40 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts

✍ Scribed by Barbara Moss, Virginia Loh-Hagan

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 3
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. (Prior edition title: 35 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts.)

New to This Edition
*Now features more strategies, including 16 that are completely new.
*Explicit links throughout to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other current standards.
*Two additional strands of activities: Reading Closely and Discussion.
*Numerous new and revised reproducible tools--all downloadable.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title Page
Also from Barbara Moss
Title Page
Copyright
About the Authors
Introduction
Contents
Part I. Getting Started Strategies
Strategy 1. Planning a Lesson with Informational Texts
Strategy 2. Understanding and Evaluating Informational Texts
Strategy 3. Assessing Text Complexity
Strategy 4. Shared Reading and Text Feature Search
Part II. Building Background Strategies
Strategy 5. Anticipation Guide
Strategy 6. KWHL
Strategy 7. KLEW
Strategy 8. Table of Contents Prediction
Strategy 9. IEPC
Part III. Vocabulary Strategies
Strategy 10. Word Map
Strategy 11. SLAP
Strategy 12. Root Wheels
Strategy 13. List–Group–Label
Strategy 14. Word Sort
Strategy 15. Semantic Feature Analysis
Part IV. Reading Closely Strategies
Strategy 16 Close Reading
Strategy 17. Close Thinking
Strategy 18. Text Annotation
Strategy 19. Text-Dependent Questions
Strategy 20. Thinking Aloud
Strategy 21. Sticky Notes Bookmark
Part V. Comprehension Strategies
Strategy 22. Study Guide
Strategy 23. Four-Box Comment Card
Strategy 24. I-Chart
Strategy 25. CAATS
Strategy 26. Text Structures
Strategy 27. Interactive Notebooks
Part VI. Discussion Strategies
Strategy 28. Discussion Web
Strategy 29. 4–3–2–1 Discussion Guide
Strategy 30. Intra-Act
Strategy 31. Talking Points
Strategy 32. Three-Step Interview
Strategy 33. 3-Minute Pause
Part VII. Writing Strategies
Strategy 34. Readers Theatre
Strategy 35. Paragraph Writing Frames
Strategy 36. I Used to Think . . . but Now I Know . . .
Strategy 37. Summary Writing
Strategy 38. CLIQUES
Strategy 39. EPIC
Strategy 40. Two-Column Journal
Appendix. Recommended Materials
Index