TEACHING RESOURCE ISBN 10: 1-55448-036-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-55448-036-4 © 2005 Rubicon Publishing Inc. Teacher’s Guide: Faceoff! by Michael Coughlan and Isaac MacEachan ISBN 10: 1-55448-036-1 ISBN 13: 978-1-55448-036-4 All rights reserved. Except for the Reproducible Masters, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a database or retrieval system, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Every reasonable effort has been made to acquire permission for copyright material used in this book. Any errors or omissions called to the Publisher’s attention will be corrected in future printings. Printed in Canada BOLDPRINT is also available in French table of contents BOLDPRINT Student Books ...................................................................... 2 BOLDPRINT Teaching Resource ............................................................... 3 FACEOFF! Literacy Assessment Checklist .................................................................. 4-5 Introducing the Theme ............................................................................... 6 Contents Chart ............................................................................................. 7 Teaching Suggestions for Reading Selections in Faceoff! Stanley Cup Legends Article ............................................................... 8 Flame On! Jarome Iginla — A Role Model Biography .................... 9 Hockey Haiku Poetry ....................................................................... 10 The Last Game Short story ................................................................ 11 Just One of the Guys Article ............................................................. 12 Get Ready for the Crosby Show Article ........................................... 14 Hökyee Graphic story ........................................................................ 15 Can You Beat That? Personal account ............................................. 17 My Mom the Hockey Fan Personal account ................................... 18 Street Hockey Night in … Tokyo? Report ....................................... 20 Do You Have What It Takes? Quiz .................................................. 21 Hockey in the Deep End Article ....................................................... 22 Open Ice Interview ............................................................................ 23 The Game of Our Lives Novel excerpt ............................................. 24 Reproducible Materials 1. Assessment Focus ........................................................................28-29 2. Self-Assessment Profile .................................................................... 30 3. Genre Cards .................................................................................31-47 4. Reproducible Masters .................................................................48-53 #1 T-chart ............................................................................... 48 #2 Organizational Chart ........................................................ 49 #3 Venn Diagram .................................................................. 50 #4 Word Web......................................................................... 51 #5 Character Wheel ............................................................... 52 #6 Storyboard ......................................................................... 53 5. Project Cards .................................................................................... 54 2 BOLDPRINT Teaching Resource BOLDPRINT STUDENT BOOKS The selections and activities in the BOLDPRINT Student Books have been chosen and designed to pose ideas, problems, and situations of immediate and emerging interest to students. The material is presented in visually attractive ways to capitalize on the impact of lively graphics and illustrations in partnership with powerful print text. THEME Each Student Book is organized around a general theme or conceptual cluster because we believe students learn more readily and stay involved when content is presented holistically rather than in isolated segments. Each BOLDPRINT Student Book opens with a specially designed two-page introduction that serves as an invitation to students to think about the theme. The introductions vary from theme statements to poetry to quotations and more. READING SELECTIONS The selections in the BOLDPRINT Student Books were carefully chosen to motivate and involve students emotionally, intellectually, and imaginatively. They encompass a wide selection of genres and formats, including graphic stories, short stories, informational texts, reports, profiles, poems, interviews, scripts, essays, personal commentaries, etc. ACTIVITIES Each reading selection is accompanied by activities that act as scaffolding to support the reading, understanding, and enjoyment of the selection; as well, speaking and writing extension activities lead students beyond the selection into their real-world contexts. Keywords: Words that students might find challenging are highlighted and defined in context at the bottom of each page. Draw these words to the students’ attention and have them use them in some way to consolidate their understanding of the words’ meanings. 4Before Reading Warm Up: These activities prepare students to think about the topic and motivate them to read on. By drawing on background knowledge and inviting discussion, the activities allow students to anticipate and predict the direction and content of the selection. Warm Up activities are usually oral rather than written. 4During Reading Checkpoints: Checkpoints ask students to stop and think about something they have just read. They are used to help students clarify the meaning of difficult words or phrases, or to look at graphic features of the text in order to provide scaffolding for comprehension. Depending on the length of the piece, there may be one to four Checkpoints. Occasionally, there are no Checkpoints (for example, in poems or graphic stories), since stopping to address a Checkpoint could interfere with the reading of the piece. 4 After Reading Wrap Up: These literacy opportunities generally include one activity focused on comprehension and at least one other activity designed to ask the students to move beyond the text. These activities often involve an oral, written, or graphic response related to the theme or action in the piece. Web Connections: In Web Connections, students are encouraged to use technology for learning and are asked to research, communicate with people outside the classroom on the topic, or collaborate to create a product or presentation. BOLDPRINT Teaching Resource 3 BOLDPRINT TEACHING RESOURCE To support teachers’ practice, the BOLDPRINT Teaching Resource offers: 1. A Contents Chart showing for each selection in the Student Book: Genre, Reading Level, Reading and Responding Strategies 2. Information about each reading selection in the Student Book: • genre • the reading level: 4 – accessible; 44 – requires some guidance; 444 – requires focused support The criteria used for assessing the reading level of the selections include: content, line length, length of selection, number of difficult words, applicability to the lives of students, applicability to the curriculum, complexity of ideas, complexity of sentence structure, and graphic support. • summary or description of the selection 3. Suggestions accompany each reading selection to support or extend the Before Reading, Warm Up; During Reading, Checkpoints (in the Teaching Resource, references are numbered); After Reading, Wrap Up. 4. The literacy strategies called for in each activity. 5. Additional activities to use with students after they have read the selection: Revisiting the Text: a series of prompts that teachers can use with students to clarify, explain, modify, and enrich students’ comprehension of the reading selection. Extending the Theme: optional activities that lead students to revisit the selection and extend their learning. 6. Reproducible Masters: graphic organizers, story starters, writing planners, assessment profiles, etc. 7. Project Cards suggesting projects related to the theme of the Student Book. 8. Genre Cards presenting strategies for reading and writing in a particular format. 9. Assessment Opportunities: Teachers have many and varied opportunities to assess student achievement through the reading, writing, and small group discussions which BOLDPRINT activities generate. The tasks students will be involved in present ways to demonstrate what students know, what they can do, and what they value. Open-ended performance-based activities will provide evidence of students’ proficiency or indicate areas where more focus is required for success. Student responses can be collected as data for their portfolios. All the Wrap Up activities following the selections in the BOLDPRINT series provide rich opportunities for teachers to assess their students’ understanding and achievement. In BOLDPRINT Teaching Resources, there are four Assessment Focus sections. Each of the four Assessment Focus examples deals with a different genre and with one of the Wrap Ups following the selection. The reading and responding strategies the students will be expected to use are highlighted. In addition, there are bullets describing the kinds of evidence teachers should be looking for in order to determine how well students