Content Area Reading Strategies

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Content Area Reading Strategies

• Establishing Purpose
• Questioning
• H.U.G.

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• . . . Only the top 20 percent or so of readers
  move through school automatically mastering the
  skills necessary to find meaning in difficult
  text . . . Many of the rest . . . begin to
  languish as their reading assignments become too
  formidable.
• McGrath, A. (2006 February 28). A new read on
  teen literacy. U.S. News and World Report.

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Establishing Purpose

• Aids comprehension
• Sets a target level of comprehension
• Suggests how to reach the target or destination

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Establishing Purpose

• FORMAT
• Read in order to (level of
  understanding)
• so that you can (task to complete
  after reading).

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Establishing Purpose

• Read in order to understand the cause and effect
  chain link events leading up to Lexington and
  Concord.
• Read in order to compare and contrast the
  British/Colonial tactics with the French/Indian
  tactics during the French and Indian War.

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Establishing Purpose

• Read in order to explain the main steps in the
  process of photosynthesis.
• Read so that you can debate the problem posed in
  this article and the authors solution.

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Establishing Purpose

• Read to prepare for seminar discussion on the
  roles of women during the Revolutionary Era.

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Asking Questions

• Premise
• After you have previewed the section.
• Whats this section about?
• Key questions
• As you read each section.
• What does the author want you to understand
  about this section of the chapter?

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Asking Questions

• Clarifying questions
• As you read each section.
• Does this make sense? Can I see how the details
  elaborate on the subtopics?
• Contradictory questions
• If you encounter an opposing viewpoint
• Does everyone agree on this position, or have
  you found examples of opposing viewpoints?

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Asking Questions

• Clarifying question
• Connect to what they already know
• Connect to other ideas discovered in the preview

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Asking Questions

• Early Mesoamerican Civilizations
• The Olmec
• The Rise of the Olmec Civilization
• Gulf Coast Geography
• Olmec Society
• Trade and Commerce
• Decline of the Olmec

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• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• A Century of Crisis
• Romes Economy Weakens
• Inflation
• Military and Political Turmoil

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HUG Marking Your Text

• H Highlight main ideas
• maximum 20 of text
• first line is MI most of time
• eight lines on average page
• key concepts only
• worth re-reading

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HUG Marking Your Text

• U Underline details
• key words
• steps in a process
• definitions
• names/dates

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HUG Marking Your Text

• G Get it in your own words
• summarize text in margin
• write notes to yourself
• number steps
• create charts of complex inf.
• i. d. location of ideas
• --definition
• --examples
• --names/dates
• important ideas