Agenda:
BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE
- Session Objectives
- Reflection: Understanding our Attitudes toward Content Area Reading
- Collaboration Guide/Guiding Questions: Collaboration Guide
Response to Video Clip: Mr. Holland's Opus: Video
- Discussion: If not ME...then WHO?
RESEARCH BASE FOR CONTENT AREA READING
- Overview of research surrounding content area reading
NON-FICTION TEXT STRUCTURES
- Descriptive
- Sequential
- Compare and Contrast
- Cause and Effect
- Problem and Solution
SIX INTERVENTIONS
- Overview of intervention
1. More time spent with non-fiction text
2. Vocabulary Instruction: Prefix_Suffix_Roots, Vocabulary Strategies
3. Graphic Organizers: Graphic Organizers
4. Direct Instruction of Collaborative Strategic Reading
5. Discussion Techniques: Discussion Techniques
6. Universal Design for Learning: Making Reading Accessible to ALL students
- UDL Strategies: Website
- UDL_Guidelines
- UDL Guidelines_Educators Checklist
- UDL Lesson Plan Template
- UDL_9th Grade Social Studies lesson plan
OTHER READING STRATEGIES
Reading_Thinking strategy bookmark
Glossary of Instructional Strategies
AdLit Site Reading Strategies
FCRR Reading Strategies
Reading Quest Reading Strategies
Journey North Reading Strategies
Text to Speech Resources:
LESSON PLANS
5-day Unit Plan for teaching Non-Fiction (Grades 2-4)
