Another thing to remember is that Reading Guides can be developed to help students look at or analyze almost anything. I have had success using them with movies, works of art, or class lectures. One final thought is that I sometimes call my reading guides quizzes. Since our students rarely do the assigned reading at home, I use these quizzes to force students to process the text as they work their way through the assignment. This is a strategy that stimulates higher order thinking by requiring students to generate there own questions about the text.
Students can then use their questions to launch class discussions.
It provides a systematic way of approaching informational texts and helps students develop a mental schema for structuring their reading. Click Here to find a variety of Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers can be extremely helpful to readers because of the way in which they structure thinking. Good graphic organizers are fairly intuitive, tapping into something almost archetypal in how people think. They are therefore excellent tools for helping kids process text. If you do, they become the dreaded worksheet that most students hate.