Comprehension occurs as the reader integrates

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Comprehension occurs as the reader
integrates prior knowledge and current
purposes with explicit and implicit Text ideas
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Think, Pair, Share

• What steps do you follow in
• planning a lesson?
• How do your steps compare and
• contrast to these 5 steps?

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Textbooks Friend or Foe?

• The 3 most egregious features
• Concept Density
• Organization
• Sentence Construction

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About Hybridization

• Original Although each new species was greeted
  with enthusiasm, the first hybrid orchids that
  appeared were met with both amazement and
  skepticism, for such an achievement was once
  thought impossible.

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Revised

• Orchid growers once thought hybridization was
  impossible. They greeted each new species with
  enthusiasm as well as amazement and skepticism.

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About Autism Crucial Concepts

• Autism
• Ambiguous symptoms
• Delayed language
• Circumference
• Frontal Cortex
• Complex cognitive functions

• Guidance of experience
• Neural noise
• Genetic
• Prenatal biological cause
• Toxins

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What makes an effective strategy effective?

• Linking current knowledge and experience to new
  information pattern building
• Active processing organizing, reworking,
  manipulating new information and skills
• Applying new information and skills in an altered
  context
• Social interaction enhances pattern building

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Practical applications for Six Hat Thinking

• Reader responses and cooperative learning
• Journaling
• Small and large group discussions
• Writing a comparison and contrast essay

• Persuasive essay
• Panel discussion
• A strategy for going deeper into six facets
• Meetings and decision making