Importance of Reading Across Content Areas
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This document discusses strategies for helping students understand what they read across different content areas. It describes several pre-reading activities designed to build students' background knowledge, such as a "Tea Party" where students discuss index cards related to an upcoming text. The document then discusses the importance of activating prior knowledge in three categories: topic knowledge, text structure knowledge, and vocabulary knowledge. It also recommends frontloading strategies where teachers preview texts with students through discussion and modeling their own thinking before reading occurs.
Importance of Reading Across Content Areas
- 1. Importance of ReadingImportance of Reading Across Content AreasAcross Content Areas How can we help our students understand what they read? Sandy Ness PAR Mentor Reading Coach
- 2. PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness Learning Target: I understand some reading strategies that can be used to foster understanding for student interactions with texts.
- 3. Tea PartyTea Party Directions: Each person should have one index card. Get up and meet with one person at a time. Share your card with as many people as possible. Listen to others as they read their cards. Discuss how these cards might be related. Return to table when you have heard everyone’s card. PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 4. Group Talk:Group Talk: With your table partners, speculate on what these cards, collectively, might be about. Make sure each group member’s voice is heard. We will share out. (4 minutes for this activity) PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 5. So B. ItSo B. It by Sarah Weeksby Sarah Weeks PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 6. Silent Tea PartySilent Tea Party https ://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/pre- reading-strategies PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 7. 3 Types of Prior Knowledge3 Types of Prior Knowledge 1. Knowledge about the topic 2. Knowledge about the structure and organization of the text 3. Knowledge about vocabulary PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 8. Frontloading Reversing the Lesson Triangle Historical design Current design Assignment Read Discussion to see if students read and if they remember & understand the proper concepts Frontloading pre-reading activities: discussion, prediction, questioning, brainstorming, vocabulary Guided Active Silent Reading Discussion to clarify, reinforce & extend PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 9. •The Teacher first previews the text •Talk and read around the selection with the students, like a tour guide! •Note important features • Make your thinking about the text “transparent” PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 10. WHY SHOULD I READ?WHY SHOULD I READ? How do you respond? Is literacy valued by the students? Who are their reading role models? PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 11. HOW TEACHERS SHOULDHOW TEACHERS SHOULD NOTNOT TO ANSWER!TO ANSWER! You want a good grade don’t you? We have always read this book at this school. Reading this book/chapter will make you more culturally literate. This book/chapter is required in the curriculum/focused instruction guide. Because I am the teacher and I said so. PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 12. Say SomethingSay Something You will need a partner. Each of you should have a text and a copy of the rules. Once you have read them, you may begin. You will have 10 minutes to complete the activity. PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
- 13. Online Resources for TextsOnline Resources for Texts Dogo News http://www.dogonews.com/ Tween Tribune http://tweentribune.com/ Tumblereadbles (user: mpls password:login) http://www.tumblebookcloud.com/home.as px PAR Reading PD-Sandy Ness
Editor's Notes
- #9: Beyond Assigning and Retelling…. *Instructional blueprint- the historical design passed down thru the ages: assign the text to read…assign questions for homework *Q&A or the Telling routine… dominant interaction pattern- this is where we tell them what the material they read was all about- we explain the ideas and info that they encountered in print… Goodlad’s study supports this image..he noted that this practice increases steadily from primary to senior high- Teacher often “outtalks” students 3:1 ratio(studied 1000 classrooms) Refer to lesson template in participants handouts… a quick way to design a lesson using the triangle as a guide.