You might try scrolls and textmapping.
* When you unroll a scroll on your blackboard, you and your students can
work with whole portions of text -- such as chapters. Scrolls present book
content as continuous and complete. Everyone can see the entire text. This
enables real top-down thinking, reinforced by rich, direct, sensory access
to the full text. Scrolls are a simple, inexpensive, and powerful tool for
both content-area and comprehension strategies instruction (such as
determinging importance, and SQ3R).
* Textmapping is a simple and powerful graphic organizer technique. Unlike
most graphic organizers, which are implemented off of the text (such as on a
separate piece of paper), textmapping is done directly on the text. This
links comprehension -- and the thinking that goes into it -- directly and
explicitly to the text.
The learning that comes from these methods is rapid and persistent.
Scrolls and textmapping together place students in a flexible, intuitive,
richly multisensory, and learner-friendly environment for hands-on discovery
of the comprehension strategies described in books such as Mosaic of Thought
(Keene & Zimmermann), Strategies that Work (Harvey & Goudvis), Reading With
Meaning (Miller), I Read It, But I Don't Get It (Tovani), and How to Stay in
College (Pauk).
I hope that you will give it a try.
More information:
* An introductory piece:
http://www.textmapping.org/whWorkshopNotes.html#introductionHead
* Teacher comments: http://www.textmapping.org/comments.html
* Main Site: http://www.textmapping.org
Dave Middlebrook
The Textmapping Project
A resource for teachers improving reading comprehension skills instruction.
www.textmapping.org | Please share this site with your colleagues!
USA: (609) 771-1781
dmiddlebr...@textmapping.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lascelia Cadienne Dacres" <ldal...@fau.edu>
To: <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:30 AM
Subject: [MOSAIC] Comprehension in Content Areas
Hello Everyone,
I am a Learning Team Facilitator (curriculum specialist) and I work with
other teachers in the various content areas such as social studies, math,
and science etc. At my middle school, we want our students to use the same
strategies in their different classes.We believe it will be easier for
students to see how reading strategies are relevant outside of their
reading class. As Reading Specialists, teachers with a reading background,
your suggestions are very important. What are some comprehension
strategies that you think will work well in the content areas described
above? and why?
Thank you in Advance for your Responses,
Lascelia Dacres
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