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Making Deep Sense of Informational Texts
A Framework for Strengthening Comprehension in Grades 6–12
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.
Benefits
- 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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: 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 Two: Teaching the Deep Sense Approach
Chapter 3: Helping Adolescent Students Regain Their Reading Confidence
Chapter 4: Integrating Strategy Instruction That Works
Chapter 5: Leading Text-Centered Discussions
Chapter 6: Reinforcing Strategies With Shared Info-Text Studies
Part Three: 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
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Chapter 2: A Strategic Approach to Improving Comprehension
Chapter 8: Prepare to Read
Chapter 11: Consolidate Learning
Appendix A
Appendix B
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Chapter 3: Helping Adolescent Students Regain Their Reading Confidence
- Overview: Making Deep Sense of Info-Texts
Chapter 7: Focus on Meaning Making
- Learning Guide: Focus Your Mind
- Learning Guide: Talk About Texts
Chapter 8: Prepare to Read
- Learning Guide: Preview Texts
- Learning Guide: Determine the Text Structure
- Deep Sense Approach Resource: Determine the Text Structure
Chapter 9: Read Actively
- Learning Guide: Annotate Texts
- Learning Guide: Check for Understanding
- An Example: How You Might Check for Understanding as You Read
- Learning Guide: Fix Confusion and Fill Gaps
Chapter 10: Evaluate Arguments and Evidence
- Learning Guide: Trace the Reasoning
- An Example: Trace the Reasoning in a Student Column
- Learning Guide: Consider Perspectives
- Learning Guide: Evaluate Evidence
- Learning Guide: Analyze Rhetoric
Chapter 11: Consolidate Learning
- Learning Guide: Summarize Texts
- An Example: Apply the Summarize Texts Strategy With a Science Article
- Learning Guide: Synthesize Across Texts
- Learning Guide: Share Learning
- An Example: A Power Notes Outline for a Presentation
Appendix A
- Sample Strategy Lesson: Teaching the Annotation Strategy
Appendix B
- Shared Info-Text Study (SITS) Example 1: A Middle School Science SITS
- Shared Info-Text Study (SITS) Example 2: A Freshman English SITS
SUGGESTED RESOURCES
Books
- Kizart, C. C. (2025). Beyond implicit and explicit bias: Strategies for healing the root causes of inequity in education. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
Websites
Introduction
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 11
