Mini-lessons for automatically adapting strategies to text
FALL
- Create conversation starters for predictions, inferences, questions, reactions, opinions, feelings, evidence and connections
"Discussion starters"
- "Observation and feedback record"
- Time management techniques
WINTER
- Describe aloud thinking processes
"RATA (read-aloud think-aloud)"
- Develop self-assessment checklists for literacy habits
"Think-aloud checklist"
- Ask why questions to evaluate purpose of different types of text
"Why, why, why chart"
SPRING
- Create stations to practice literacy habits
"Habit stations"
- Have students collaboratively work together and teach each other specific parts of the text
"Reciprocal teaching"
Note: All titles in quotations come from: Zwiers, J. (2005). Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: A toolkit of classroom activities. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
Mini-lessons for automatically adapting strategies to text
FALL
- Create conversation starters for predictions, inferences, questions, reactions, opinions, feelings, evidence and connections
"Discussion starters"
- "Observation and feedback record"
- Time management techniques
WINTER
- Describe aloud thinking processes
"RATA (read-aloud think-aloud)"
- Develop self-assessment checklists for literacy habits
"Think-aloud checklist"
- Ask why questions to evaluate purpose of different types of text
"Why, why, why chart"
SPRING
- Create stations to practice literacy habits
"Habit stations"
- Have students collaboratively work together and teach each other specific parts of the text
"Reciprocal teaching"
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Note: All titles in quotations come from: Zwiers, J. (2005). Building reading comprehension habits in grades 6-12: A toolkit of classroom activities. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.