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Navigating the Language of Math: Using Active Reading Strategies

Ann Wolf TeamUP Professional Educator

ann.wolf@cengage.com or awolf5@cnm.edu

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Objectives• Understand the relationship of math

language to reading strategies.

• Experience using some literacy strategies.

• Explore ways to incorporate literacy strategies into a math lesson

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Do your students feel like this?

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Action Steps for Lesson Planning• Decide on Key Concepts

• Provide time for student reflection

• What responses do you want to elicit from students?

• Model strategies for students

• Encourage discussion

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Importance of Reading to Math

[Students]… learn to use language to focus and work

through problems, to communicate ideas coherently and

clearly, to organize ideas and structure arguments, to

extend their thinking and knowledge to encompass other

perspectives and experiences, to understand their own

problem-solving and thinking processes as well as those

of others and to develop flexibility in representing and

interpreting ideas. (Metsisto in Kenney, et.al., 2005)

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Literacy Strategies

• Vocabulary

• Think Aloud

• Guided Reading and Notes

• Questioning Skills

• Strategic Reading

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Vocabulary • Word Categorization – Frayer Model & Verbal

Visual Word Association (VVWA)

• Students understand the concepts

• Discussion – more ideas,

connections and chance to revise

• Connect with text to develop

conceptual understanding.

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Build Vocabulary

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Guided Reading for Vocabulary

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Think Aloud• Literacy strategy designed to help students

monitor comprehension and direct their thinking as they work through the problem solving process.

• With teacher modeling, students are “talked through” the thinking processes.

• Share with students exactly what the instructor is thinking as he/she solve many, many

types of problems.

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Guided Reading and Notes• Guided reading uses the text and then propose

questions

• A guide or skeleton outline that assists in identifying main points in a reading.

• Interactive way to engage students

• Both prepared by instructor

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Guided Reading Activity

• Reveal the text one paragraph or equation at a time

• Teacher starts by asking process questions

• Then teacher will ask students what questions they would ask as more text is revealed.

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Fill in the blanks

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Concept Mapping• Connections to multiple representations of a

function

• Use as a study guide for testing

• Connections to big ideas

• Spatial vs linear thinking

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Example of concept map

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Questioning Skills• Fosters metacognition

• Activates prior knowledge

• Focus on how to comprehend challenging material not on what has been comprehended.

• Questions asked support strategies used by students during reading.

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Strategic Readers• Highlight concepts

• Create concept map – chunk the material for study

• Understanding of textbook design

• Arrangement of homework problems

(by concepts, examples, etc.)

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ReferencesAdams, A.E. & Pegg, J. (2012). Teachers’ enactment of content literacy strategies in secondary science and mathematics classes. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56(2),151-161.

Kenney, J. M., Hancewicz, E., Heuer, J., Metsisto, D., & Tuttle, C. L. (2005). Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction. ASCD.

Montis, K.K. (2007). Guided notes: An interactive method for success in secondary and college math classrooms. Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 29(3), 55-68.

Shanahan, T. & Shanahan, C. (2012). What is disciplinary literacy and why does it matter. Topics in Language Disorders, 32(1), 7-18.

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