• Dr. Allen taught high school reading and English for 20 years

• At the University of Central Florida she continued teaching • She is an internationally respected researcher, consultant,

and expert on adolescent literacy• Dr. Allen is the author of several professional development

books including Yellow Brick Roads, It’s Never Too Late, Tools for Teaching Content Literacy, and Inside Words

• She is the author of Recorded Books reading programs Plugged-in to Reading and Plugged-in to Nonfiction

Plugged-in to Nonfiction

Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction

Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning

Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning

The 3-Step Instructional Model

8 Power Strategies1. Content/specialized

vocabulary2. Text features3. Text structures4. Monitoring

understanding5. Previewing text6. Activating background

knowledge7. Questioning8. Noting, organizing,

and retrieving information

Power Strategy Overview

Power Strategy Overview continued …

Power Strategy Overview continued …

Teacher-Directed Teacher-Directed InstructionInstruction

The first step toward engaging adolescent and teenagestudents is teacher-led discussion. The Teacher Guide outlines the carefully chosen Core Text, offering teacher-directed strategy lessons and step-by step guides for classroom implementation. This allows the teacher to model each of the eight power strategies needed to help students negotiate a variety of nonfiction texts.

Core TextsCore Texts

Peer-Supported Peer-Supported LearningLearning

Using the gradual release of responsibility model, teachers shift students from whole-class, teacher-directed instruction to guided learning in small groups: Power Strategy Groups. The combination of stimulating texts and a focus on a specific learning strategy creates an environment that supports students’ success with nonfiction text. After a modeled lesson the teacher can observe students’ progress as they practice the strategy on their own.

Power Strategy TextsPower Strategy Texts

Self-Directed Self-Directed LearningLearning

The final step in the release of responsibility gives students a chance to experience engaging nonfiction on their own. Using the learning strategies encountered in the other two steps, students use a wide variety of supports, including audio, to understand the text. When used with the creative and challenging strategy lessons, Independent Reading books give students the opportunity to become active, involved readers.

Independent Reading TextsIndependent Reading Texts

Everything You Need

• Teacher Guide• Resource Binder• Audio support and print books

– Teacher-Directed Instruction• 24 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies

of the 1 Core Text – Peer-Supported Learning

• 8 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies of the 8 Power Strategy Group Texts

– Self-Directed Learning• 2 print copies and 2 Recorded Books copies

(where applicable) of the Independent Reading Texts (an average of 30 titles/Level)

Everything You Need

continued … • 8 Full-color copies of each of the 8 Power Strategy

Learning Guides• 5 Copies of each of the Independent Reading

Guides• Dr. Allen’s professional development books Tools

for Teaching Content Literacy, Inside Words, and On the Same Page

• CD with pre- and post- assessments and Power Strategy assessments

• Booktalk cards• 2 corrugated cardboard bookshelves

Tools for the Teacher—The Teacher Guide

The Teacher Guide continued …

Implementing the Lessons—The Resource Binder

The Resource Binder contains reproducible versions of all the graphic organizers, handouts, and student activities required to implement Plugged-in to Nonfiction.

Power Strategy Learning Guides

• TEACHERS will:

– Introduce & model the power strategy lesson

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• STUDENTS will:– Discover applications

for the Power Strategy– Explore nonfiction text

using the Power Strategy– Practice the Power

Strategy with peers

• “Go high tech!” provides technology challenges• Group projects for authentic assessment• Multiple-choice and open-ended assessment• “Now You Are in Charge!” guides students through the text

Independent Reading Guides

• Independent Reading Guides include …– Letter to the Reader– Anticipation activity– Specialized vocabulary– Reading for information– Writing activity– Text-to-Text

Connections– Inquiry activity– Multiple-choice and

open-ended questions

Skills and Strategies Matrix• Every text has a skills and strategies matrix located in the

Teacher Guide. Each skill is linked to a particular strategy including … – Reading Strategies - Text Connections– Writing Strategies - Inquiry– Writing Fluency Activities - - Formative Assessment– Content/Specialized - Summative Assessments

Vocabulary Strategies

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