REAP (Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder)

What is it?
REAP is strategy for helping others reads and understand a text, REAP is an acronym of
READ, ENCODE, ANNOTATE, PONDER.

Why use it?

As students go back to the text for each stage of REAP that will consider the text from a
different vantage. Each stage asks the students to analyze the text at a higher level to increase
and deepen comprehension.

How does it work?

After you have modeled a provided guided practice with this strategy, ask students to:
1. R- read on your own
2. E- encode the text by putting the gist of what your read in your own words
3. A- annotate the text by writing down the main ideas (notes, significant words, quotes,)
and the authors message
4. P- ponder what you read by thinking and taking with others in order to make personal
connections, develop questions about the topic, and/or connect this reading to other
reading you have done.

Social Welfare Policy

READ ENCODE

Title:
Social Welfare Policy Refers to Social Welfare Policy.

ANNOTATE PONDER

Social welfare policies are generally Social welfare includes healthcare,

targeted to specific population groups, such
as families in substandard housing, children
in poverty, the physically disabled,
minorities historically disadvantaged or
mistreated, victims of particular diseases.
empowerment, housing and other programs
geared towards assisting the poor,
unemployed and marginalized in society.
Questions: How Social Welfare Policy
contribute to the society?