Real Reading in the Middle Strategic practices used to promote literacy in the classroom

1. Real Reading in the Middle Strategic practices used to promote literacy in the classroom

2. Components of the Reading Process • ASCD Reading Strategies for Content Areas p.4

3. Why Teach Reading Skills in Content Areas? • “Each subject area requires students to use specific types of reading skills to comprehend text. Students need to learn and practice using reading strategies in the context of the subject they are studying. By helping students practice effective reading strategies and providing them with tools they can use to process content-area-text, you will help them reach the ultimate goal: becoming independent, strategic readers.” • ASCD Reading Strategies for Content Areas p.4

4. Strategy Use • Strategies used purposefully, provide students with tool boxes of learning ideas that takes the mystery out of reading. • As educators identify and utilize a variety of learning tools to help students access these strategic reading plans, student achievement will improve.

5. Seven Cognitive Strategies Activating Prior Knowledge Determining Important Ideas Questioning the text Creating Visual and Sensory Images Drawing Inferences Retelling and Synthesizing Utilizing Fix-Up Strategies

6. Higher Order Thinking Skills • Blooms Taxonomy • Knowledge/recall, define, fill in the blank • Comprehension/describe, explain paraphrase • Application/illustrate, construct, demonstrate, solve • Analysis/compare, diagram, infer, dissect • Synthesis/construct, create, predict, visualize • Evaluation/prioritize, assess, justify, appraise

7. Before Reading Strategies • Accessing Prior Knowledge through: • -Quick Writes • -Anticipation guides • -ABC Brainstorming • -Get the Gist

8. During Reading Strategies K.I.M. Double Entry Journals Sticky Notes Highlighting Blooms and QAR

9. After Reading Strategies • Discussion Web • It Says, I Say and So….. • Concept Shaping • Chalk Talk • Exit Slips • Literature Circles

10. Practical Applications of Strategies • Access prior knowledge of a subject with Get the Gist • Students work in groups to try and put information on strips of paper in an appropriate sequence. • Students read the material and then review placement of their previously determined information. • Students develop Bloom’s Questions based on synthesis, analysis, and evaluation levels for their reading.

11. Use a vocabulary strategy to help make connections to text. • K.I.M. strategy is Key Idea, Information or definition, and Memory Clue which is identified on a graphic organizer. Vocabulary Strategy

12. Alphabet Soup • Using the game of Scrabble as a format, students draw a specified number of letters. • Students then use these letters as sentence starters based on the information from their reading.

13. Exit Slips • Exit slips are half sheets of paper used to identify knowledge learned or questions that are still unanswered from the daily lesson. • Students who may be reluctant to share their questions in class, are less threatened with this process. • The instructor has a chance then to identify areas that may need re-teaching or clarifying and to address individual concerns.

14. MCES Contact Information Nancy Fenton: 269-317-9911, Fenton@MichiganCES.org Jan Munther: 269-760-0127, JMunther@sbcglobal.net