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The document provides guidance on developing students' question asking skills through various activities that have them generate and categorize different types of questions about short stories and characters. It encourages crafting knowledge-based, speculative, and deeper thinking questions and modeling what makes a good question by being accurate yet interesting. Students practice this by writing questions about Of Mice and Men characters and their dreams.
The document describes a mystery writing project for students in six steps: 1) Brainstorming story ideas from a prompt, 2) Creating an outline, 3) Writing a first draft, 4) Revising based on peer feedback, 5) Incorporating revisions, and 6) Editing by reading aloud and getting feedback. Students are guided through prewriting, drafting, and revising a 500-1000 word mystery story using plot elements studied in class. They will be graded on a rubric assessing elements like tone, description, foreshadowing, and spelling. The goal is for students to thoughtfully craft and improve their mystery stories through a structured writing process.
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2) After the 2008 financial crisis, there is a greater appreciation for higher education being a public good that benefits society, rather than just a private good for individuals. Teaching people critical thinking skills helps equip them to improve their lives and contribute to society.
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POST-READING ACTIVITIES
It may be elicited from listening, speaking, reading, writing skills, social and physical skills, games and play, and artworks which certainly enrich the emergent readers' love for reading.
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This document provides strategies for effective reading comprehension. It outlines seven key strategies: make connections, visualize, ask questions, infer, determine importance, synthesize, and use text features. Readers should make connections to their own experiences and knowledge, visualize descriptions to aid understanding, ask questions before, during and after reading, infer deeper meanings, identify important ideas, synthesize information by combining new knowledge with existing knowledge, and use features like titles and headings to guide comprehension.
This document provides an overview of reading comprehension and strategies for generating questions before, during, and after reading. It discusses the five areas of reading: alphabetic understanding, phonological processing, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension. Generating questions using the 5 Ws is presented as an important part of reading comprehension and meta-cognition. Specific question prompts are provided for before, during, and after reading to improve understanding. The document encourages reflection and question generating in groups as ways to practice these comprehension strategies.
This document provides strategies and tips for effective reading comprehension in 6 steps: before, during, and after reading. It recommends preparing for reading by activating background knowledge and making predictions. While reading, it suggests monitoring understanding, visualizing, and making connections. After reading, it advises reviewing questions, summarizing key details, and reflecting on the purpose and overall meaning of the text. The document aims to help readers actively engage with a text at each stage of the reading process.
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Literature circles involve students forming discussion groups to reflect on and analyze literature. Each small group has different reading roles to divide responsibilities and encourage participation. The purposes are to develop personal responses to texts, share understandings through peer discussion, and improve comprehension, appreciation of style, and reading strategies. Roles include vocabulary enricher, summarizer, literary luminary, discussion director, and connector to relate the text to personal experiences. [END SUMMARY]
The document presents 6 reading strategies for students: 1) predicting what will happen next, 2) trying to decode new words, 3) looking at pictures on the page and thinking about what they already know, 4) summarizing important details, 5) previewing a text before reading, and 6) questioning to understand and remember content. The strategies are intended to help students become stronger readers by making reading meaningful and developing positive habits.
This powerpoint introduces literature circles and provides guidance on implementing them in the classroom. Literature circles involve small groups reading and discussing the same book, with student-led conversations. They promote a love of reading, critical thinking, and collaboration. The presentation outlines how to form groups, select books, establish expectations, and assess student learning during literature circles.
The document discusses what critical thinking is, including that it involves understanding, analyzing, and evaluating information to make informed judgments, and lists characteristics of strong critical thinkers such as being honest about limitations and seeking balanced views. It also outlines Bloom's Taxonomy of critical thinking skills and provides examples of strategies like SQ3R and PTR2 that can be used to critically analyze different types of texts.
The document provides guidance for students taking on different roles to collaboratively discuss and understand a text. It outlines the roles of Summariser, Vocabulary Extender, Artful Artist, Clever Connector, Discussion Director, and Character Captain. For each role, it describes the key tasks and provides criteria for success, as well as suggestions to go beyond the basic requirements.
