Using Possible Selves to Facilitate Student Literacy Achievement
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Posted on: February 20, 2018
Through helping students define their possible selves, show them how becoming an expert reader can help them achieve their life goals.
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Posted on: February 20, 2018
Student Generation of Higher-Order Questions
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Posted on: January 9, 2018
Generating higher-order questions about text benefits students reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Model this skill for students and provide practice and feedback.
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Anchor Chart
This anchor chart (Vanderbilt University Teaching Center, 2016) illustrates and describes the levels of the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy (Anderson & Kratwohl, 2010). Both students and teachers can use this resource.
Important Elements of Literary Texts Anchor Chart
Students may use this anchor chart to formulate questions about important elements of literary texts.
Student Classification of Questions: A First Step in Question Generation
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Posted on: December 12, 2017
Teach students to classify questions about a text as higher-order or lower-order questions before generating their own questions.
Higher-order Questions Checklist
Students can use this checklist to classify and generate higher-order questions about a text. These types of questions require analyzing or evaluating the text or creating something new.
Explicit Vocabulary Instruction Template
Guide your thinking, organize your decisions, and create active practice activities related to explicit vocabulary instruction. This resource is divided into the five major aspects of explicit vocabulary instruction and includes guiding questions to ground your planning in evidence-based practices.
Identifying and Avoiding False Information: A Matter of Comprehension in the Classroom
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Posted on: August 8, 2017
A lack of comprehension and media literacy skills can lead a student to mistakenly use false information found on the web at school. Learn more about the problem and counteracting it with instruction and modeling.
Vocabulary Instruction to Support the Career Readiness of Juvenile Offenders
Deborah K. Reed, Ph.D.
Both literacy and career technical education are believed to be linked to better outcomes for juvenile offenders transitioning back to their communities after release.
Asking Questions of Readers in the Upper Grades (Fifth Grade and Up)
This organizer helps readers develop comprehension skills by learning how to ask questions and look for the answers in a text.
"Asking Questions of Readers in the Upper Grades (Fifth Grade and Up)" graphic organizer