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"Strategies for Effective use of Science Reading Materials"

"Focus on First Lines: Increasing Comprehension through Prediction Strategies" OVERVIEW At the beginning of a course or unit, students examine opening sentences from texts that they will read completely in later sessions. Students analyze the sentences and make predictions about the texts. As students read the complete texts throughout the course or unit, they return to their predictions to talk about the prediction strategy and to increase reading comprehension. The lesson plan includes sample opening lines for a variety of courses. The lesson can be easily adapted for any course or unit by collecting opening lines from texts that the class will read as a group.

Fostering High Levels of Reading and Learning in Secondary Students An Invited Commentary Michael F. Graves University of Minnesota

Comprehension Instruction: What Makes Sense Now, What Might Make Sense Soon Michael Pressley There are a variety of well-validated ways to increase comprehension skills in students through instruction; these are summarized in this article. In addition, new hypotheses about effective comprehension instruction are emerging, and these are also summarized. Although too little comprehension instruction is now occurring in schools, much is known that would enable such teaching to be done with confidence; more will be known as the emerging hypotheses are evaluated in the years ahead.

"You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read Richard L. Allington Many students in grades 5-12 struggle to learn from content-area textbooks that don't match their reading levels."

"Across all disciplines, teachers have identified a need to strengthen students' ability to read for information...to develop strategic readers."

"Reading Success with Expository Texts Struggling readers present secondary classroom teachers with unique challenges. Secondary teachers are experts in their subject areas but they have not been trained to "teach" reading. However, when given an expository text, struggling readers require intervention in order to understand what they are reading. This week, we offer a series of tips teachers can implement immediately to help struggling readers comprehend expository text."

"Reading in the Content Areas: Strategies for Success"

Reading Strategies online: great resource

"Making Thinking Visible by David Perkins "

January workshop wiki

"Prereading Strategies"

"Differentiating the Reading Experience for Students"