This document provides strategies for teaching students the reading process using a three-part structure of before, during, and after reading strategies. It recommends selecting one strategy from each category for student readings and explains that modeling and clear expectations are important for students to understand how to apply the strategies. Some key strategies include setting a purpose, previewing vocabulary and content, taking notes, annotating text, and completing activities after reading like discussing or creating test questions. The document emphasizes that using strategies from each category helps students read and learn most effectively.
This document provides strategies for teaching students the reading process using a three-part structure of before, during, and after reading strategies. It recommends selecting one strategy from each category for student readings and explains that modeling and clear expectations are important for students to understand how to apply the strategies. Some key strategies include setting a purpose, previewing vocabulary and content, taking notes, annotating text, and completing activities after reading like discussing or creating test questions. The document emphasizes that using strategies from each category helps students read and learn most effectively.
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This document provides strategies for teaching students the reading process using a three-part structure of before, during, and after reading strategies. It recommends selecting one strategy from each category for student readings and explains that modeling and clear expectations are important for students to understand how to apply the strategies. Some key strategies include setting a purpose, previewing vocabulary and content, taking notes, annotating text, and completing activities after reading like discussing or creating test questions. The document emphasizes that using strategies from each category helps students read and learn most effectively.
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with these Strategies! Pick a strategy from each category (pre- during-after) for all your readings … and Before Reading Strategies: TELL the kids you are teaching them the Set Purpose (Teacher and process! Student) Preview Key Vocabulary Do I need to use all these strategies each Preview Important Content time students read? Model Using Visual or Text Clues No! But, students read best when they to Guide Text Reading use strategies from each category. o Headings/Subheadings o Objectives Importance of Before Reading Strategies: o Key Questions With every lesson, it is important to give o Charts/Graphs/Pictures your students a purpose for reading the Other: text. When you preview key vocabulary and content, the students have background on what they will be learning. During Reading Strategies: Textbooks are often built around this— Take Cornell Notes help them take advantage! Annotate/Interact with Text Periodically using Importance of During Reading Strategies: o Costa’s Level of Questions The activities listed to the left give o Summaries students a focus and purpose as they read o Connections the material. Whatever activity the o Visualizations students are asked to do, it needs to be Create Concept Webs explained and modeled so the students Answer Peer Questions via Jigsaw have a clear expectation of how to read Record Learning via Double Entry the text. Journals Other: Importance of After Reading Strategies: After students have read a text, they need to process the information they have read After Reading Strategies: for optimal learning. These activities are Complete Graphic Organizer all also informal ways to collect formative Think, Write, Pair, Share feedback on student understanding. Summarize / Reflect on Content in Cornell Notes or a Learning Log Discuss in Small or Whole Group As always, if you have any questions, Create Test Questions using please don’t hesitate to email us: Costa’s Levels of Questioning msethna@d120.org or hplatis@d120.org Other: !