Introductions
• Kathy Arminio– MAARS Monroe 2-Orleans
BOCES
• Kathy Hoppe– Science Support K-12
Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
• Agenda
What do strategic learners do?
• Read this paragraph on your own and develop a title for the paragraph
Why is it important to teach literacy skills in Science classes?
• Promotes thinking
• Allows students to discern
• Improves results on exams
• Preparation for success in college
• Helps students become strategic learners
What is a strategic learner?
• Strategic Learners: self select effective learning strategies and assess their own progress
Types of strategies
• Pre-Reading
• During Reading
• Post Reading
• Other Categories for Grouping Strategies
Key to helping students read: Teach the literacy strategies
• If you hand them a template, it simply becomes a worksheet
• Think about how you want students to think about the content?
• Help students help themselves– Consider Reading Levels
Pre and During Reading• Think Aloud Reading Strategy
– Helping students read science textbooks
– LE Example• Anticipation Guide
– Sample• Figuring Out What It Means• Just For Chem Lab• Stop and Spin
– Article on Ozone• Vocabulary Survey• Focused Free Write• Word Splash
– Gallery Walk• THEIVES Practice• LUNCH
Make and Take
• Choose one strategy and develop a lesson using an article/text that you will use in your class before we meet again (4/23)
• Come back on 4/23 with student work to share– One exemplar– One meeting standards– One not meeting standards
During and Post-Reading• Play-Doh Strategy• Brainstorming
– Facts and Questions• Concept Mapping
– Activity Instructions– Template
• Analogies• Know/Don’t Know: That’s the
Question• Shed Some Light On The
Subject• Summary Pyramid• Brain-Writing Pool • 3-2-1 Send Off
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