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Discover quick strategies to enhance adolescent literacy skills across various content areas. From focusing on facts to engaging with everyday words, this guide helps students become more proficient readers and communicators. Explore metacognitive questions, visual aids, and purposeful viewing techniques to foster a deeper understanding of textual information. Encourage independent learning and critical thinking with engaging activities and thoughtful questioning.

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  1. Word Play Quick Strategies to Improve Adolescent Literacy Heather Mullins HPS Middle/High Schools Instructional Coach

  2. What is Literacy? • The ability to communicate through a wide variety of media • Visual • Auditory • Oral • Interactive media • Written text

  3. What are the literacy skills students need to learn across the content areas?

  4. Quick Strategies • Focus on Facts • Big and Little Questions • Everyday Words • The Billboard • Viewing with a Purpose • Seen it…Heard it…Thought it… • Answer This!

  5. Focus on Facts • Skills • Vocabulary • Continuous Evaluation • Visual • Summarizing • Speaking • Listening • Writing

  6. Focus on Facts • Metacognition Questions

  7. Big and little Questions • Essential Questions vs. Stepping-Stones Questions • Conceptual thinking • Building connections • Teacher-generated questions and student-generated questions

  8. Big and Little Questions • Metacognition Questions:

  9. Everyday Words • Brain-Friendly • Student Choice • Vocabulary building • Connecting Knowledge

  10. Everyday Words • Variations • Allow students to choose words from a list • Have students draw pictures that represent words – Display drawings on a word wall.

  11. Everyday Words • Metacognition Questions:

  12. The Billboard • Uses visual imagery and vocabulary to summarize • Share some billboards • (Google images has some great billboards) • Ask students… • How are billboards used to convey messages? • What is the purpose of a billboard?

  13. The Billboard • Students… • Use vocabulary • Connect new knowledge • Create images • Periodically summarize • Use text features • Devise a plan

  14. The Billboard • Metacognition Questions:

  15. Viewing with a Purpose • Previewing guide • Provide overview • Ask students what they already know about the topic • Front loading for class discussion • Goal setting for viewing

  16. Viewing with a Purpose • Options: • Break viewing into small chunks to discuss effectiveness of student viewing strategies • Couple with “Seen it…Heard it…Thought it…” • Definitely have a plan for students during the video

  17. Viewing with a Purpose • Metacognition Questions:

  18. Seen it…Heard it…Thought it… • Students will… • Analyze visual and aural information • Interpret what they see and hear • Draw inferences

  19. Seen it…Heard it…Thought it… • Metacognition Questions:

  20. Answer This! • Empowers students • Ensures teachable moments about levels of questions • Promotes careful reading, listening, and viewing • Provides formative assessment x 2

  21. Answer This • Encourage students to create questions that require students to use a lot of information to answer

  22. Summary • Literacy strategies • Provide formative assessment for you • Give students an opportunity to become actively engaged in the topic • Help students to become independent learners • Promote metacognition through activities and questioning

  23. References Beers, Sue (2008). Adolescent literacy. Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Leslie, C. (May 2006) "Metacognition through Group Practice in the New Media Classroom," M/C Journal, 9(2). Retrieved 02 Jun. 2009 from <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0605/11-leslie.php>.

  24. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. For more information, visit http://creativecommons.org . Credit info: Heather Mullins, Middle and High Schools Instructional Coach mullinshe@hickoryschools.net

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