1. Teaching reading
In your curriculum

2. Teaching Reading in Your Curriculum
Teaching students how to remember and reuse the information you ask them to read.

3. Teaching students to think

4. Identify what students are struggling with
List questions on the board or on butcher paper hanging on the walls around the room.
Model for students how you look for the answer in the text.
Have students look up answers for the questions they find interesting and write the answers they found underneath the questions.

5. Identify what students are struggling with
Point out the process.
How did you find the answer?
Looked for bolded words
Scanned the text for keywords
Reread paragraphs on the topic in question

6. Anticipation Guide
Find out what they know Get them to use prior knowledge
Word Choices: List Bow Stern
Your first thought
Definition
Actual Answer
Rear of the ship
Front of the ship
Tilting or leaning

7. Grade 8 Math Summative Task
Anticipation Guide
Grade 8 Math Summative Task
Before
Statement
After
Agree
Disagree
The total length of the outside curves (i.e. the bold parts) is 3 times the circumference of one of the circles.
2. You will have more pizza to eat if you buy the original on the left instead either of the other two choices.
3. If you double the length of each side of a square, then
the area is also doubled.

8. Anticipation Guide Article about computers in the workplace
 Directions: Read each statement. If you believe that a statement is true, place a check in the Agree column. If you believe the statement is false, place a check in the Disagree column. Be ready to explain your choices.
Agree
Disagree
_____
1.   The average worker in the United States spends more than 2 hours a day using computers in the workplace.
2.   It is OK for companies to monitor its employees’ use of the Internet.
3.   Most companies do not expect their new employees to be computer literate until after the company trains them.

9. Double Entry Diary Connection to the text So What? 1. 1. 2. 2. 3. 3.4. 4.
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, Content Comprehension, Cris Tovani, Copyright 2004

10. Chapter on the Life Cycle
Facts in the text
Why is this important? 1.
A producer gets energy from the sun and uses it to produce food and oxygen. 1.
Plants are the only producers because they make their own food and oxygen. Animals need other things such as plants to survive therefore they can’t be producers.
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, Content Comprehension, Cris Tovani, Copyright 2004

11. Smaller chunks of information
Use alternative text
Narrative format
More descriptive
Smaller chunks of information
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, Content Comprehension, Cris Tovani, Copyright 2004

12. List of Math Related Alternative Texts

13. Where to Find a List of Science Related Alternative Texts
scienceinliterature/chapterbooks.html

14. Interger Octagon Word Wall Cards - Math Grade 7 Front of Card
Back of Card
Frayer Model
Interger
Definition An interger is a positive or negative counting number or zero
Characteristics has no decimal part has no fractional part
Examples
Non-examples /3
Verbal and Visual Word Association
Octagon
Vocabulary Term Octagon
Visual Representation
Student Definition A polygon with 8 sides
Personal Connection
A stop sign is an octagon
Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math by Laura Robb

15. Comprehension Constructor
While reading, notice the headings, new vocabulary words, bold print, and graphics.
Title: Biological Compounds
New science words:
Reactant
Subscript
As you read, record questions that you have: 1. 2. 3.
Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, Content Comprehension, Cris Tovani, Copyright 2004

16. Using Context Clues to Figure Out New Words
Since oil seeps deep into gravel and rock, workers brought in bulldozers to churn up hidden oil globs, then applied chemicals to break apart oil molecules. But ultimately the natural flushing action of waves – in which sunlight and oxygen naturally decomposes oil particles – proved more efficient than all the mop, sponges, power hoses, and well-meaning human effort (p12, Science World, March 20, 2000, vol. 56, #12)
∘ Read the preceding sentence. ∘ Talk your reasoning through in front of the class.
“I don’t see a clue in this sentence. The sentence before says chemicals were used to break apart oil molecules. That’s what the waves, sun, and oxygen did. So decompose must mean break apart.”
Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math by Laura Robb

17. Using Context Clues to Figure Out New Words
Use prefix/suffix knowledge to figure out the meaning of a word.
Equi = equal
Equation – asserting the equality of two quantities
Equilateral – having all sides equal
Equator - a circle separating a surface into two congruent parts
Equilibrium - a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
Teaching Reading in Social Studies, Science, and Math by Laura Robb