Resources
- Into the Book: Strategies for Learning http://reading.ecb.org/teacher/strategies.html
Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies:- Using prior knowledge
- Making connections
- Questioning
- Visualizing
- Inferring
- Summarizing
- Evaluating
- Synthesizing
- student Web site featuring interactive reading comprehension activities
- teacher Web site featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and lots more
- Into the Book video series: nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers
- Behind the Lesson video series: nine 10-minute professional development videos that model effective ways of teaching the learning strategies
- Improving K-3 Reading Comprehension
- Comprehension Strategies Bookmarks Attached Files:
- Bookmarks for strategies.pdf (14.272 KB)
- CA6318DEE576432F97D532537FCD17A5(1).doc (122 KB)
- Somebody Wanted But So Attached Files:
- somebody wanted but so.pdf (16.882 KB)
- swbs.pdf (87.92 KB)
- WISH YOU WELL After-Reading Somebody Wanted But So.htm (33.411 KB)
- comprehension resources Attached Files:
- Book Talk Guide Sheet.doc (24 KB)
- Reading Response Journals.doc (105 KB)
- Share your Passion for Reading Through.doc (22.5 KB)
- Companion Website At the companion website you will find information concerning the following:
25 ideas to motivate young readers
reading workshop
Reading strategies
Reading rockets
- Visualization-The Beach Attached Files:
- The Beach.doc (22 KB)
- Busy Cafe
- Article: START Comprehending Attached Files:
- START.pdf (454.428 KB)
- Sentence Starters: Making Text-to-Self Connections Here is a minilesson on Youtube on Making Connections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDgiZ79KKK0
- Minilessons for Questioning Attached Files:
- Jennifer's25Mini-LessonsforAskingQuestions.pdf (89.295 KB)
- Reading Mini Lesson Resources This Wiki includes a collection of mini-lesson resources to go with the lessons in Laura Candler's Power Reading Workshop: A Step-by-Step Approach.You can learn more about the reading workshop approach at www.lauracandler.com/strategies/readingworkshop.php These resources were contributed by Nathania Vanderham and other members of the Empowering Readers discussion group, and they have not been edited or reviewed by Laura Candler. They are simply offered as helpful resources by teachers who are using the program.
- Check for Understanding Attached Files:
- Check Your Understanding - 9-1.ppt (546 KB)
ELA Attached Files:- ELA.docx (66.218 KB)