Post on 12-May-2015
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Amy Keith – Secondary Literacy Coach
akeith@nrms.k12.nc.us
Nash Rocky Mount Public Schools
Increasing Comprehension with BDA
Reading Strategies/Tools
Food for Thought…. "Adolescents entering the adult world in the 21st century
will read and write more than at any other time in human history. They will need advanced levels of literacy to perform their jobs, run their households, act as citizens, and conduct their personal lives." -- Richard Vaca, author of Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum
They (students) actively seek the wide, deep, and thoughtful engagement with high-quality literary and informational texts that builds knowledge, enlarges experience, and broadens worldviews
*Common Core Standards – English Language Arts
Proficient Readers…
Activate relevant, prior knowledge…
Create visual and other sensory images from text…
Draw Inferences from text to form conclusions…
Ask questions of themselves, the authors, and the text they
read…
Determine the most important ideas in a text…
Synthesize what they read…
Reading with Meaning - Debbie Miller (2002)
OUR GOAL FOR TODAY:
“We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also
equip our people to walk through those doors.”
-- Lyndon B. Johnson
10 Tools and Strategies to Increase
Comprehension and Keep
Students Engaged
Tool #1 Picture Splash/Word Splash
Tool #2 EduCreations
Educreations - Teach what you know. Learn what you don't.
Tool # 3 Discovery Education and Voice
Threads
Rechenka's Egg
VoiceThread
To view our VoiceThread click on the following link:
http://voicethread.com/share/3030505/
VoiceThread Instructions Create your slide(s) using any program: Word, Publisher, PowerPoint,
ActivInspire, etc…
Save your file as a PDF.
Once on the VoiceThread website, you will need to click ‘Create’
Upload your PDF file(s)
Once uploaded, you can choose to share the presentation with others.
If you’re doing this in a classroom, where students have their own
accounts, you will need to do this.
Once others have access to your presentation, you are ready to
comment (voice, text, video, or phone).
Tool #4 Glogster
http://www.glogster.com/coachamy/anansi-example/g-
6l16c46vka7b14tkkn5saa0
Tool #5 Paideia Seminar
“Research shows that when
Students talk about their
Reading, they become more
Motivated to read.”
Differentiating Reading Instruction – Laura Robb
Tool #6 Thinking Maps
Tool # 7 Poll Everywhere With Poll Everywhere – A student can
text or use the web to respond to a
question. The circle map was a result of a
poll everywhere question : “Name a Healthy
Habit?”
Poll Everywhere Instructions
Create a free account at https://www.polleverywhere.com/signup
Log in with user name and password
On home page find "create your first poll"
Enter Poll question
Decide "how my audience will respond?" (Multiple choice or open ended)
Select Create
New screen opens with directions for audience.
Sit and wait for the responses to come in.
Tool #10 Anticipation Guides
Extra Tool: Metacognitive Markers
Shared by NNHS teacher – Nash Rocky Mount Schools
More Ideas
QR Codes
Picture Books
Jigsaw Activities/Chunking
Quick Writes
Two Stars and a Wish
Think-Pair-Share
RIVET
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