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from Building Literacy in Social Studies - Successful Readers/Struggling Readers Characteristics Bef
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Once fluent readers begin reading in earnest, they add another set of skills and strategies to promote comprehension. These readers continue to use text features and visual information to predict and connect to content, but now they begin monitoring their comprehension; determining key ideas; asking mental questions about the content; noting differences and similarities; visualizing people, places, and events; rereading what is unclear; and, often when reading school texts, taking notes to aid retention. Figure 1.2 compares the skills used by a fluent reader during the reading process with those lacking in a struggling reader.
After finishing a text, fluent readers begin to reflect on what they have read. Fluent readers continue to monitor their comprehension to decide whether to reread parts that may still be confusing or unclear. With informational texts, they may begin to question the validity and reliability of main points or persuasive arguments. Fluent readers may question sources and do further research about the topic. Figure 1.3 compares the skills that fluent readers use after reading with those lacking in a struggling reader.
Obviously, when the entire reading process is considered, struggling readers may lack skills and strategies needed to make literal sense of texts. However, even if readers have acquired these skills and can read fluently, they still may not be able to read critically, especially with historical texts. Reading history as an expert means acting as an investigator who attempts to reconstruct the past from multiple documents, all of which have their own subtexts. General Reading
Grades 2-3 Center Activities for Reading
Last edited Aug 17, 2006 - Note created Jul 17, 2006 Student Center Activities Grades 2-3 - www.fcrr.org/Booklists, Read Alouds
Graphic Organizers
Pen Pals
Author Studies
Vocabulary: puzzles and word activities using greek and latin roots, thematic features, non-sequitors - supplemental word activities and encounters
Reading Answers.com
for Parents and Teachers
Addressing special needs, working with parents, ideas and lesson plans, assessing assessments,GT projects, vocab power, writing to support reading, grammar, Shakespeare, links
Reading difficulties or disabilities, read with me, school partnerships, measuring achievement,elan tech test Copernicus's Teacher-Without-a-Room Collection. Great Selection of Whiteboards, Chalk Boards, Bullet
www.white-boards-and-more.com/asp/show_collection.... Teachers' Reading/Writing Carts
Book Lists & Specific Book Resources
Below is the 2007-2008 Alaska Battle of the Books list. The books selected try to include a blance of fiction and non-fiction for each grade area. Also, they try to include a few lower, middle, and higher level titles. They also try to mix some old with new. They try to add a biography and also try to add an Alaskan title. It's quite a process to balance all the titles.
K-2 Titles Book lists for intermediate and middle school readers
Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Goodnight Nobody: A Novel
www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=5... summer reading author J Weiner
Gemma Townley
Mary Kay Andrews
Into the Wardrobe :: a C. S. Lewis web site - cslewis.drzeus.net
Skills Resources
Red Cubes:(Before Reading)
What do the pictures on the cover tell you about the story? What do the pictures in the book tell you about the story? What would you like to find out in the story? What questions do you have about the story? How might this story relate to your life? Identify any unfamiliar words in the title. Is the story Fiction or Nonfiction? What does the title tell you about the story? Who is the author? Who is the illustrator? Predict what will happen in the story. What background do you bring to the story? Green Cubes:(During Reading) How was a problem solved? How can you relate to the story? What is the main idea of the story? Summarize the story. Identify a paragraph that used descriptive writing. How does the story end? How might you retell the story? Why? How might you end the story differently? How are you and the main character different? How are you and the main character alike? What lessons can you learn from the story? Retell a main event within the story. Blue Cubes:(After Reading) Did the solution to one problem cause another to occur? Predict how the story will end. Which character can you relate to so far? Why? How does the story relate to your life? Choose a problem in the story. How could this problem have been avoided? What questions do you have about the story? Identify and predict how a problem may be solved. Who are the main characters? Where does the story take place? Identify one problem or conflict in the story. How would you attempt to solve a problem in the story? Find and define an unfamiliar word. Grammar Rock Lyrics
Between the Lions
Video Songs for Reading Skills Strategies for Content Reading Comprehension & Critical Thinking - includes lessons, organizers, sample text
Phonics and Word Study
Student Activity Center
by grade levels
Prek-k, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 DIBELs Words
interactives for CVC words, real/nonsense words, blending, word families and word identification Learning to Read
Resources for Language Arts and Reading Research: Balanced Literacy, Interesting Links, Interactive Lessons, Virtual Literature, Professional Organizations and Publications, Bok Publishers and Authors, Keep Informed, Recommended Books Literacy Lessons/Guides/Resources
FCRR center activities for grades 4-5
advanced phonics and fluency, vocabulary and comprehension Reading strategies that assist content area reading
paper folding links
-- Make a comic book of the story, picking out the main events to illustrate, or
choose your favorite scene.
