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Title: 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
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