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11. 40 Graphic Organizers that Build Comprehension during Independent Reading SCHOLASTIC
Engaging reproducibles that help students use reading strategies, learn about literary elements and
explore genre.
INTRODUCTION: The Benefits of Independent Reading
Making Independent Reading Work in Your Classroom
Getting Students Ready to Read
How to use this book
Part 1: RECORD-KEEPING FORMS
* My Reading Agreement: A Contract
* My Reading Log: A Record
* Word Wallets: Building Vocabulary
Part 2: GETTING READY TO READ:
* Get a Sneak Peek: Previewing
* Preview and Predict Balloons: Making Predictions
* Hooked to a Book: Making Connections
Part 3: BECOMING A STRATEGIC READER
Strategies for Reading Fiction: * Read the future: Predict/Support/Adjust
* Picture this!: Visualizing
* Follow the Guide: Retelling
* Pop the Question!: Questioning
* Sum It Up With Storyboards: Summarizing
Strategies for Reading Notification:
* My Personal Thinking and Learning
Record: Activating Prior Knowledge
* Get Behind the Scenes: Finding Key
Information – 5 W’s and H
* Identifying Fact and Opinion
* Venn Diagram: Compare and Contrast
* Build With Details: Main Idea and Details
Strategies for Reading Poetry: * Say It Your Way: Paraphrasing
* Hop on the Sensory Express: Noticing
Sensory Details Part 4: HELPING STUDENTS UNDERSTAND LITERARY GENRES
Fiction: * Paint a Portrait: Character Map
* What a Character!: Character Traits
* What’s the Problem?: Problem/Action/Outcome
* Follow the Footsteps: Sequence
* Map it Out: Story Structure
* Narrative Fan: Summarize
* Beginning the End: Character Development
Folk and Fairy Tales: * Are You Up to the Test?: Identifying Tasks
* Magic Powers: Elements of Folk and Fairy
Tales * Heroes and Heroines With Heart: Inferring Character
Traits Poetry: * Who Is It Like?: Simile
* Show Off the Shape: Concrete Poetry .
* Trip Over Your Tongue: Alliteration
* Meaningful Sounds: Onomatopoeia
Nonfiction: * The Road to Success: Biography
* Fact-O-Gram: Information Books
* I Wonder: Questioning
* Keep-in-Time Sequence String: Chronological Order
* Once I . . . : Making Connections
* Treasure Hunt: Elements of Newspapers and Magazines
* Read All About It: The 5 W’s and the News
Part 5: READING AND WORD STUDY
* What I Know About Words: Using Prior Knowledge
* Web a Word: Word Questioning
* Word Links: Making Connections
* Words in the World: Sensory Language Chart
12. What you Need to Know When Your Child is Learning to Read MARTA SCHOLASTIC
‘FOR PARENTS, BUT IT MAY BE A HELP FOR TEACHERS.’
CHAPTER 1: Five Inside Stories (recognizing personal approaches to reading)
CHAPTER 2: The Building Blocks of Reading (connections every reader makes)
CHAPTER 3: Children as Reading Detectives (using clues to uncover meaning)
CHAPTER 4: Becoming Your Child’s Reading Partner (knowing what you can do to help)
CHAPTER 5: Will My Child Have a Reading Problem? (and other special circumstances)
CHAPTER 6: You and Your Child’s School: (working together)
AFTERWORD: Reflecting on Your Child as a Learner
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS . . . and answers
13. Project Work OXFORD
INTRODUCTION: * About project work
* Defining a project
* The advantages of project work
* Project work and the language skills
* Developing a project
* Using projects in a non-English environment
* Possible problems
CHAPTER 1: BRIDGING STRATEGIES
* The use of bridging activities: different activities of different levels, which
bring together the classroom and the outside world, and at the same time, bring together the
four skills
ACTIVIITES: 1. How do you make an English apple tart?
2. Food labels: pin and thread display
3. Pocket-money survey/personal budget
4. Staff portrait gallery
5. Team-work exchange skills
6. Tourist broadsheets
7. Newspaper front page
CHAPTER 2: ORGANIZING A PROJECT
* What kind of project?
* Planning a project: the initial stages
* Data collection and storage
* Outside visits and speakers
* Materials and equipment
* Student grouping
* The development of the project
* Getting a project started
* Problems in the early stages
CHAPTER 3: THE PROJECT IN ACTION
* Role of the teacher
* Short-term projects
* Long-term projects
* Monitoring
* Classroom feedback sessions
* Dealing with difficulties
CHAPTER 4: THE LAYERED APPROACH
* Developing the four skills
ACTIVITIES: 8. Seed project
CHAPTER 5: CASE STUDIES
* Full-scale studies
ACTIVITIES: 9. Expedition task for the start of a course
10. Street interviews on a specific topic
11. String and pin display: tourist destinations within a town
12. Third world display
13. Good wheelchair guide
14. Primary school teaching
15. Hospital and spastic unit
14. 25 Science Plays for Emergent Readers SCHOLASTIC
Amazing Animals
p.15 The Spider Song
p.17 Fly High, Butterfly!
p.19 Hatching Ducks
p.20 There’s No Place Like Home
p.23 Home for Sale
p.25 When Nighttime Comes
p.27 Winter Friends
p.29 Once Upon a Food Chain
All About me
p.31 A Monster Meal
p.33 Body Beat
p.35 Too Smart for Germs!
p.37 Something Tells Me
Plants and Seeds
p.41 Farmer, Farmer
p.42 At Home in a Tree
p.44 That Time of Year
p.46 A Seed Surprise
p.48 It’s Harvest Time
Earth and Sky
p.50 Let’s Go Exploring
p.52 All Aboard the Earth Train!
p.55 My Shadow, My Friend
p.56 Alphabet Clouds
p.58 Four in a Storm
p. 60 Twinkle, Twinkle, Pretty Stars
p.62 Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Cold
15. Phonics from A to Z SCHOLASTIC
SECTION 1: WHAT IS PHONICS?