-- Pretend you are a travel agent and want people to visit the place where you book was set. Create a brochure telling about the place and why they should visit. -- Make the story into a radio program or a puppet show, extra credit if you make puppets to go along with it. (c: -- Interview a character from the book and be sure to ask the important questions - Who, What, When, Where, Why and How -- For historical fiction pick a character from your story to dress up as and preform a short oral report about your book (this one is also fun for science fiction or fantasy) -- Make a timeline of important events from the book (and possibly illustrate them) -- Make a model of anything from the story (we have done this with Greek myths, it was great, one boy built a model of a Trojan horse out of popsicle sticks). Literature Guides for Picture Books and Novels
Interactive Workshops — Conversations in Literature
www.learner.org/channel/workshops/conversations/ Conversations in Literature
Reading with Meaning, Strategies that Work, 6 + 1
video professional development free Strategies that Work web resources
Note created Aug 1, 2006 Strategies that Work: Technology Integration Resources - www.mayer.cps.k12.il.us/...Mosaic of Thought - Reading with Meaning and Strategies that Work
HUGE resource of links for assessment, lesson plans, worksheets, report forms, staff development, writing, parents, and other info on reading EPS » Open the Doors to Content Area Literacy and Comprehension
www.epsbooks.com/dynamic/offers/2006-11_nonfiction... Educators Publishing Service - Link from ASCD
Making Connections
Red Rocket Readers
Einstein's Who, What, and Where
Lithgow Palooza Lessons for grades 5-6 in Reading, Spelling, English, Writing, and Miscellaneous
Also: scroll down for 4 Blocks, Lesson plans, student/parent pages 100 ways to respond to a written work
Awesome Stories Fast Find Subject Index
Interventions
The Savvy Teacher's Guide: Reading Interventions that Work
strategies for use in classroom, at home, with buddy, with peer Note created Aug 14, 2006 http://www.jimwrightonline.com/pdfdocs/brouge/rdngManual.PDF - www.jimwrightonline.com/... Fabulous site, with very specific interventions
Letter-Sound, Letter Writing, Phonol Awareness, Sounding out, Word Form Recog, Irreg Words, Connected Text, Listening Vocab, Letter combinations, adv phonics activities, Activity 'Bursts' Written Language
Reading: Switching Gears -- Reading Across the Curriculum Content Areas
www.ttms.org/content_area_reading/content_area_rea... Check along the left navigation bar for content related to reading and writing in the content areas, especially Writing Across the Curriculum, The Organizers, and The Posters
Mini-Offices--Great tools for students for writing, math, and more....
www.busyteacherscafe.com/mini_offices.htm Scroll down about halfway through the page for downloadable forms to use with mini-writing offices and mini-math offices
Welcome to WritingFix: Reading Strategies for Content Area Teachers at WritingFix
writingfix.com/Reading_In_The_Content_Areas.htm REading in the Content Areas Guide: Strategies for helping struggling readers in grades4-12
under development - check back Oct 1 2006 WritingFix
interactive prompts with menus to help inspire writer's blocked students
prompts categorized in links Welcome to WritingFix: Picture Books and the 6 Traits
www.writingfix.com/Picture_Books_and_Traits.htm#le... Interactive Writing Fix lessons based on picture books, categorized by 6 + 1 trait
CHECKLIST FOR WRITERS I planned my paper before writing it. I revised my paper to be sure that the central idea of my paper is clear; the central idea of my paper is elaborated; everything in my paper talks about my central idea; my paper is logically organized so readers will understand my message; my words and information make my paper interesting to readers; and my sentences make sense, sound like me, and read smoothly. I edited my paper to be sure that I used good grammar; I used capital letters and punctuation marks correctly; I made my spelling correct; and I let my readers know where I started new paragraphs. I checked my paper to make sure that it is the way that I want readers to read it. Primarily Primary
Planting a Literacy Garden
Comprehension Strategies for K-2 Star Words Center Activities
K-1 Center Activities for Reading
Sight Words
Kindergarten
first grade
other sight word lists Montessori free site for primary children with interactive lessons
Teacher Sites
Mrs. Karen Harris - Powerpoints for Practice & Learning
www.nthurston.k12.wa.us/education/components/scrap... Phonics and Reading Helpers PowerPoints
Name the Lower Case Letters, Sight Word Practice, Word Combos and Blend Words Amazing! Classroom Library - includes printable labels for book bins
Testing Related
StemStar
Washington State Literary Site
developed to help construct questions for reading test stems Minis for reading and math - downloadable masters
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