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List of contents
Acknowledgments
About the Author
PART 1: Small Steps into Story
Introduction
Foundations of This Approach
Chapter One: Teach Text Structure with Mood Structure
Traditional Text Structure Teaching
A Bottom-Up Approach
The Solution: The Mood Structures
Mood Structure: A Closer Look
Chapter Two: Determining Mood as a Critical Reading Skill
How Moods Show Up in Stories
The Access Lenses in Action
Chapter Three: Using Mood and Mood Structure to Bolster Comprehension During Reading
What Do We Want Students to Pay Attention To?
Using the Three Key Questions to Set a Purpose for Reading
Chapter Four: Using the Mood Structures for Summarizing and Identifying Themes After Reading
Using Moods and Mood Structures to Lean Into Symbolism
Using the Terms Helpers and Harmers to Simplify Symbolism
Chapter Five: An Instructional Sequence that Connects Reading and Writing
Our Instructional Sequence
Clearly Connecting the Reading and Writing Connection
Research on Integrating Reading and Writing Instruction
PART 2: Lessons
Introduction
Lesson Layout
The Reading Lessons
The Very First Lesson: Checking for the Understanding of Negative and Positive Moods
Reading Lesson 1: Noticing Mood Structures When Reading
Reading Lesson 2: Look for the Helpers
Reading Lesson 3: Noticing Moods When They Are Directly Stated
Reading Lesson 4: Using the Access Lenses to Infer Moods When Moods Are Shown
Reading Lesson 5: Introducing the Concept of Harmers
Reading Lesson 6: Three Key Questions That Readers Should Always Be Asking
Reading Lesson 7: Making Predictions
Reading Lesson 8: Making Text-to-Text Connections Based on Mood or Mood Structure
Reading Lesson 9: Harmers Turned Helpers
Reading Lesson 10: Generating Themes Through Moods and the Reasons for Those Moods
Reading Lesson 11: Helpers and Harmers as Symbols
Reading Lesson 12: The Three Ingredients of Story
Reading Lesson 13: Using the Three Ingredients of Story to Summarize
Reading Lesson 14: Using the Three Ingredients of Story and the Mood Structures to Summarize
The Writing Lessons
Writing Lesson 1: Generating Workable Story Ideas
Writing Lesson 2: A Reading and Writing Lesson to Help Students Generate Story Ideas
Writing Lesson 3: Showing the Mood With the Access Lenses
Writing Lesson 4: Including Inner Thoughts
Writing Lesson 5: Using Dialogue to Help Present Moods, Reasons for the Moods, and Events
Four Versions of a Story
Teaching the Opening of "The Catch": Version 1-4
PART 3: Starter Texts and Full-Text Deconstructions
Introduction
Starter Texts
Full-Text Deconstructions
Finding Your Own Resources
THE STARTER TEXTS
"Playing Outside"
"Reading Time"
"Cooper" (Five-Panel Comic)
"Cooper" (Six-Panel Comic)
The Kissing Hand
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
"One Sad Simba"
Henry's Freedom Box
Thank You, Mr. Falker
Mr. Wayne's Masterpiece
Stone Angel
Each Kindness
Frindle
"The First Day"
FULL-TEXT DECONSTRUCTIONS
The Rain Came Down
The Dot
Ish
"Taco Head"
The Great Penguin Rescue
"A Howlin' Success"
Blank Deconstruction Form
References
Index
About the author
Trevor Bryan loves stories. He has been exploring them for decades. Through this exploration, Trevor has forged some unique insights that help students to read and write. These insights have led to collaborations with the Princeton University Art Museum, author and illustrator Jarrett Lerner, and best-selling author and illustrator Peter H. Reynolds and his education company FableVision Learning. Trevor has been an art teacher in New Jersey for over 25 years. His first book, The Art of Comprehension: Exploring Visual Texts to Foster Comprehension, Conversation and Confidence, was published in 2019 by Stenhouse Publishers. Trevor enthusiastically presents and shares his work with teachers and schools throughout the country whenever he gets the chance.
