40 ways to support struggling readers in content classrooms, grades 6-12 /
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| Language: | English |
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[Reston, Va.] : Thousand Oaks, CA :
National Association of Secondary School Principals ; Corwin Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Teach the seven strategies of highly effective readers
- Engage in teacher and student think-alouds daily
- Teach students how to activate prior knowledge and make connections to new knowledge
- Teach students how to infer
- Teach students how to monitor their comprehension
- Teach students how to ask questions
- Teach students how to question the author
- Teach students how to search and select
- Teach students how to summarize
- Teach students how to graphically organize text and concepts by chunking
- Use and teach concept maps
- Teach students how to mark text as they read
- Provide advance organizers before lessons
- Use the I do it, we do it, you do it lesson plan
- Provide models, examples, and nonexamples
- Preview and preteach critical concepts and vocabulary
- Check frequently for understanding
- Assess for learning and for grading
- Use and teach content vocabulary daily
- Teach academic vocabulary
- Teach vocabulary using graphic organizers
- Reduce the cognitive load
- Teach the structure of your discipline
- Use easy nonfiction to build background knowledge
- Determine what's hard for students and teach it
- Provide easy-to-read short articles based on content standards
- Assign oral-assisted repeated reading of content text
- Use a variety of oral reading approaches
- Vary your models, moves, and activities
- Design interactive lessons
- Use the cooperative learning model
- Create content-based cooperative games and activities
- Vary your seating and grouping arrangements
- Give students reasons for reading
- Develop and use scoring rubrics
- Increase wait time
- Build in frequent processing breaks
- Use and teach mnemonic devices
- Schedule writing in response to reading on a regular basis
- Expect students to activate, connect, and summarize daily.