Spring strategies 2015Dr. Christine Ryall BBBS

LITERACY LESSONS #2

Begin where we ended…

•Scaffold …review the five components/turkey to flower!

• Let’s look at the items you had and why…

•Now, let’s look beyond the “Learning to Read”

• Focus on the “Reading to Learn”

•Begin with the PROCESS

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Processors in the Brain while reading…

•Phonological Awareness

•Pragmatic

•Semantic

•Syntactic

•Orthographic

Grey, white, brain matter and files to move around…to gain meaning and comprehension

What do we do BEFORE? During? After?

Strategies that allow us to prepare

•SKIM

•SCAN

•THIEVES

•FLIP

HANDOUT for THIEVES

•Title/ topic, Headings, Introduction/interest, Every first sentence, Visuals/vocabulary, End of chapter questions, Summary.

SUBSTITUTE with FLIP• FORM• Introduction

• Body

• Conclusion

• Language • Vocabulary

• Interest/topic/prior knowledge

• Punctuation and patterns • Cause/effect, Compare/contrast, Sequence, Process, Definition,

Analysis

FANBOYS…and connectors•Coordinating Conjunctions

•FOR, AND, NOR, BUT•OR, YET, SO

•SUBORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS

What should we work on DURING?

•Patterns…via Transitions and KEY WORDS

•Compare and contrast

•Cause and Effect

•Sequence/Time

•Process

COLORFUL CARDS•Color code the words•Look up samples on GOOGLE

•Then FLAG the TEXT…•Consider the relationships and predict the use

AFTER Reading •FOCUS ON THE RETELLING

•Consider the REVIEW with GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

•T Chart notes

•NOTE CARDS

•Go through the THIEVES sections

•DRAW for the visual learner…link to the prior chapters…prepare for next

Sample TEXT EXERCISE

•Relate this to COMPLEX TEXT

•Consider its usefulness in TESTING

•REDUCE reader ANXIETY

•APPLY the PROCESS to PREDICT