Literacy Strategies That Work! Dawn Lakowski Linda Mehlbrech September, 2010

Agenda Vocabulary Development Before Reading Strategies During Reading Strategies After Reading Strategies Writing in a history classroom Door Prizes

Expectations Classroom ready literacy strategies for teaching history content Ideas for differentiating the curriculum for struggling readers, second language learners, and advanced students

Marzano

4 th Grade Export Canal Levee Agriculture Tenant Farmers

3 rd Grade Patriotic Symbol Landmark Monument Memorial

Game Boards

How to Make a Fortune Teller Fold your square paper in half. Told it in half again. Unfold your paper Fold each corner to the center. Turn over Fold each corner. again, to the center. Fold in half. Place your fingers into the flaps and work it out.

Make a crease, dividing the top into eight sections or triangles. Write the numbers 1-8 on top. Write the number 1-8 on the inside triangles. Write eight vocabulary words and eight definitions under the second set of numbers. Find a friend who is done with their fortune teller and quiz each other.

What Makes Word Walls Work? Word Walls should be built over time with shared ownership between teacher and students. Words are harvested from rich language contexts. Word Walls should be kept as simple and uncluttered as possible. Words on the Wall should be visible to everyone.

What to build and when to add is based on student needs. Use of walls as helpful references must be modeled. The goal of creating and using Word Walls is ultimately automaticity of basic processes.

Before Reading Strategies

Ideas for Using Picture Books in History Classes Introducing a new unit or topic Adding details to textbook account Piquing interest in a topic for research Looking at a topic in more detail Geography concepts Important cities or sites Content accessibility for struggling readers Identifying multiple perspectives

Focus the Reading Late of the jungle, wild and dim Sliced from the elephant’s ivory limb, Painted, polished, here these spheres Rehearse their civilized careers. Trapped in geometric toil, Exhibit impact and recoil Politely, in a farce of force, And let’s have not absurd remorse, But praise the complicated plan That organizes beast and man In patterns so superbly styled Late of the jungle, dim and wild.

During Reading

During Reading Strategies