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Reading Strategies
Question | Answer |
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A three-dimensional, student-made, interactive graphic organiser based upon a skill | Foldables |
Helps students condense their reading about specific topics to several key words or phrases and then combine the words or phrases into a sentence or two that incorporates all relevant information | Magnet Summaries |
Creating a 140-character summary after reading a passage, textbook, section, or article. | Tweet the Text |
A Google app used to create animated videos by dragging and dropping content into story-line templates. | PowToon |
a Google app used to create FlashCards that can be shared; cards can be moved into organised piles | Study Stack |
Asking students to demonstrate reading comprehension by providing them with a Role, Audience, Format, and Topic. | RAFT |
A student thinks about a topic before partnering up with another student to discuss it and share with the group. | Think-Pair-Share |
A strategy where students share sentences on four key topics charted in order to create a summary draft. | Group Summarising |
Teacher-created written guides for students to follow and fill-in as they read a selection. | Interactive Reading Guides |
Strategy where students write simultaneous notes to one another about what their reading; their "notes" are passed back and forth as they "converse" in writing. | Written Conversations |
A collaborative piece of writing made by students writing and adding to each other's writing until the stories are complete. | Progressive Writing |
Students rotate through stations with pictures, which they discuss as a group to determine what they already know about the topic to be discussed/studied. | Picture Walk |
A strategy where students are responsible for facilitating a discussion around ideas in text rather than asserting opinions. | Socratic Seminar |
A strategy where a teacher selects 8-15 words from an upcoming text for students to categorise; they use these words to create a summary and develop questions on the topic. | Vocabulary Predictions |
A brief set of questions that help students activate their prior knowledge, make predictions, and engage important issues. | Prereading Quiz |
Monitoring one's reading by marking key words/phrases and jotting down notes in the margin. | Annotating Text |