Thinking+Strategies

= Getting Students to Think: Essential Lessons for Building Literacy Skills =

 Our Time Reading in  Grades 1-4 ||= How We Spend Our  Time Reading as Adults ||
 * = How We Currently Spend
 * = Literature 80% ||= Literature 8% ||
 * = Math 16% ||= Math 16% ||
 * = Social Studies 2% ||= Social Studies 50% ||
 * = Science 2% ||= Science 30% ||

What the Common Core is asking for based on the Distribution of Literary and Informational Passages by Grade in the 2009 NAEP Reading Framework

 * = == Grade == ||= == Literary Text == ||= == Informational Text == ||
 * = ==4== ||= ==50%== ||= ==50%== ||
 * = ==8== ||= ==45%== ||= ==55%== ||
 * = ==12== ||= ==30%== ||= ==70%== ||
 * Source: National Assessment Governing Board. (2008). Reading framework for the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. **

Critical Areas of Comprehension

Monitoring Comprehension  Determining Importance Using Graphic and Semantic Organizers Generating and Answering Questions  Recognizing Text Structure  Summarizing  Using Prior Knowledge/Schema/Connections/Text-to-Self, -Text, -World  Using Mental Images

Literacy Skill Links  [|Strategy Bookmarks] <span style="color: #431273; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"> [|Plot Bookmark/Foldable] <span style="color: #431273; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"> [|Literary Elements "Fortune Teller"] <span style="color: #431273; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"> [|Literature Learning Ladders] - book-technology connections <span style="color: #80a7d9; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: center;"> Content Area Literacy <span style="color: #431273; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; text-align: left;"> [|Textmasters] - literature circles for content area textbooks

<span style="color: #06933d; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: left;">** Bibliography ** <span style="color: #06933d; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: left;"> Sigmon, C. (2009, January 28). //Getting Students to Think:// //Essential Lessons for Building Literacy Skills.// Presented at an SDE conference in Erie, Pennsylvania.

<span style="color: #06933d; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: left;"> Keene, E. and Zimmermann, S. (1997) //Mosaic of Thought.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

<span style="color: #06933d; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 11.2pt; text-align: left;"> Harvey, S. and Goudvis, A. (2000) //Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding//. Portland, ME; Stenhouse.