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Motivating Reluctant Writers With Journals

A Pedagogical Response to the Aurora Shootings: 10 Critical Questions about Fictional Representations of Violence. English Companion Ning - Where English teachers go to help each other. Literary Terms. Web English Teacher. Scaffolding Complex Texts Strategies. The explicit teaching of reading strategies helps students to become increasingly skillful at interpreting, understanding, and analyzing text.

Scaffolding Complex Texts Strategies

As with any new skill, these reading strategies should be taught through a scaffolding method, which includes modeling the strategy, providing students with opportunities for guided practice with the strategy, and then having students independently apply the strategy. Because students have different reading styles, they are not likely to find all reading strategies equally useful. While a particular strategy may reinforce a strength that one student has or may provide the key to overcoming a reading difficulty, the same strategy may prove to be cumbersome or tedious to another student. For this reason, the explicit teaching of reading strategies should also include opportunities for students to reflect on the effectiveness of the strategy.

By considering questions such as: How does this strategy help me to understand the text? Five close reading strategies to support the Common Core. I walked in to my first college class, Political Science 101, eager to learn.

Five close reading strategies to support the Common Core

For my inaugural college assignment, my professor asked the class to read the first three chapters of the textbook for the next class period. That night, I returned to my dorm room, determined to learn everything I could in those three chapters. I pulled out my textbook and highlighter. Growing up, that is what I always saw the “older kids” using when they read a textbook. In my naïve 18-year-old mind, I believed that highlighters must have some magical power that transports the words on the page directly to your brain. However, when I opened my textbook it was unlike anything I had read in high school.

I shrugged, pulled out my highlighter and started highlighting. I quickly realized that I had no real game plan for reading this complicated textbook. Flash forward to my first few years of teaching. Last fall, I attended an AVID workshop about critical reading strategies. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. . · Ask questions. Analyzing Primary Sources. TED: Ideas worth spreading.