2. Laura Robb  Jeff Zwiers Cris Tovani Kyleen Beers  Jeffrey D. Wilhelm  Elizabeth H. Allen

3.  Purpose : To help students understand concepts when they have little to no background knowledge  Text : Narrative/Expository  When to use : Before, during, after reading

4.  Purpose : A prereading activity, CATAPULT = covers, author, title, audience, page, underlying message or purpose, visuals, and time  Text : Narrative  When: before reading

7.  Purpose : to determine the sequence of events in a story or historical account; to infer the causes of events  Text : Narrative or Expository  When : before, during and after reading

9.  Purpose : To guide students to become independent of the teacher; to read closely  Text : Narrative or expository  When : before, during, after

10.  Purpose : access tool to help students hole their thinking and analyze quality of thought  Text : narrative or expository  When : during reading

11. Write your quote Write your thought So what? How does this help you understand?

12.  Purpose : to deepen comprehension; to help students think about their thinking  Text : narrative or expository  When : during and after reading

13. Write a short summary of what you have read so far:In the inside circle draw something you visualized as you were reading. In the outside circle write connections you can make to your reading. If you could text the author right now, what would you say to him or her? Remember to be polite and respectful. Explain your thinking, but since you’re texting you can use your texting shorthand. As the illustrator, draw a picture that you would insert into the book some place. Be sure to have the picture reflect a section that you have already read. At the bottom, write the page number of where the picture should go in the book. Four Box Comprehensor

14.  Purpose : to deepen comprehension and help students think about their thinking  Text : narrative  When : during reading

15.  Purpose : uses students socialness to tap into and build background knowledge. Similar to a brainstorming session but with a more communicative twist  Text : narrative and expository  When : before reading

16.  Purpose : to deepen comprehension. This strategy includes open ended questioning, fun, and differentiates all at the same time!  Text : narrative or expository  When : after reading  Tip – teach QAR questions and what open ended questions are first

17.  Purpose : This is a visual way to train students’ brains to use evidence in order to make logical inferences. This habit then transfers over to reading as students use evidence from the text (and pictures) and combine it with background knowledge.  Text : narrative and expository  When : before reading

18.  Purpose : to identify how authors try to influence readers  Text : advertisements  When : before, during, after

19.  Purpose : inferencing: a visual scaffolding to help students organize thoughts connecting text and prior knowledge  Text: expository  When : before, during, after

20. QuestionIt SaysI SayAnd So It Says – I Say – And So

21.  Purpose : visual and kinesthetic simplification of the active thinking we use to comprehend; based on research by Marzano.  Text : narrative or expository  When : during reading

23.  Purpose : deepens comprehension through enactments (Multiple Intelligences)  Text : narrative and expository  When : before, during and/or after reading

24.  Purpose : This is a kinesthetic and cooperative activity that puts a little more fun into making predictions. It also can be used for other comprehension habits as a way of mixing up answers and creating random participation.  Text : narrative or expository  When : before reading

25.  Purpose : This activity is helpful for teaching students to use good evidence for making predictions. It breaks down the process and shows students how prediction should naturally happen in the brain while reading.  Text : narrative or expository  When : before reading

27.  Purpose : This activity encourages students to read text sections and generate a tentative heading or subheading for a section’s information. It also gives effective practice for text- marking and note-taking.  Text : Expository  When : during reading

28.  Purpose : requires students to choose and represent key details, see relationships and patterns across details and scenes, and summarize the whole coherence of ideas presented through a particular text segment.  Text : narrative or expository  When : during, after reading

29.  Purpose : It is a way to get students to build extensive knowledge of the text even before they read the first ‘normal’ words of a chapter. (Adapted from Marzano 2002)  Text : expository  When : before reading

32.  Purpose : to develop the habit of setting a purpose for the reading beyond “the teacher told me to read it”.  Text : narrative or expository  When: before reading

33. Elizabeth H. Allen (Beth) Contact: ehallen@wcpss.netehallen@wcpss.net Reading For Teachers Blackboard Site