Content-Area+Reading

"They can't read!" Not true! Many students need their teachers to facilitate their reading experience in order to make sense of their reading and judge what is most important.
[| RoundRobinReading.pdf] Is Round Robin or "popcorn" reading a common strategy used in your classroom? This article challenges the effectiveness of this long-standing method, and offers alternatives that are more instructionally sound. Available at [|Literacy Lane] (Author: Jeanette Mulholland, Reading Specialist, Jefferson County Schools). [|ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies] Instructions and printable graphic organizers for a variety of content-area reading strategies. [|GIST Summarizing, from the Knowledge Loom] In the Lesson Plan selector, select Grade Band 6-8, Learning Through Language, Content Reading, then scroll down to the "GIST Summarizing" lesson plan. Look around for other helpful lesson plans that help build students' content-area reading strategies. [|Somebody Wanted But So summarizing strategy]