Thinking and Reading Strategies For the Environmental Educator Mark Weakland.

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Strategies and Activities Anticipation guide I See, I Think, I Wonder Questioning and Answering Vocabulary Word Sorts and Summary Written Summary 3

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Anticipation Guides Activate prior knowledge Set a purpose for learning Stimulate a student’s curiosity in a topic Develop a student’s ability to respond to a text or a conversation Allow the teacher to gather formative assessment data on prior knowledge. 5

Anticipation guides First: read statements and mark guide – Individual – With a partner – In small groups Next: learn, read, experience Last: read statements and revise guide – During learning, reading, experiencing – After… – Individual, with a partner, in small grp, w/large group 6

Anticipation Guides Teacher made 7

Anticipation Guides Student made 8

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I See, I Think, I Wonder 11

IS – IT – IW Activates prior knowledge Stimulates a student’s curiosity in a topic Develops observation skills Develops communication skills Allows the teacher to gather formative assessment data on prior knowledge. Leads to questioning! 12

I See, I Think, I Wonder 13

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Ask and Answer Questions 15

Asking and Answering Questions Good readers do this. Life long learners do this. The heart of science Critically important for comprehension Question and Answer Relationship / Close Reading Thin and Thick Questions – a great place to start! 16

Vocabulary 17

Building Vocabulary Readers must know the meanings for most of the words in a text so they can understand what they read When they know the meanings of most words they hear, listeners can better understand a conversation 18

Build Vocabulary By… Talking Read, read, read! 19

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Better: connected words evaporate condense precipitate 21

The Water Cycle Song 22 Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation all the time! This is called the water cycle And it happens all the time.

Vocabulary Riddle 23 I live in far off Australia Along river banks muddy and green Although you may have seen the most amazing sights I’m the strangest sight you’ve ever seen My warm blood makes me a mammal So does my brown silky fur But I swim like a fish and lay eggs like a bird Confusing you say? I concur!

A Platypus! 24 I am a platypus, I am a platypus With a bill instead of a nose Like a strange looking otter I swim in the water With webbing between each of my toes I am a platypus, I am a platypus I have four stout little legs I am a mammal, just like a camel, But my children all hatch from an egg

pinnate palmate heartwood sapwood cambium 25  leaves  bark  roots  lobed  compound

Comprehension The ultimate goal –Understand both fiction and informational [texts] –Understand and remember [what is read] –Relate knowledge and experiences[ to the text] –Communicate with others [about what is read] 26

Increase comprehension with a… Verbal summary Written summary 27

Questions? Answers! A final song 28

Mark Weakland Literacy Practical literacy solutions for teachers and administrators Children’s books that inspire kids to be readers 29