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Great reading strategies: ‘First lines’ for developing comprehension Throughout the summer I’ve been posting a series of posts looking at communicative classroom reading strategies. I’ve started each post with this little bit of blurb explaining my thinking behind the series, as well as what you can expect to find in each post. Although this is now the sixth post of the series, please feel free to read on (you should probably skip this section if you’ve read my previous entries in the series). As far as I’m concerned, when implementing strategy training of this kind in your classes teacher demonstration, modeling, and follow-up independent practice are all critical factors for success. I’d also say that learner discussion following strategy instruction is also helpful. For more on what I consider to be fundamental considerations in using reading strategies, please take a look at the opening paragraphs in the first post in this series.
CAIS21stcentury - List of 21st Century Skills Cooperation '''Cooperation, co-operation, or coöperation''' is the process of working or acting together, which can be accomplished by both intentional and non-intentional agents. In its simplest form it involves things working in harmony, side by side, while in its more complicated forms, it can involve something as complex as the inner workings of a human being or even the social patterns of a nation. It is the alternative to working separately in competition. Cooperation can also be accomplished by computers, which can handle shared resources simultaneously, while sharing processor time. Cooperation, more formally speaking is how the components of a system work together to achieve the global properties. Three Questioning Strategies for Any Lesson Teachers know—questions play a different role, depending on when they're used. Questions are a way to motivate, set goals, stimulate thinking, convey purpose, and create a positive learning environment. Questions inspire thinking and reflection, allow students to review what they're learning, involve students in evaluating their understanding of implicit and explicit learning, and encourage students to think ahead – to predict, anticipate, problem solve, and identify trends and patterns. Questions prompt students to summarize what they learned, make analogies, reflect, draw conclusions, incorporate new learning with prior learning, and extend learning. In her ASCD Annual Conference session, Sandra Page presented several questioning strategies that can be used at all stages of a lesson:
Scaffolding Complex Texts Strategies The explicit teaching of reading strategies helps students to become increasingly skillful at interpreting, understanding, and analyzing text. As with any new skill, these reading strategies should be taught through a scaffolding method, which includes modeling the strategy, providing students with opportunities for guided practice with the strategy, and then having students independently apply the strategy. Because students have different reading styles, they are not likely to find all reading strategies equally useful. While a particular strategy may reinforce a strength that one student has or may provide the key to overcoming a reading difficulty, the same strategy may prove to be cumbersome or tedious to another student. For this reason, the explicit teaching of reading strategies should also include opportunities for students to reflect on the effectiveness of the strategy.
Close Reading | Elementary School Passages and Lessons | | Middle School Passages and Lessons | | High School Passages and Lessons | |How to Teach Close Reading| 21 Cool Anchor Charts To Teach Close Reading Skills Posters to introduce or reinforce skill development. The Art of Close Reading Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 These three articles from How to Read a Paragraph analyze what students must do and what they must avoid doing in order to read a text effectively. Bringing the Common Core Standards to Life in the Classroom Scroll to page 3 of this document for a discussion of close reading and the PARCC assessments and for discussion of the G.I.S.T. and "Somebody Wanted But So" strategies. Close Reading Jigsaw In this YouTube video (2:30) a teacher demonstrates close reading in the elementary school classroom using a jigsaw strategy.
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Draft 21st Century Skills List « Skills for the 21st Century Below is a list we’ve collected of the ‘meta-skills’/cognitive skills Adults will need to Succeed in the 21st Century. These were drafted by a small group of Tech folks at the Center for Literacy Studies and then added to/refined some at COABE 2010. We plan to update this list based on blog discussions, research we find, and comments on this page. please let us know what you think! Purple were added at COABE – the most recent update. *We think teaching these skills is a real challenge and would welcome ideas! Like this: A quick overview of the Hero’s Journey » Jordan McCollum Planning out a novel? Be sure to join my newsletter for a FREE plotting/revision roadmap, and check out the full series on plotting novels in a free PDF! Over the last two weeks, we’ve looked at two plotting methods. One helped us parse our story into parts, the other helped us grow it from an idea.
Motivating Reluctant Writers With Journals UserID: iCustID: IsLogged: false IsSiteLicense: false UserType: anonymous Home - Media: Meaning & Message - Digital Learning Commons at South Portland High School "Media literacy is the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, CREATE, and ACT using all forms of communication." National Association for Media Literacy Education "Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate, create and participate with messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy."
Reading Comprehension Worksheets "Your reading comprehension materials are the best I've found on the web. They are so thorough and comprehensive! My students and I have learned a lot from them. Thanks so much!" Four Major Shifts in Literacy This video mini-series has been designed to provide an efficient pathway for understanding and implementing the most significant shifts in English/language arts and literacy instruction. Ranging from seven to ten minutes in length, each video tackles one important topic and then provides tools that educators can begin using in their classrooms immediately. The order in which the videos are watched in not critical, so please feel free to start with the one that seems the most intriguing. Major Shift 1: Emphasizing Informational Text The Common Core State Standards insist on the use of more information texts throughout the school day. This video discusses why and provides educators guidance on where to find high-quality informational texts.
Free Flash Jeopardy Review Game The Instant Jeopardy Review Game has been designed and dramatically improved to make it the perfect review game for a wide variety of classroom uses. This tool is a fun and interactive way to review content in your classroom, meeting, conference, or other group setting. The new and improved version of the Jeopardy Review Game includes the following features: Simple insertion of pictures on Question and/or Answer slides Full support for symbols, such as exponents and wingdings style fonts Better support for foreign language Question and/or Answer slides Simpler visual editing process Embed anything in your question slides, even Youtube videos, flash objects, etc. Simple scorekeeping system Works on portable devices such as smartphones, iPad, and iPod Touch!