importance of reading across content areas

Importance of Importance of Reading Across Reading Across Content AreasContent AreasHow can we help our students understand what they read?

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Learning Target:

I understand some reading strategies that can be used to foster understanding for student interactions with texts.

Tea PartyTea PartyDirections:Each person should have one index card.Get up and meet with one person at a time.Share your card with as many people as possible.Listen to others as they read their cards.Discuss how these cards might be related.Return to table when you have heard everyone’s card.

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Group Talk:Group Talk:With your table partners,

speculate on what these cards, collectively, might be about.

Make sure each group member’s voice is heard.

We will share out.

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So B. ItSo B. It by Sarah Weeks by Sarah Weeks

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Silent Tea PartySilent Tea Party

https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/pre-reading-strategies

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3 Types of Prior 3 Types of Prior KnowledgeKnowledge

1. Knowledge about the topic

2. Knowledge about the structure and organization of the text

3. Knowledge about vocabulary

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Frontloading

Reversing the Lesson Triangle Historical design Current design

Assignment

Read

Discussion to see if students read and if they

remember & understand the proper concepts

Frontloadingpre-reading activities: discussion, prediction,

questioning, brainstorming, vocabularyGuided

Active Silent ReadingDiscussio

nto clarify,

reinforce & extend

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•The Teacher first previews the text

•Talk and read around the selection with the students, like a tour guide!

•Note important features

• Make your thinking about the text “transparent”

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WHY SHOULD I READ?WHY SHOULD I READ?How do you respond?

Is literacy valued by the students?

Who are their reading role models?

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HOW TEACHERS SHOULD HOW TEACHERS SHOULD NOTNOT TO ANSWER! TO ANSWER!

You want a good grade don’t you?We have always read this book at

this school.Reading this book/chapter will

make you more culturally literate.This book/chapter is required in

the curriculum/focused instruction guide.

Because I am the teacher and I said so.

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Say SomethingSay SomethingYou will need a partner.Each of you should have a text

and a copy of the rules.Once you have read them, you

may begin.You will have 10 minutes to

complete the activity.

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Online Resources for Online Resources for TextsTextsDogo Newshttp://www.dogonews.com/

Tween Tribunehttp://tweentribune.com/

Tumblereadbles (user: mpls password:login)http://www.tumblebookcloud.com/home.aspx

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