Before Reading (The whole text source or a section within a text source)
Activating Prior KnowledgeNothing can be learned if it is not connected to what a students already knows. Activate what students know already know about:
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PredictingBased on prior knowledge or what students have already studied, illustrations, summaries, etc., ask students to make predictions about:
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Previewing and QuestioningReading without a purpose means students never read to learn. Asking students to look at text features and develop questions provides them a chance to change that:
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During Reading: Helping students interact with the text
Making ConnectionsFor students to really understand what they are reading, they need to be able to make connections to the information. This can happen in multiple ways.
Here Vicki Curtis and Tamara Marks illustrate what it might look like for students to connect what they are reading to:
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Setting Up Close ReadingWhile teachers may find reading a natural habit, most students are still trying to figure out routines and methods to make sense of what they are reading.
Here Tamara Marks and Vicki Curtis illustrate how to provide that needed structure to help students really think about what they are reading. Here they:
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What Close Reading Looks Like Yeah, but...
What does it look like? Tamara Marks and Vicki Curtis illustrate what this process might look like in a classroom. This video attempts to help us understand how we might:
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Using Lexile Levels to Meet Student NeedA Lexile Level is a measure that attempts to help students and teachers understand the "text difficulty" a student can currently understand.
This is the measure used to help us say that a student reads at a certain grade level.
Our students have a variety of reading or lexile levels.
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If you want to meet students' needs while still focusing on the same content, try Newsela.
Newsela supports a variety of content areas and each article can be accessed at different Lexile Levels.
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Building Empathy, Understanding Different Perspectives
Evaluating Internet Resources"Almost anyone can publish anything they wish on the web."
While it is easy to say that you can't trust everything you see on the web, how do we help students determine the reliability and validity of what they find? This site lists questions students may ask to determine this. |
Media Bias & ReliabilityIn this time of "fake news," how do we help our students understand...
...the biased point of view different media sources take? ...the reliability of various media sources? Media Sources / Fact Check webpage might be a good starting place |
Online NewspapersDo you want your students to understand how different news agencies are reporting on current events?
Do you want your students to compare how different countries are reporting on current events? This website provides access to newspapers and magazines across the globe. |
Vista High School Resource Toolkit
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