Class Handout

Class Handout

By: Katie Haley

Faculty Workshop

Reading in the Content Area

Strategies

It is imperative that we use strategies in reading instruction. There are several available to teachers today but the key is for teachers to learn how to incorporate the proven strategies into their classes, and feel comfortable doing so.

Please use this hand out as a guide for not taking.

Strategies for Comprehension

Think-Alouds-____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Group notes-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Using Reciprocal Teaching to Model Comprehension Strategies-____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vocabulary Strategies

Use Vocabulary Self-collection Strategies-____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Concept of Definition Word Maps-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Using the Content to Approximate Meaning-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Group Notes-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Typographic Clues-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Syntactic and Semantic Clues-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Word Structure-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Using the Dictionary as a Strategic Resource-_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________