Reading Stage Strategies

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Reading Stage Strategies

• How to be side by side with your students as they
  read, even at home.

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Reading Stage Strategies
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Option Guides

• Two choices
• Segment text read in short sections
• Art example
• Read entire text
• Example CAL 221
• Easy to create
• A little more challenging to evaluate
• Discussion is a good idea
• Lots of use at college level

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Options Guide-Dean Dass

• Were going to view a series of landscapes by the
  artist Dean Dass. All are oil paintings. All
  are images of various rivers, probably in the
  eastern United States. Dass is a contemporary
  artist working in Virginia.
• What visual image do you get when you think of
  river?

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Options Guide Dean Dass

• Moormans River, 2000oil on board16 x18"
• Where do you think this river is?
• What effect do the colors the artist has used
  have on you?
• How has the artist created a sense of movement in
  the water?

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Options GuideDean Dass 2

• How might you change the mood created by the
  artist in Moormans River?
• What would the effect of changing the perspective
  to a horizontal layout have on a representation
  of this same River?
• How might the artist change the season of the
  painting?

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Options GuideDean Dass
Moormans River, 1999oil on linen over board24 x
14"

• What has the artist done to change the mood
  created by his painting?
• What effect did the change of perspective have?
• How might you change one of your landscapes?

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Options GuideDean Dass

• Youve seen two landscapes by Dean Dass. The
  next landscape is an earlier work than either of
  the Mooremans River landscapes.
• What elements strike you as repeated themes in
  Dasss work?
• What do you predict might be differences between
  an earlier landscape and one painted two years
  later?

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Dean Dass Conneticut River, Thetford, 1998oil
on linen 22 x 22"

• What elements do you see repeated in the two
  later Moormans River landscapes?
• To what extent do you see a difference in
  movement between this landscape and the two
  later landscapes?
• What season do you think is represented in this
  painting?

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Say Something

• Very easy-little if any preparation
• Easy to apply in performance situations
• Basketball
• Art project
• Lab work
• Focuses student small group discussions on your
  objectives
• Can use in association with checklists of topics
  to discuss

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Radio Reading

• Alternative to Round Robin Reading
• Improves listening skills
• Promotes higher level comprehension
• Can be used to begin a reading in class
• Finish reading as homework
• Similar to Think Aloud/Questioning the
  Author/ReQuest
• Assists with processing during the act of reading

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Marginal Gloss

• Definitions
• Purpose setting questions
• Connections to background knowledge
• Stopping points for responses
• Reading instructions (skim, read carefully, etc.)
• Your own commentary

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Marginal Gloss-Kinesiology

• Enhance the cognitive/affective dimensions of
  skill development or training
• Use at skill stations
• Use in warm-ups/ cool-downs/stretching
• Material for task cards
• Laminate cardstock
• Use clip-art or scanned images

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Other marginal gloss--Kinesiology

• Can use as marginal gloss for materials that
  dont have adequate illustrationsl
• Paul Collins Article