importance of reading across content areas
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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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