INTERNET SEARCH: READING STRATEGIES TO SCAFFOLD ADOLESCENT READERS¶ COMPREHENSION OF TEXT
PRE-READING STRATEGIES: 1. Concept Definition Mapping This strategy is the extension of knowing the dictionarydefined meaning meaning of the word. word. It is mappings out of concepts concepts words to help students better understand the meaning of a word as it pertains to a reading selection. T h e Southwest Educational Development Laboratory or SEDL is a nonprofit organization that does educational research to help improve teaching. Their mission is to solve significant problems facing educational systems and communities communities to ensure a quality education for all learners. Building reading proficiency at the secondary level: a guide to resources. (2010). Retrieved from http://www.sedl.org/cgihttp://www.sedl.org/cgibin/mysql/buildingreading.cgi?sho bin/mysql/buildingreading.cgi?showrecord=12&l=d wrecord=12&l=description escription Word Splash This is a strategy that provides a framework for obtaining the student¶s prior knowledge before reading a selection. It develops the student¶s prediction skills. VELS provided other many reading strategies that was useful models to help when teaching reading.
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Vels Vels level 4 ± teaching reading using t he four resources model: code breaking . (2009, December 16). Retrieved from http://www.education.vic.gov http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teach .au/studentlearning/teachingresources/e ingresources/e nglish/literacy/strategies/4codebreakts nglish/literacy/strategies/4 codebreaktsl4.htm#3 l4.htm#3 3 . Reciprocal Teaching The use of predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing is four strategies used to perform reciprocal teaching. Best when used as a small group activity. It is a way for students to interact with teacher about the selected reading. Buzzle is a great site that provides articles, newsletters, newsletters , and just information to the general public about various topics. Reciprocal teaching strategies . (2010). Retrieved from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/reciproca http://www.buzzle.com/articles/reciprocal-teaching-strategies.htm l-teaching-strategies.htmll 4. KWL KWL is the strategy that works for pre, during, and post reading. K is what the students know. know. It focuses on the background
knowledge the student possess. W is what the students want to learn. It focuses on what the student expects to learn. L is what the student learned. KWL is an organizer that builds on scaffolding and support of the reader. This site was very informative. It gave an i n depth explanation of the strategy as well as examples of the organizational chart. Study guides and strategies . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.studygs.net/texred3.htm 5 . Directed Reading-Thinking Activity This strategy can be used in pre, during, and post reading. In pre-reading the reader can survey the text to look for clues about the content they are about to read. This helps the reader make predictions and establish a purpose for reading. They can prove their prediction of the text as they read. Lifestyle is a great site that provides articles, newsletters, newsletters , and just information to the general public about various topics such as shopping, parenting, and education. e mbree, H embree,
D. (2008, December 23). Drta: a specific reading strategy. Retrieved from http://www.associatedconten http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1303423/drt t.com/article/1303423/drta_a_specific a_a_specific_r _r eading_strategy.html
DURING READING STRATEGIES: 1. THINK ALOUD This strategy is exactly what it is ti tled. Thinking aloud helps students to come up with ideas to solving problems. By verbally stating the problem they somehow link the information they have to be able to approach situations and come up with problem solving strategies. It is useful when targeting skills of reading This site was too plain but is focused on the Think Aloud strategy. strategy. It served as an instructional guide for how a teacher would implement this reading strategy. Reading strategies scaffolding students' interactions with texts . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.greece.k12.ny http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6.us/instruction/ela/612/Reading/Reading%20S 12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/thinkaloud.h trategies/thinkaloud.htm tm Questioning the Author This reading strategy takes place during reading period when student begin to form questions for why the author writes what he wrote. Literacy Matters is a site focused on improving li teracy development development of students in middle school. This site is geared to assist those students by first reaching out to teachers, parents, and the adolescent reader. 2.
