Thinking and Reading Strategies For Content Area Teaching

1. . Thinking and Reading StrategiesFor Content Area Teaching Mark Weakland

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3. Comprehension • The ultimate goal • Understand both fiction and informational • Understand and remember • Relate knowledge and experiences • Communicate with others

4. Strategy Category Activate Prior Knowledge Ask and Answer Questions Summarize Visualize Making Connections (Relational Thinking)

5. Activities for Strategies Anticipation Guide See, Think, Wonder Stop Light Word Sorts and Summary Story SWBST

6. Anticipation Guides • Activate prior knowledge • Set a purpose for learning • Stimulate a student’s curiosity in a topic • Develop a student’s ability to respond to a text or a conversation • Allow the teacher to gather formative assessment data on prior knowledge.

7. Next Gen Sci Standards • The Solar System • Earth’s Place in the Universe • Earth’s Systems • Middle School

10. Anticipation guides • First: read statements and mark guide • Individual • With a partner • In small groups • Next: learn, read, experience • Last: read statements and revise guide • During learning, reading, experiencing • After… • Individual, with a partner, in small grp, w/large group

13. Anticipation Guides • Teacher-made: WV history • Teacher-made: Water use

14. See, Think,Wonder • Activates prior knowledge • Stimulates a student’s curiosity in a topic • Develops observation skills • Develops communication skills • Allows the teacher to gather formative assessment data on prior knowledge. • Leads to questioning!

15. Next Gen Sci Standards • Earth Systems • Earth and Human Activity • 2nd grade, 4th grade, middle school

16. Next Gen Sci Standards • How do human activities affect earth systems? • What solutions are available to reduce the impacts of natural earth processes on humans?

17. Asking and Answering Questions • Good readers do this. Life long learners do this. • The heart of science • Critically important for comprehension • Question and Answer Relationship / Close Reading / Thin and Thick Questions

18. Turn and Talk What strategy or strategies do you teach for asking and answering questions?

19. Stop Light Strategy • Red = Stop and Think. Answer is inferred; author and you; text and your knowledge • Yellow = Slow Down and Search. Find the answer in multiple areas. • Green = Go ahead. The answer is right there.

20. Signal Words • In the text / green and yellow lights • List, name • Who, where, when • Author and you / red light • Why • Predict • What would…

21. Signal Words ? • What is the setting for the story? • What do you think Wilbur is feeling when Charlotte first tells him she is going to die? • How many friends does Wilbur have and what are their names? • How does Templeton feel about saving Wilbur?

22. Stop Light Strategy • Red = Stop and Think. Answer is inferred; author and you; text and your knowledge • Yellow = Slow Down and Search. Find the answer in multiple areas. • Green = Go ahead. The answer is right there.

23. Increase Comprehension withSummarizing • Verbal summary • Written summary

24. Summarize Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

25. Summarize Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

26. Summarize Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

27. You Try It Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

28. Summarize Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

29. You Try It Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then (SWBST)

30. Vocabulary Learning is stronger, deeper, and more persistent when schema is built and activated.

31. Vocabulary word sorts and study • Kinesthetic • Cumulative • Connective / schematic • Mastery-based

32. Introduce words with direct instruction routine • Don’t play the guessing game

33. Vocabulary card activities • ABC order; read the words • Point to the word • Pick up the word • Open sort • Closed sort

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35. A Step Further • Using a Generative Vocabulary Matrix in the Learning Workshop • Sue C. Larson • JUN 2014 Reading Teacher