers with a tried-and-true process for involving students in becoming information literate. Practical and ready-to-use, the book features more than fifty activities that give students hands-on opportunities to work with information. These activities involve students in manipulating and organizing data as well as making connections with information in all subject areas.Info Tasks for Successful Learningoffers a range of skill-building activities that take students form the low level regurgitation or rewording of ideas to more meaningful, relevant and exciting learning. Each single page task focuses on a micro skill that makes an ideal mini lesson. The micro skills are grouped into the four macro skills that are the basics of information literacy: Evaluating information for relevance and validation; Sorting information to make connections; Working with Information and Testing Ideas; Analyzing and synthesizing information for meaningful conclusions. More than thirty student organizers are included to help students build important strategies for using information. A unique glossary of terms will help teachers and students make better sense of the modern information age.The repertoire of useful strategies in this remarkable book will help students reach higher levels of understanding and achievement.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
David Loertscher's Introduction	p. xvi
Define and Clarify	p. 1
Understand the Research Process	p. 2
Explore a Topic	p. 4
Define a Research Topic	p. 8
Develop Questions	p. 12
Keywords	p. 14
Develop a Plan	p. 16
Locate and Retrieve	p. 23
Search Strategies	p. 24
Locate Resources	p. 28
Skim, Scan and Consider	p. 32
Evaluate Resources	p. 34
Design Surveys	p. 40
Use Primary Sources	p. 46
Select, Process, and Record Data	p. 51
Pre-Reading Strategies	p. 52
Actively Read, View and Listen	p. 56
Select Relevant Data	p. 62
Determine Fact	p. 66
Read Pictures	p. 70
Use Features of Non-Fiction Text	p. 72
Note-Making	p. 76
Legal and Ethical Use of Information and Ideas	p. 82
Analyze	p. 89
Use Organizers	p. 90
Sort	p. 94
Compare	p. 98
Classify	p. 102
Identify and Investigate Patterns and Trends	p. 108
Respond to Text	p. 112
Make Connections	p. 116
Cause & Effect	p. 120
Impact	p. 124
Interpret, Infer, Predict	p. 130
List of Figures
Exploring with Your Senses	p. 7
Target Your Topic	p. 10
Tips for Narrowing a Research Topic	p. 11
Researchometer	p. 18
Research Success	p. 19
Research Log	p. 20
Planning for Research	p. 21
My Best Hits	p. 26
Online Search Plan	p. 27
Resource Check	p. 30
Log of Sources	p. 31
Book Check	p. 37
Web Site Analysis	p. 38
Examine and Evaluate	p. 39
Design a Survey Rubric	p. 42
Interpreting and Evaluating Graphs and Charts	p. 43
Creating a Survey Action Plan	p. 45
Tips for Conducting Interviews	p. 48
Analyzing Primary Sources	p. 49
Think, Read, Decide	p. 54
Pre-Reading Quest	p. 55
RVL Connect	p. 59
Working With Digital Text	p. 60
Web Check	p. 61
Data Check Point	p. 64
Think About It!	p. 65
Linking to Facts and Opinions	p. 69
Using Visual Clues	p. 75
Note-Making Rubric	p. 79
Note-Making Techniques	p. 80
Legal and Ethical Use of Information (teacher prompts)	p. 84
Legal and Ethical Use of Information	p. 86
GO Graphic	p. 93
That's Good; That's Bad	p. 97
What's the Same? What's Different?	p. 100
Charting Comparisons	p. 101
Cross Classification Chart	p. 104
Classified Information	p. 105
Hierarchy Classification	p. 107
Analyzing Patterns and Trends	p. 111
Working with Information	p. 115
All Things Connected	p. 119
Determining the Cause	p. 122
Investigating Cause and Effect	p. 123
Examining Chains of Effects	p. 126
Discovering Impact	p. 127
Discovering Impact (Sample)	p. 128
Analyzing Impact	p. 129
Deductive Reasoning	p. 133
Inductive Reasoning	p. 134
Predicting Impact	p. 135
Plotting Perspective	p. 140
Understanding Perspectives	p. 139
Collaboration Rubric	p. 142
Team Task Prompts	p. 143
Team Work Debriefing	p. 144
Synthesis Chart	p. 148
Synthesis: Gain Perspective and Develop an Argument/Thesis	p. 149
Synthesis: Solve a Problem or Construct a New Hypothesis	p. 150
Synthesis: Make a Judgment or Prediction	p. 151
Synthesis: Draw Conclusions	p. 152
Synthesis: Develop Generalizations	p. 153
Synthesis: Make a Decision	p. 154
Planning for Sharing Rubric	p. 158
Presentation Rubric	p. 159
Real World Roles	p. 160
Planning for Writing Information Text	p. 161
Plans for Sharing Your Research - Part 1	p. 162
Plans for Sharing Research - Part 2	p. 163
Research Success Rubric - Part One	p. 168
Research Success Rubric - Part Two	p. 169
Assessing My Effort	p. 170
My Research Reflections	p. 171
Planning for Improvement	p. 172
Research Project Design	p. 176
Build Your Own - Research Project Template	p. 177
Build Your Own - InfoSkills Template	p. 178
Build Your Own - Long Range Term Planner	p. 179
Documenting Understanding	p. 180
Reflect, Rethink, Redesign	p. 181
Library Media Specialist - An Agent for Collaboration	p. 182
Collaboration Log	p. 183
Let's Chat	p. 184
InfoSkills Matrix (Detailed)	p. 185
InfoSkills Matrix	p. 187
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