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The document provides guidance for students taking on different roles to engage with and summarize a text. It describes 9 different roles: Summariser, Vocabulary Extender, Artful Artist, Clever Connector, Discussion Director, and Character Captain. Each role has specific tasks to complete like writing a summary, identifying unfamiliar words, creating a visual representation, asking discussion questions, or explaining a character's perspective. The document outlines success criteria and suggestions for going beyond the basic requirements for each role.
This PPT is meant to show students the different ways of thinking. It shows them that they will be thinking in a variety of ways and that higher level thinking is important and will be expected.
This document outlines an agenda for a two-day professional development session on teaching for understanding. The goals are for participants to understand frameworks and instructional moves for teaching reading comprehension strategies. The session will model strategies like activating background knowledge, asking questions, determining importance, and visualizing through a demonstration lesson. Participants will discuss reading comprehension, complete a close read activity, and develop anchor charts. They will also apply the strategies by planning how to teach a text and posting their ideas online. The document emphasizes understanding reading as a thinking process and using the before, during, after framework to support student thinking.
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1. Reading Strategies Toolkit
Double Entry Journal
Quote from Text w/page # Explanation of Importance, Personal
Connection, Agreements,
Disagreements, Interpretations.
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Triple Entry Journal
Quote from Text w/page Explanation of Importance, Questions I have
# Personal Connection,
Agreements, Disagreements,
Interpretations.
Jennifer McCarty Plucker, EdD Page 2
3. Reading Strategies Toolkit
Reading:________________ Name:__________________
Pages:______________
Please be thorough and thoughtful in your questions and
comments.
In the circle, write
down at least three
questions that you have
going around in your
brain after or as you are
reading this article.
In the triangle, write
down what you feel
are at least three of
the main points of
this article.
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In the square, write down
at least three ideas that the
author has that you agree
with. Or three parts you
really enjoyed from this
reading. The ideas are
square with you.
Name:
Date:
Reading:
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It says I say And so. . . .
Here you take a quote from Here you give your reason Here you discuss how this
the text that catches your why you chose the quote or relates to other people, history,
attention. what you have to say about it. our society, or discuss its
overall importance
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
5.)
6.)
7.)
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During Reading Activity
What? So What? Now What?
What? What is the article/chapter about? Summarize/Paraphrase the main
ideas below:
So What? What does this mean for me, my (future) students, our school?
Why is this important?
Now What? What do I do with what I have learned from this reading?
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Name:
Date:
Reading:
It says I say And so. . . .
Here you take a quote from Here you give your reason Here you discuss how this
the text that catches your why you chose the quote or relates to other people, history,
attention. what you have to say about it. our society, or discuss its
overall importance
1.)
2.)
3.)
4.)
5.)
6.)
7.)
Jennifer McCarty Plucker, EdD Page 7
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Reader Response Starters
Tapping Prior Knowledge Forming Interpretations
I already know that What this means to me is
This reminds me of I think this represents
This relates to The idea Im getting is
Asking Questions Monitoring
I wonder why I got lost here because
What if I need to reread the part where
How come I know Im on the right track
because
Predicting
Ill bet that Revising Meaning
I think At first I thought ____, but now
If _____, then My latest thought about this is
Im getting a different picture here
because
Visualizing
I can picture
In my mind I see Analyzing the Authors Craft
If this were a movie A golden line for me is
This word/phrase stands out for me
because
Making Connections I like how the author uses ___ to
This reminds me of show
I experienced this once when
I can relate to this because
Reflecting and Reacting
So, the big idea is
Adopting an Alignment A conclusion Im drawing is
The character I most identify with This is relevant to my life because
is
I really got into this story when
I can relate to this author because Evaluating
I like/ dont like ____ because
This could be more effective if
The most important message is
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Previewing the Topic
4
interesting
facts
3
Details every
Student should know
From your article
2
Questions you have
After reading your text
1
Thing you want to
Learn more about
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C
What does the front cover show us about
what we might visualize in the story?
