40 strategies for guiding readers through informational texts
By: Barbara Moss, Virginia S. Loh-Hagan
Contributors: Loh-Hagan, Virginia, author
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781462526093
Subjects: Reading comprehension; Study and teaching; Activity programs
Other titles: Forty strategies for guiding readers through informational texts
Description: "Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step by step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: I. Getting Started Strategies; title: Strategy 1. Planning a Lesson with Informational Text; title: Strategy 2. Understanding and Evaluating Informational Texts; title: Strategy 3. Assessing Text Complexity; title: Strategy 4. Shared Reading and Text Feature Search; title: II. Building Background Strategies; title: Strategy 5. Anticipation Guide; title: Strategy 6. KWHL: K = (What I Know), W = (What I Want to Know). H = (How I Will Find Out), L = (What I Learned); title: Strategy 7. KLEW: K = (What I Know), L = (What I Learned), E = (What Evidence Do I Have for My Learning?), W = (What Additional Questions or Wonderings Do I Have?); title: Strategy 8. Table of Contents Prediction; title: Strategy 9. Imagine, Elaborate, Predict, and Confirm; title: III. Vocabulary Strategies; title: Strategy 10. Word Map; title: Strategy 11. SLAP: S = (Say the word and write it here.), L = (Look for context clues. List them here.), A = (Ask myself what it means and write it here.), P = (Put the synonym in the sentence and write it here. Does it make sense? If not, start over with steps 3 and 4.); title: Strategy 12. Root Wheel; title: Strategy 13. List-Group-Label; title: Strategy 14. Word Sort; title: Strategy 15. Semantic Feature Analysis; title: IV. Reading Closely Strategies; title: Strategy 16. Close Reading; title: Strategy 17. Close Thinking; title: Strategy 18. Text Annotation; title: Strategy 19. Text Dependent Questions; title: Strategy 20. Thinking Aloud; title: Strategy 21. Sticky Notes Bookmark; title: V. Comprehension Strategies; title: Strategy 22. Study Guide; title: Strategy 23. Four Box Comment Card; title: Strategy 24. I Chart; title: Strategy 25. CAATS: Creator, Assumptions, Audience/User, Time and Place, Significance; title: Strategy 26. Text Structures; title: Strategy 27. Interactive Notebook; title: VI. Discussion Strategies; title: Strategy 28. Discussion Web; title: Strategy 29. 4-3-2-1 Discussion; title: Strategy 30. Intra Act; title: Strategy 31. Talking Points; title: Strategy 32. Three Step Interview; title: Strategy 33. 3 Minute Pause; title: VII. Writing Strategies; title: Strategy 34. Readers' Theatre; title: Strategy 35. Paragraph Writing Frames; title: Strategy 36. I Used to Think. but Now I Know.; title: Strategy 37. Summary Writing; title: Strategy 38. CLIQUES: CL, Claim; I, Introduction of Quotation; QU, Quotation; E, Explanation of Quotation; S, So What?; title: Strategy 39. EPIC: E, Evidence; P, Patterns; I, Inquiry; C, Claims; title: Strategy 40. Two Column Journal; title: Appendix. Recommended Materials.