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20 Literacy Strategies to Meet the Common Core
Increasing Rigor in Middle & High School Classrooms
With the advent of the Common Core State Standards and high expectations with regard to content literacy, some secondary teachers are scrambling for what to do and how to do it. This book provides an accessible plan for implementing content literacy and offers 20 research-based literacy strategies designed to help students meet those standards and become expert readers.
Benefits
- Learn 20 literacy strategies to help students become expert readers.
- Access activities, lesson plans, organizers, and other research-based tools that promote secondary content literacy.
- Strengthen your understanding of CCSS for English language arts and literacy in history/social studies, science, and technical subjects for grades 6–12.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Strategy 1: Read-Decide-Explain
Strategy 2: Show You Know
Strategy 3: Prove It
Strategy 4: Read Like a Detective
Strategy 5: Question Like an Investigative Reporter
Strategy 6: Think Like a Private Investigator
Strategy 7: Snapshot Summary
Strategy 8: Identify-Analyze-Summarize
Strategy 9: What-How-Why (Individuals)
Strategy 10: What-How-Why (Events)
Strategy 11: What-How-Why (Ideas)
Strategy 12: Quick-REACH Vocabulary Toolkit
Strategy 13: Weigh the Words
Strategy 14: Identify-Analyze-Relate (Problem-Solution)
Strategy 15: Identify-Analyze-Relate (Cause-Effect)
Strategy 16: Purpose-Content-Style
Strategy 17: Navigate-Integrate-Evaluate
Strategy 18: Delineate-Evaluate-Explain
Strategy 19: Analyze-Compare-Write
Strategy 20: Literacy Rehearsal
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- Figure I.6: Pre-Implementation Planning Form
- Figure I.7: Post-Implementation Evaluation Form Strategy 1
- Figure 1.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Read-Decide-Explain
- Figure 1.4: Reproducible Organizer for Read-Decide-Explain
- Figure 1.5: Lesson Plan for Read-Decide-Explain Strategy 2
- Figure 2.5: Student-Friendly Definitions for Show You Know
- Figure 2.6: Reproducible Organizer for Show You Know
- Figure 2.7: Lesson Plan for Show You Know Strategy 3
- Figure 3.3: Student-Friendly Definitions
- Figure 3.4: Reproducible Organizer for Prove It
- Figure 3.5: Lesson Plan for Prove It Strategy 4
- Figure 4.3: Inference Stems for Read Like a Detective
- Figure 4.4: Student-Friendly Definitions
- Figure 4.5: Reproducible Organizer for Read Like a Detective
- Figure 4.6: Lesson Plan for Read Like a Detective Strategy 5
- Figure 5.3: Question Stems for Question Like an Investigative Reporter
- Figure 5.4: Student-Friendly Definitions for Question Like an Investigative Reporter
- Figure 5.5: Reproducible Organizer for Question Like an Investigative Reporter
- Figure 5.6: Lesson Plan for Question Like an Investigative Reporter Strategy 6
- Figure 6.4: Elaborative Inference Stems for Think Like a PI
- Figure 6.5: Student-Friendly Definitions for Think Like a PI
- Figure 6.6: Reproducible Organizer for Think Like a PI
- Figure 6.7: Lesson Plan for Think Like a PI Strategy 7
- Figure 7.3: Reproducible Student-Friendly Definitions
- Figure 7.4: Reproducible Organizer for Snapshot Summary
- Figure 7.5: Lesson Plan for Snapshot Summary
- Figure 7.6: Checklist for Evaluating Summary Sentences Strategy 8
- Figure 8.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Identify-Analyze-Summarize
- Figure 8.4: Reproducible Organizer for Identify-Analyze-Summarize
- Figure 8.5: Lesson Plan for Identify-Analyze-Summarize Strategy 9
- Figure 9.3: How to Embed Textual Evidence
- Figure 9.5: Reproducible Organizer for What-How-Why (Individuals)
- Figure 9.6: Lesson Plan for What-How-Why (Individuals) Strategy 10
- Figure 10.3: Student-Friendly Definitions
- Figure 10.4: Reproducible Organizer for What-How-Why (Events)
- Figure 10.5: Lesson Plan for What-How-Why (Events) Strategy 11
- Figure 11.3: Student-Friendly Definitions
- Figure 11.4: Reproducible Organizer for What-How-Why (Ideas)
- Figure 11.5: Lesson Plan for What-How-Why (Ideas) Strategy 12
- Figure 12.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for the Quick-REACH Vocabulary Toolkit
- Figure 12.4: The Quick-REACH Questions
- Figure 12.5: The Quick-REACH Toolkit
- Figure 12.6: A Big Word Strategy
- Figure 12.7A: Twenty Most Common Prefixes
- Figure 12.7B: Twenty Most Common Suffixes
- Figure 12.8: Steps for Using Clues in the Context to Infer the Meaning of an Unfamiliar Word
- Figure 12.9: Reproducible Organizer for the Quick-REACH Vocabulary Toolkit
- Figure 12.10: Lesson Plan for Quick-REACH Vocabulary Toolkit Strategy 13
- Figure 13.4: Student-Friendly Definitions for Weigh the Words
- Figure 13.5: Reproducible Organizer for Weigh the Words
- Figure 13.6: Lesson Plan for Weigh the Words Strategy 14
- Figure 14.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Identify-Analyze-Relate (Problem-Solution)
- Figure 14.4: Reproducible Organizer for Identify-Analyze-Relate (Problem-Solution)
- Figure 14.5: A Mini-Lesson for Writing Headlines
- Figure 14.6: Types of Text Structures and How to Identify Them
- Figure 14.7: Lesson Plan for Identify-Analyze-Relate (Problem-Solution) Strategy 15
- Figure 15.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Identify-Analyze-Relate (Cause-Effect)
- Figure 15.4: Reproducible Organizer for Identify-Analyze-Relate (Cause-Effect)
- Figure 15.5: Identify-Analyze-Relate (Cause-Effect) Lesson Plan Strategy 16
- Figure 16.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Purpose-Content-Style
- Figure 16.4: Reproducible Organizer for Purpose-Content-Style
- Figure 16.5: Questions to Ask When Assessing How Purpose Shapes Content and Style
- Figure 16.6: Lesson Plan for Purpose-Content-Style Strategy 17
- Figure 17.3: How to Interpret a Political-Editorial Cartoon
- Figure 17.8: Student-Friendly Definitions for Navigate-Integrate-Evaluate
- Figure 17.9: Reproducible Organizer for Navigate-Integrate-Evaluate
- Figure 17.10: Lesson Plan for Navigate-Integrate-Evaluate Strategy 18
- Figure 18.3: Student-Friendly Definitions for Delineate-Evaluate-Explain
- Figure 18.4: Reproducible Organizer for Delineate-Evaluate-Explain
- Figure 18.5: Constructed Response Stems to Stimulate Critical Thinking While Reading Text
- Figure 18.6: Lesson Plan for Delineate-Evaluate-Explain Strategy 19
- Figure 19.4: Student-Friendly Definitions for Analyze-Compare-Write
- Figure 19.5: Reproducible Organizer for Analyze-Compare-Write
- Figure 19.6: Aspects of the Author’s Approach
- Figure 19.7: Compare-Contrast Checklist
- Figure 19.8: Model Response
- Figure 19.9: Transition Stems
- Figure 19.10: Lesson Plan for Analyze-Compare-Write
