6-8 Content Area Reading

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6-8 Content Area Reading

• June 26th and 27th
• Wayland Middle School
• Jake Montwieler and Judy Merra

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Reading Standards for Literacy in History,
Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects

• Cite text evidence to support analysis of sources
• Determine central ideas or conclusions from a
  text
• Identify aspects of a text that reveal an
  authors purpose or point of view
• Integrate visual information (charts, graphs,
  diagram) with other information from print or
  digital texts
• By the end of grades 6-8, read and comprehend
  texts in the grades 6-8 text complexity band
  independently and proficiently

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Literacy BasicsPart 1

• What does it mean to comprehend?
• What skills do students need in order to
  comprehend?

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Levels of Comprehension

• Within the text
• Searching for and using information
• Beyond the text
• Inferring
• Synthesizing
• About the text
• Analyzing
• Critiquing

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What skills do students need in order to
comprehend?

• Access background knowledge
• Analyze type of text
• Access new vocabulary
• Determine what is important
• Synthesize information from the text
• Infer what the author doesnt say

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What happens when students dont have these
skills?
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Literacy BasicsPart 2

• What strategies can we teach students to help
  them comprehend?

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Tools for Reading Comprehension

• Before
• Access schema
• Predict
• Introduce vocabulary
• During
• Monitor comprehension
• Connect
• Infer
• Visualize
• Determine importance
• After
• Synthesize
• Summarize
• Determine Importance
• questioning with post-its

Q U E S T I O N I N G
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Literacy BasicsPart 3

• How to support vocabulary understanding
• How to choose the right text

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Vocabulary

• 4 Types of Vocabulary
• Listening
• Speaking
• Reading
• Writing

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Strategies for Teaching New Vocabulary

• Teach vocabulary within the context of the
  reading
• List-group-label
• Word Analogies
• Knowledge rating scale
• Student VOC Strategies

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Choosing the Right Text

• Genre
• Structure
• Content
• Themes and ideas
• Vocabulary
• Text features

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Either...Broaden the range of text Change
the format for discussion
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Website for On-Line Reading

• http//blog.commoncore.org/category/history-social
  -studies/