Reading Strategies for All

Content AreasSharon Thurman

andJeanette Barreiro

Agenda Reading Strategies Anticipation Guide—Click

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Best Practice Methods Jigsaw

Poll: You decide (Think-Pair-Share)

Other Strategies

Q & A

Anticipation Guide Benefits:

Activates prior knowledge Requires readers to make predictions Engages important issues that will come up in the

reading Has readers enter a text thinking Should only take about 6-8 minutes of class time

Have students respond to four to six questions or statements using a true/false, yes/no, or agree/disagree format.  

These should be big and open-ended. Use words like “always” and “never” to make them more extreme. 

Anticipation Guide You can discuss these using a

think/pair/share format or go straight to the reading passage.  

After reading, return to the anticipation guide to see if students still agree with original answers.

**Lots of these can be found on the Internet—you don’t have to create one from scratch!!!***

Jigsaw Benefits:

Time saver—”divide and conquer” method allows students to hear oral summaries instead of reading everything

Forces readers to “reread” for the big ideas/reactions/ connections

Works with textbook chapters or articles Students are divided into small groups.  Before

meeting in groups, they read their assigned passage or article, then fill out a jigsaw form which asks them to mark  important parts of the text, write three big ideas, and three reactions/connections.  

Jigsaw Next they meet with their group members,

compare notes, and come to consensus on the big ideas and reactions/connections.  

Each small group shares these with the whole class; this gives everyone an opportunity to hear the summaries about several texts or sections of a textbook chapter.

During the group presentations, listeners should take notes in order to understand the sections they were not responsible for reading.

Poll Everywhere Benefits

Anonymous—gets the readers actual opinion, not the popular opinion.

Quick Can be converted into a Wordle to see

what similar words crop up the most Link to Your Opinion poll: Code:

Think-Pair-Share Benefits—

Having time to write things out prior to discussion helps students feel comfortable participating

Working in pairs forces readers to actively discuss instead of relying on the dominating discussers in whole-class discussion

You can be creative with this strategy. Check out this LINK

Think-Pair-Share Have readers think and write on their own

prior to discussion (eg, Your Opinion polleverywhere, QuickWrite, Moodle Feedback, Ning, Edmodo)

Discuss ideas with partner—be creative with pairing up students

Share pair’s main points with entire group

Wordle Benefits

Easy to use Linked to many different websites—even

Facebook statuses! The more a word appears in the text, the larger

it gets on the Wordle. This will help you see the words that are mentioned most often in the poll/answer. This shows both common understanding and common misconceptions.

Great to use with new vocabulary—allowing students to define new words without a dictionary.

Other Strategies for Content Area

Reading Before Reading

Brainstorming—Webbing, Wordle, Bubbl.us, Stixy, ReadWriteThink.org interactives

Anticipation Guide List-Sort-Label--In small groups, students take

a set of key terms (8-15) selected by the teacher and sort them into categories.  (Optional) They can determine a “gist” statement to predict what they believe is a summary of the text.  Finally, they can list what they hope to discover or questions based on the words they did not understand.

Other Strategies for Content Area

Reading During Reading Coding Text/Post-It Response (using Adobe

Reader)--Give the students a few codes to use while reading.  If the text is in a textbook, the codes can be written on post-it notes.  For example: ✔ Confirms what you thought ? Confusing ! very important  → something new or interesting

Other Strategies for Content Area

Reading During Reading

Double Entry Journal--Students take notes as they read.  The right column is for important ideas from the text.  The left column is for personal thoughts, questions, confusions, reflections, or reactions.

Jigsaw Literature Circles—Using nonfiction

tradebooks, textbooks, or articles

Other Strategies for Content Area

Reading After Reading

It Says, I Say, and So—Teacher poses three or four questions that require students to draw inferences rather than just find information in the text. It Says—summarizing text I Say—writing their own thinking about the

questions posed And So—drawing a conclusion

Other Strategies for Content Area

Reading After Reading

Written Conversation—Pairs of students write short notes back and forth to each other about a text, lecture, video, or experiment. They trade notes/e-mails about every 2-3 minutes WITHOUT TALKING. After passing notes/e-mails 2-3 times, allow them to discuss aloud with their partners. Then have a whole-class discussion.

Think-Pair-Share

Questions? Contact Jeanette Barreiro (Language Arts

Digital Curriculum Developer)

Contact Sharon Thurman (Literacy Staff Developer) here:

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Reading strategies:http://www.slideshare.net/runkled/content-area-reading-strategies

FROM TEACHING THAT MAKES SENSEhttp://www.ttms.org/content_area_reading/content_area_reading.htm

Info on writing in reference chart form:  http://www.ttms.org/PDFs/15%20Organizers%20v001%20(Full).pdf

PRINT RESOURCES Subjects Matter: Every Teacher’s Guide to

Content-Area Reading by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman

Teaching the Best Practice Way: Methods that Matter K-12 by Harvey Daniels and Marilyn Bizar

When Kids Can’t Read What Teachers Can Do by Kylene Beers