31 July 2012 Common Core Implications for Literacy Strategies across the Curriculum
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Strategies for Literacy Emphasis in ReadingTypical lessons will involve three stages of support: Preparation, Activation, & Reflection (PAR)
PREPARATION Examples of preparation activities would include anything you do with students to get them ready to dig in and make sense of what they read. Create a sense of purpose.Build Background Knowledge: This can be as simple as asking students to think about, talk, or write about what they already know or think they know about a subject for reading. ACTIVATION Here the emphasis is on keeping the students’ brains fully engaged in interacting with the text, rather than just passively skimming the surface. Do something while reading to harvest thinking and make sense. Taking notes about what to memorize or answering literal recall questions doesn’t count. Strategy: Text Codes (document file below) Using NY Times article "Don't Indulge. Be Happy." REFLECTION Post-reading work is often where student thinking can become crystallized, particularly in collaborative work with peers in thinking/reading groups/circles. Format can be spoken or written, but the very act of taking this reading work to the next level helps students actually clarify what they do think about what they’ve read. Typical whole-class discussion with a few students and the teacher just doesn’t get enough students thinking. Create individual accountability to take part. Strategy: Written Conversations: Students “hold a sustained silent discussion" by exchanging a series of notes that are passed around a small group. Identify a debatable or at least disputable topic of study, in this case reactions to a text. Lay out the topic for students, and then each student will write for about 3-5 minutes on his or her own piece of paper on the topic before passing the writing to the next person in the group. Continue to pass three or four times total. Each pass will take a bit longer since students will need time to read over what the other students have written so far. "Don't Indulge. Be Happy."
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