Content+Reading

=Content Reading and the Common Core: BIG Ideas for Successful Learning = The Carnegie Report, //Reading in the the Disciplines// (2010) describes this phenomenon:


 * //"The ability to comprehend written texts is not a static or fixed ability, but rather one that involves a dynamic relationship between the demands of texts and prior knowledge and the goals of the reader."//**


 * Where should you begin?**
 * Seek to understand your students as learners/readers with individual academic skills
 * Collect data (WKCE, AIMSWeb, ACESS, DRP, STAR, Specialist's reports)
 * Analyze data and plan appropriate instruction


 * What should you do if students have identified reading deficiencies**?
 * Partner students with a shared text alternating paragraphs and understandings
 * Provide support through echo or choral reading of passages
 * Supplement textbook content with leveled mentor texts
 * Model comprehension through content and process statements
 * Practice documenting and verbalizing effective meaning making processes


 * When and How should you get started?**
 * Start small with a few strategies added to you regular routine
 * Adjust and make improvements to guide your students through the text
 * Add more strategies to your repertoire as you gain confidence and students achieve success

**PRE-READING STRATEGIES:** These activities involve generating student interest, activating prior knowledge and teacher modeling of effective strategies.

 * **Vocabulary** || **Knowledge of Text Structure** || **Guided Text Preview** ||
 * * Youtube
 * Google Images
 * Vocabulary sorts with Smart Board or White Board
 * Word Central - Student created dictionary/word bank
 * Word Spy
 * Word Walls || * External Features and format
 * Predict Tables of Content
 * Create Chapter Graphic Organizers
 * Jigsaw Text Sections
 * Use Visual and Graphic Information
 * Understand the Organization of Internet Sites
 * Learn to Evaluate Internet Sites || * DRTA – Directed Reading/Thinking Activity
 * PREP – Preview, Read, Examine, Prompt
 * Learning Log Format
 * KWL (know/want to know/learned)
 * KIC (know/what interests me/my choice)
 * KPC (know/what I predict/check) ||

**DURING READING STRATEGIES:** These activities can help students get more out of their reading.

 * **Reading Strategies** || **Questioning** || **Note-taking** ||
 * Reciprocal Teaching – small groups/roles
 * (questioning, clarifying, summarizing and predicting)

ReQuest Procedure – partner read and comprehension check

Paired Reading/Paired Summarizing – Paragraph Chunking

Modeling Comprehension || Taxonomies - > information from the text. Graphic Organizers:
 * Right there: Questions that can be answered directily from the text.
 * Think and search: Questions that require more than one piece of
 * Author and you: Questions that go beyond the text.
 * On your own: Questions that rely on the reader.
 * QAR – Question/Answer Relationships || Note-taking the easy way:
 * Symbols with sticky notes
 * Semantic Mapping
 * Cause/Effect
 * Compare/Contrast
 * Concept/Definition
 * Goal/Action/Outcome
 * Problem/Solution
 * Proposition/Support
 * Sequence/Timeline ||

**POST-READING STRATEGIES:** **These activities reveal students' understandings of a concept and prepare them for more complex thinking**.
==*Remember: Your end goal is to grow literate and strategic learners who have learned the strategies and know how to apply them. These types of learners will make use of learned strategies and selectively utilize them to complete tasks in all content areas.==
 * **Information Building** || **Discussion** || **Reflection** ||
 * * Carousel Brainstorming
 * First-Middle-Last Word
 * Four Corner Challenge
 * Give1 to Get 1
 * Walk About Survey || * Creative Debate
 * Discussion Web
 * Community Circle
 * Scored Discussion || * Back-to-Back Thinking Face-to-Face Conversing
 * F.I.R.E. Strategy (Formulate, Internalize, Record, Exchange)
 * Partner Roundup
 * Three Minute Pause ||

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50 Instructional Routines to Develop Content Literacy, 2/E

Not for ESOL Teachers: What Every Classroom Teacher Needs to Know About the Linguistically, Culturally, and Ethnically Diverse Student, 2/E

Vol. 2: Strategies to Engage the Mind of the Learner: Building Strategic Learners, 2nd. edition

Previewing Nonfiction Texts:
@http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/818.cfm

Take a Minute for ELL
@http://takaminuteforell.weebly.com/

** Content Subject 'Mentor Text' Sources **
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 * Achieve3000
 * Teenbiz Archive - Nonfiction Associated Press Stories with Comprehension Questions; searchable database
 * Mentor texts: web-based sources and links
 * Graphic Organizers
 * Anchor Books for Modeling @http://www.choiceliteracy.com/public/166.cfm


 * Scholastic Resources
 * StoryWorks Grades 3-6 LINK
 * Scholastic News
 * You Are What You Read


 * Time for Kids
 * Current Science published by Weekly Reader: Grades 6-10
 * Non Fiction Authors in your classroom @http://www.inkthinktank.com/pages/video-gallery/index.html


 * Reading A-Z
 * Guided Reading
 * Comprehensive Lesson Plans
 * Technology Solutions

Understand Text Structure

 * === Text Cohesion Practice ===
 * [|Websequitur and iLearn]
 * Practice the tools of text cohesion; Students vocalize their thinking and justify the phrase order. This link will take you to iLearn; see example of four paragraph scrambled text.
 * === Language of cause and effect, compare and contrast ===