Content Literacy:

1. Content Literacy: “Every teacher a teacher of Reading.” William S. Gray, Professor Emeritus University of Chicago, 1925

2. Goals of the Initiative • Develop a common understanding about strategic reading (philosophies and vocabulary) • Implement selected research based content literacy reading strategies • Improve reading comprehension in all subject areas • Develop independent strategic readers and thinkers

3. Goals of Session 3 Increase understanding of how to help students become strategic readers Review content literacy strategies that have been introduced Provide hands-on experience with strategies for processing a reading selection

4. The Frayer Model

5. The Frayer Model

6. Concept Definition Mapping Comparisons/ Contrasts

7. Verbal and Visual Word Association

8. Zoom In Zoom Out

9. Strategy: Group Summarizing • Summarizing requires readers to distinguish between key concepts and subordinate ideas. • Summarizing requires students to condense information. • Group Summarizing requires students to explain what they have learned through a summary.

10. Steps in Group Summarizing • Record the title of the selection. • Students survey the text passage and identify major topics (categories). These topics provide the students with a purpose for reading. • Divide the writing area into parts and label the sections based on the major topics. • Have the students read the selection.

11. Steps in Group Summarizing • The teacher asks the students to identify information for the specific categories. • As a class, develop summaries from the recorded information. The summaries are written in the appropriate sections of the chart. • Class discussion and teacher modeling are key parts of the process.

12. Steps in Group Summarizing