Questioning Questioning strategies during reading . reading . (2008). Retrieved from http://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/que http://www.literacymatters.org/adlit/questioning/during.htm stioning/during.htm 3 . Aniticipation Guide This reading strategy works on building comprehension skills by using the r eader¶s prior knowledge and experiences to understand concepts concepts read. The use of statements statements instead of questions is employed in this strategy. The statements may not come straight from the text but can be inferred this allows students to really read and think about the story. Just Read Now is a site based from Flori da Standards. Standards. It is produced by project Beacon Learning Center which started in 1997 to give resources to teachers with the use of technology. Just Read now: anticipitation/ reaction guide . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/anticipate.htm 4 . Selective Underlining Have you used a highlighter and noticed that most the text i s colored on? Well selective underlining is the strategy used to
prevent the over highlighting of text. This strategy gets the readers to only underline main words or phrases that may be the main idea of that reading. It i s a very helpful strategy in which it helps readers focus and pay attention more on just the essential parts needed. The Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test or FCAT is a site with valuable insight on various strategies and resources for teachers. Fcat express: selective underlining . underlining . (2009). Retrieved from http://fcit.usf.edu/fcat/references/strategies/mi7.htm 5 . Two-column Notes The two column notes strategy works on organizing the information. Students Students can identify the key concepts and the supporting details. This during reading strategy also works on make most of what the reader interacts with the text. This is a site is made through a grant from Florida Department of Education it is titled For-PD. For-Pd produces monthly newsletters with information about reading strategies. For Pds reading strategy of the month . (2004, March). Retrieved from http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratCol.htm http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratCol.htmll
POST READING STRATEGIES: 1. Question Answer Relationship QAR is the strategy that concentrates on the relationship between the questions and answers. This strategy has 4 basic types of relationships. First the ³Right There´ type in which the answers are found in the text and the question is formed with similar words from answer. Second the ³Think and Search´ type in which the answers are found in the text, however; the question is formatted with dissimilar words in the answer. Third is the ³Author and Me´ type which consists of an answer that is not in the text. Answer Answer is found from what is r ead and what reader already knows. Fourth is the ³On My Own´ type which the answer is found from within the reader¶s opinions and experiences. I like this site because it was very straight forward forward with explaining the relationships between questions and answers. The site also provides various links for further description and practices of this strategy. Qar question answer relationship . (2007, Novemeber Novemeber 14). Retrieved from http://www.kimskorner4teachert http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/readingliterature/read alk.com/readingliterature/readingstra ingstra tegies/QAR.htm Three-Minute Pause Three-minute pause is a strategy for students to just take a breather from their reading and collect their information obtained from reading. This will enable students to process new information. Steps Steps to performing Three-Minute Pause is to first summarize keys ideas; next add their thoughts; and lastly pose clarifying questions. Reading Quest is an organization that provides tips and instructions for various reading strategies. 2.
Strategies Strategies for reading comprehension three-minute pause . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.readingquest.org/strat/3m http://www.readingquest.org/strat/3mp.html p.html
3 . Frayer Model This strategy for eading uses vocabulary building graphic organizers. organizers. Students need to define the vocabulary words as well as use the information to make examples. The information they have is placed on visual chart which is in 4 parts. When using Frayer Model the entire class of small groups can be involved. This site is a resource for both teachers teachers and parents. parents. It offers
strategies and actual documents that you can download and pr int for use in classroom. Classroom strategies frayer model . (2008). Retrieved from http://www.adlit.org/articles/22369 4 . SQ3R This strategy helps readers to get a clear and organized picture of the information in what they read. The acronym SQ3R stands for survey, question, read, recall, and review. The stages should be done in Mind tools is a site that offers leadership skills, problem solving, decision making, project management, practical creativity, creativity , time management, stress management, information skills, communication and career skills. Sq3r increasing your retention of written informatio . (2010). Retrieved from http://www.mindtools.com/p http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS ages/article/newISS_02.htm _02.htm
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Semantic Feature Analysis
Semantic Feature Analysis makes connections of student¶s predictions and what is read. Comprehension and vocabulary skills are improved.Reading Rockets Rockets is a very r esourceful site. Is a site for parents parents and educators. Their mission is to assist the one in five children who have difficulty reading in order to be successful in school and in their life. Reading rockets teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. struggle . (2010). Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/sema .org/strategies/semantic_feature_analysis ntic_feature_analysis
O T HE HE R S POST Guided reading . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.oe.k12.mi.us/balanced_liter http://www.oe.k12.mi.us/balanced_literacy/guided_read acy/guided_reading.htm ing.htm 2. 8 strategie for post reading . (2008, December 9). Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/doc/87648 http://www.scribd.com/doc/8764840/8-S 40/8-Strategies-for-Post-Re trategies-for-Post-ReadingadingStudent-Sheet 3. Reading strategies . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.literacyaccessonline.com/Management/R_strategy.asp 4.
DURING 1. Minskoff, E, & , D. (n.d.). A cademic success strategies for adolescents adolescents with learning disabilities and adhd . adhd . Retrieved from http://www.brookespublishing.com http://www.brookespublishing.com/store/books/minskof /store/books/minskofff6 2 5 3/index.htm NAME OF STRATEGY: BRIEF DESCRIPTION: WHY SELECTIED:
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Strategies Strategies for teaching students with behavioral disorders . (2007, April 20). Retrieved from http://www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/behavior.html 3. Pressley, M. (2000). Comprehension instruction: what works . Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/a http://www.readingrockets.org/article/68 rticle/68
4. Rubenstein, G. (2010). The New drill: teaching educators how to improve reading levels . Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/new-drill 5. Self-monitoring strategies and vocabulary games . (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lesson http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplan.jsp?id=201 plan.jsp?id=201
