Content Area Reading

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Content Area Reading

• Helping Students Understand

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Differences Story vs. Informational

• Organizational Patterns
• Text structure
• Vocabulary
• Technical language related to concepts
• Special Features
• Table of contents, index, glossary, charts,
  graphs, maps, diagrams, illustrations

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Step One Before Reading

• This step activates a knowledge base upon which
  students can build and establishes a purpose for
  reading.
• Strategies
• brainstorm predict skim assess prior
  knowledge preview headings learn crucial
  vocabulary
• KWL, KWL (includes writing or organizing of
  information), anticipation guide, PLAN

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Predict, Locate, Add, Note
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Step Two During Reading

• This step allows students to measure
  comprehension, clarify, visualize, and build
  connections.
• Strategiesreread infer question support
  predictions summarize
• Think Aloud, Retelling, Read-Rate-Reread, QAR
  (right there, think/search, author/me, on my own)

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Read, Rate, Reread
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Step 3 After Reading

• This step expands prior knowledge, builds
  connections, and deepens understanding.
• Strategies
• reread confirm predictions summarize
  synthesize reflect question
• Semantic map, journaling, teacher questions,
  quick writes, retelling

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Semantic Mapping
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Remember.

• Provide a series of important questions related
  to an expository reading assignment.
• Teach students to use the headings, subheadings,
  and graphics in expository text to locate support
  for the main idea.
• Focus students on specific information by opening
  class with a question of the day.

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Remember

• Train students to visually interpret expository
  text.
• Help students build a set of strategies that work
  for them.