Covers What does the back cover tell us about the
story (words, pictures, ect.)
A
What is the authors background? Has he/
she written any other stories like this?
Author What were they about? Are the characters
the same in each story?
T
What can we predict about the story based
on the title? What are your predictions?
Title
A
For whom is this written?
Author
P
Read page 1 and think/write about what
the story may be about?
Page 1
U
With what we have thought about so far,
what message or purpose might the author
Underlying have for the readers?
Message
L
What do the illustrations tell us? (If there
are not illustrations, look at cover
Look at visuals pictures)
T
What have you learned about setting/
characters? What do you think will
Time, Place, happen to them?
characters
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Three, Two, One
Name: _____________________Date: _____ Hour: _____
Three things I learned:
Two questions I now have:
One thing I will do or change as a result:
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1 2 3 4 5
Answering Retelling Merging Thinking with Acquiring Knowledge Actively Using
Literal Content New
Questions Knowledge
To answer Retelling Real understanding Once youve merged your With new
literal shows that you takes root when you thinking with the content, insights and
questions, can organize merge your thinking you can begin to acquire understanding
students can your thoughts with the content by knowledge and insight. s you can
skim and scan sequentially connecting, inferring, You can learn, understand, actively use
for answers and and put them questioning, and remember. This knowledge
require just in your own determining shows deep and apply
short term words. Shows importance, understanding. what you have
memory. short-term synthesizing, and learned to the
Literal recall recall of events reacting to experiences,
does not in a narrative information. situations, and
demonstrate and bits of Understanding begins circumstances
understanding. information in here. in your daily
nonfiction. lives to
Does not, in expand
and of itself, understanding
demonstrate and even take
understanding. action.
Types of Types of Types of Questions Types of Questions Types of
Questions Questions Questions
asked asked/statem
ents made
How many. . .? What What do I think? What did I learn that I What do I
What is. . .? happened is. . . What did I learn? think is important to want to do
Where did. . .? It is about. . . What does this remember? Why is it about this?
Who was. . .? I read. . . remind me of? important? Why do I want
First. . .Second. What do I wonder? Why does it matter? to take
. .Third. . What do I visualize? What do I think are some action?
When did. . .? What do I infer? big ideas here? Is there a way
I observe. . . What makes me say What do I think the I could get
that? author/photographer/arti involved?
What made me think st/musician What areas
of this? wants me to get out of could I get
this? involved in?
What is the tone/mood of What is my
the piece? plan?
How does this
relate to
something in
my life that
needs action?
Anticipation Guide (+Why)
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13. Reading Strategies Toolkit
Anticipation guides or prediction guides activate a students prior knowledge and set a purpose
or framework for the reading. They are most useful when the text contains controversial issues,
problems, or opinions about a topic.
Procedure:
1. Identify major concepts in the reading or lesson.
2. Create statements that question certain notions, beliefs, or opinions.
3. Have students mark their responses of agreement or disagreement in the Before
Reading column and then have students give reasons for their opinions by
answering the Why? question on the left under each statement.
4. Have students read the text.
5. After reading or other follow-up activities, have students mark the After Reading
column and fill in the Why? section on the right under each statement.
6. Conduct a discussion comparing the before and after results. Your discussion should
refer to evidence in the text and should cover students reasons for changes in their
before and after answers.
EXAMPLE:
A = Agree strongly a = Agree somewhat d = Disagree somewhat D = Disagree strongly
Before Reading After Reading
____ 1. Romeos impulsiveness, rashness, and immaturity caused him problems. _____
Why? Why?
_____ 2. Nothing is worth dying for. _____
Why? Why?
_____ 3. People who live by the sword die by the sword. _____
Why? Why?
_____ 4. A person cannot change the role that fate has ordained for him or her. _____
Why? Why?
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