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"Opening Up the Textbook"
This reading strategy allows students to look into different perspectives on the same topic. While a textbook may portray one side of the story, a newspaper, journal, letter, or even an image may portray something completely different. Different perspectives encourage students to form their own ideas and opinions based on what they have read. By comparing and contrasting different sources students learn multiple perspectives. |
Jigsaw
Through jigsaw strategy students learn from each other. Students are broken up into small groups, about 3 or 4. Each student is assigned a different section of the assigned reading and their job is to distinguish the main points from their section. Then students regroup with students from other groups who were assigned the same reading section to discuss their findings, comments, or questions. Finally, students will return to their original groups and piece all sections together to form one cohesive review of their readings. |
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Falling Dominoes (Cause & Effect)
Our history textbook is organized in a sequential matter, how one event lead to another. The falling dominoes strategy demonstrates how one event triggered another event. Think of dominoes lined up in a row, if one domino gets tipped over, the rest are sure to fall too, in our class this demonstrates cause and effect. |
Margin Notes With any reading it is always a good idea to annotate your text. Writing in your margins can be various strategies, for example highlighting, drawing connections, questions about the text, needs for clarification, or summarizing. Making margins notes is a great strategy for students to quickly jot down their ideas about a text and reference back to them. |
Foldables Foldables are great 3-dimensional study organizers. Students are able to review information through a self created medium. Students encourage students to use their creative skills to personalize their study guides. There are many forms of foldables for students to choose when trying to organize the main ideas from their readings. |
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Foldables being utalized in a middle school language arts classroom.
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Jigsaw strategy being applied on an economics lesson on different types of businesses.
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The following lesson plans also incorporate different reading and writing strategies in the classroom.
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