Appendix 4

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POSSIBLE LITERACY & NUMERACY STRATEGIES

Comprehension/reading strategies

KWL chart – build on prior knowledge & focus on SLO’s Preview text Anticipation exercise Keyword list /notebook Verbal visual square School dictionary – model good practice & encourage students to use it Skim – get the gist Scan – finds specific information Visualise – pictures, symbols Highlighter – select important text Post-its – summarise Graphic organisers – record main points information Cloze tests – discuss possible solutions Main idea chart – finding main idea in a paragraph 321 chart Think, pair, share Mindmaps – recall/summarise SQ3R – to study in detail, survey, question, read, review, recall BUG – answer questions, box what you are asked to do, underline important words and go back over to make

sure you answered the question Student “I can” evaluation -checklist of strategies mastered JCSP whole school literacy strategy

Speaking & listening – oral text types

Oral reports & presentations Storytelling and Anecdotes Arguments and Informal Debates Discussions Extended Conversations Partner and Small Group Work – pair share, placemat exercise Interviews Meetings Interest Talks – guest speaker & accompanying worksheet

Writing genres – Note: check out the format used by other subject departments as they may be different

Letter - of application, thank you........ E-mail – protocol and etiquette Recount – diary of work placement Report Persuasive - advertisements Procedure Explanation Dictionary, thesaurus, spelling strategies, grammar, punctuation, proofreading

Numeracy strategies

Investigate possible useful resources on www.projectmaths.ie Play Freerice.com to enhance mental arithmetic JCSP whole school numeracy strategy JCSP numeracy resources “I can posters” Agreed common use of calculator LUVE 2 C U problem solving approach: Look carefully @ problem, underline key words, visualise problem,

estimate answers, choose information to use, calculate answers, u are great!

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Anticipation Exercise

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NameDateTopicScore Before After

Agree Disagree Statement Agree Disagree

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Instructions: Guess answers, read passage, answer again, compare results before & after

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Skimming should help you to:

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Skimming

read more quickly decide whether you want/need to read something in more detail think about your reading and ask questions

Skimming means reading something very quickly just to get an idea of what it is about.

Just skim over the surface of it to find the main point and don’t read every detail.

You need to be quite good at reading before you try skimming.

1 Start off with a short piece e.g. a short text task. As usual, get as much information as you can before you begin. What sort of piece is it? What is the title? Is there a picture or diagram to help?

2 Let your eyes move over it quickly looking out for important words. Don’t bother with little words like ‘the’, ‘to’ and ‘are’ or the descriptive words like ‘very’.

3 Find out as much as you can as quickly as you can.

Tips Don’t read every word. Don’t read every sentence. Let your eyes move quickly. Keep thinking about the meaning.

4 Now try skimming the whole article. Concentrate on: the title any diagram/pictures the first paragraph the last paragraph the first line of the other paragraphs

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How To Scan

Ask someone to read this with you if you need to.

If you want just one piece of information from a text (e.g. name, an address, the time of a TV programme or a word you want to spell) you need to scan for it. This means looking through very quickly without really reading the words. All you have to do is find the word(s) you want.Look at the list below. Tick the things you would use scanning for:

reading instructionsfinding a telephone numbermfinding out who a letter is fromreading a bookfinding a street on a maplooking up the time of a busfinding a plumber in yellow pagesfinding a word in the dictionarystudying an agreementchecking that a cheque has been signed

Steps for ScanningThink about what you are scanning for.Write it down and try to get a picture of it in your mind.Keep thinking about what you are looking for and let your eye run over the page.Don’t read the words. Don’t read the sentences. Just look.If you don’t find it first time, try again.Keep thinking about the words you want and keep your eyes moving quickly.If you don’t do it quickly then you are not really scanning, you’re stopping to read the other words.

You might need a lot of practice before you can scan well, but it will save you time in the end. It’s very useful for looking up all sorts of things.If you are not good at reading yet, you can still scan. Try finding words you know well, like Liverpool or your own name, in a page of writing.

Now try some of the scanning exercises.

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Key Word & Scanning Exercise

1. Scan the handout and find the following key wordsCircle each word

Questions Answers

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Placemat

Exercise

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GRAPHIC ORGANISERSSOME EXAMPLES