Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons

1. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons What do smart readers do? Before During After Content Standards:

2. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers assess the level of difficulty before reading and plan to adjust their pace, focus, and preparation accordingly. Pre-reading strategy: Assess and plan Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Soc. St: Anthropologists believe that a key marker of advanced civilization is division of labor.

3. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers use a procedure to extract main ideas from a textbook chapter. Pre-reading strategy: THIEVVES: Title, headings, introductions, every first sentence of each segment, visuals and vocabulary, end-of-chapter questions, summaries Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Soc. St: Anthropologists believe that a key marker of advanced civilization is division of labor.

4. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers know what they are looking for in a reading assignment. Pre-Reading Strategy: Am I expected to remember this? Am I looking for specific information? Do I know that what I’m looking for is here? What am I supposed to do with this information? Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Soc. St: Anthropologists believe that a key marker of advanced civilization is division of labor.

5. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers sharpen their focus by questioning the text: Pre-Reading Strategy: Convert the headings and subheadings into questions, preferably by writing in the text, or using sticky notes or bookmarks Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Soc. St: Anthropologists believe that a key marker of advanced civilization is division of labor.

6. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons What do smart readers do? √Before During After Summary of pre-reading strategies: 1. Assess and plan 2. THIEVES overview 3. Establish purpose 4. Convert the headings and sub-headings into questions

7. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Science: There are three kinds of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary. Rocks are categorized on the basis of how they are formed. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers create mental pictures while reading. During-reading strategy: Interact with the text by visualizing. Use the available visuals in the text, plus your own imagination and connections.

8. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Science: There are three kinds of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary. Rocks are categorized on the basis of how they are formed. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers monitor for comprehension and make repairs when they don’t understand. During-reading strategies: Reread, use outside help, sub-summarize, build up bigger and bigger units of meaning, create visual organizers…

9. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content Science: There are three kinds of rocks: igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary. Rocks are categorized on the basis of how they are formed. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers are aware of dominant patterns and make sense of information based on these patterns During-reading strategies: Be aware of how the information is organized: narrative/descriptive classification/definition/example comparison-contrast cause & effect process analysis (how-to)

10. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons What do smart readers do? Before √During After Summary of during-reading strategies: 1. Self-monitoring and adjustment 2. Visualization 3. Awareness of organizational patterns: narrative/descriptive (story) classification/definition/example comparison-contrast cause & effect process analysis (how-to)

11. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Content Standards: Enduring Understanding: Content English Language Arts: Writers often express meaning through metaphor. Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers take action to hold on to what they’ve learned through reading. After-reading strategies: Talk, write, draw

12. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons What do smart readers do? Before During √After Summary of after-reading strategies: 1.TALK: Cooperative learning experiences that allow for conversation about the reading 2. WRITE: Summaries, graphic organizers, note-taking, list-making, etc. 3. DRAW: pictorial representations, labeled diagrams, etc.

13. Linking Content Lessons to Strategic Reading Lessons Enduring Understanding: Strategic Reading Smart readers use a variety of strategies to learn and remember terminology: Context clues Word analysis Glossaries Repeated use of new word Use of new word in multiple forms Non-verbal processing: visuals gestures Considering interdisciplinary crossovers of words Subject-specific terminology