Supporting Your Children’s and Teens’ Home Learning: Daily Book Study for Teens
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Posted on: March 20, 2020
Read a young adult novel with us and complete daily assignments to continue learning from home!
Reading Standards for Literature
Reads and understands age/grade appropriate informational text, using a variety of skills to connect ideas, use evidence, and analyze text.
Posted on: March 20, 2020
Research Brief: Does It Matter When Students Read the Items on a Comprehension Assessment?
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Posted on: December 17, 2019
Researchers examined the common approach of having students read the questions before the text on a comprehension test to see how it impacted student performance compared to reading the questions after the text.
QAR Questions and Answers by Type
A guide to use when teaching students the Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) strategy to help teachers plan which questions to ask for the four question types and an answer that might be given.
Guide Students to Answers According to Question Type: The Question-Answer Relationship
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Posted on: September 5, 2017
Teaching students to identify the type of question asked about a text using the Question-Answer Relationship strategy helps them formulate answers more easily.
The Power of Interactive Read Alouds
By Gwen Marra, Ed.D.
Through read alouds that utilize dialogic reading, children can develop their use of new vocabulary in a meaningful way, make connections between new and previously-learned information, and learn literary elements like character, point of view, and plot.
The Power of Interactive Read Alouds
Related: Blank version of the Dialogic Reading Planning Form included in the report
Strong Girls Read Strong Books
By Renita Schmidt, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Education
Amanda Haertling Thein, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor, University of Iowa College of Education
The authors explain how they go about selecting texts for their afterschool reading club that helps girls grow into strong women through reading books featuring strong female protagonists. They also highlight key practices they have found useful in reading and responding to those texts.
PEER
PEER questions are meant to encourage deeper responses about a text during dialogic reading, leading to a conversation beyond one-word answers.
CROWD
CROWD is used to remember the types of basic questions to ask to facilitate dialogic reading: completion, recall, open-ended, “wh” questions, and distancing.
What Am I Thinking Organizer
Users of this tool are encouraged to write down their thoughts about a text in four different ways (opinion, reaction, connection, and visualization) and provide reasons from the text for their thoughts.
Forming Opinions
This tool helps users organize their thoughts and learn to form opinions about their reading.