Strategies

Enhance Content Literacy by Using Literacy Strategies: 3 Lists of Possible Reading Strategies

When you plan strategies for your classroom it is important to keep your students in the loop. Let them know the names of the strategies. Help them to understand how the strategies support what good readers do. This will help them to become independent readers and thinkers as they think about becoming better at reading rather than just being satisfied with minimal reading skill. When you plan strategies for your classroom also consider the ones that you would repeat because repetition reinforces the strategies to become automatic. Good readers automatically root through their arsenal of strategies and make a decision about how to tackle the reading task presented to them and/or chosen by them. Here is three lists of possible strategies worth repeating for reinforcement.

LIST 1 (Note: list 1 not all strategies are linked. In progress.)

Vocabulary Strategies

Definition Map
Graphic Organizers

KIM

Miscellaneous Vocabulary Strategies  

Rivets
Concept of Definition Map

Vocabulary Bingo

Vocabulary Journal

Vocabulary Notebook

Vocabulary Overview
Word Map
Word Sorts (images)

Pre-reading Strategies

Anticipation Guide 

Content Area Reading Inventory

DRTA (Directed Reading/Thinking Activity)

KWL (worksheet)

Open House

Read Around the Text (worksheet)

During Reading Strategies

Comprehension Monitoring
Four Resources Model (worksheets) 
Student Monitoring of Comprehension
Student Checklist for Monitoring Comprehension

Data Chart

Describing Circle

Read, Rate, Reread Chart

Think Aloud

After Reading Strategies

Biography Poems

Bubble Map

Cause & Effect Graphic Organizer

Cluster Graphic Organizer

Collaborative Summarizing Sheet
Concept Ladder

Content Graphic Organizer 

Elements of Fiction

Event Map

Fact Chart

Flow Chart

GIST Statement

Magnet Summaries

Main Idea with Supporting Details Map

Multiple Cause Map

Multiple Effect Map

Narrowing Triangle
QAR (Question/Answer/Relationship)

RAFT

Reciprocal Reading/Teaching

Relationship Map

Semantic Map

Spider Map

Story Map

T Chart

Venn Diagram

Viewpoints

And more... all you need for teaching.
LIST 2

Anticipation Guides

ReadWriteThink: Anticipation Guides - From the International Reading Association, very comprehensive informaiton on anticipation guides.

Anticipation Guides - Provided by Education World.

AdolescentLiterature.org: Anticipation Guides - AdLit.org is an educational initiative of WETA the flagship public television and radio station in the nation's capital, and is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and by the Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation.

Concept Ladders

Concept Ladder - Janet Allen's version of a concept ladder. (She's a well-known literacy educator.)

Concept Ladders - Description and template provided by Edmond, OK public schools.

Developing Questions for Reading: Concept Ladder - More examples and a template

Cornell or Double-Column Note-taking

The Cornell Note-taking System - Provided by Cornell University, this page offers a clear visualization of the system.

Double Column Note-taking - Example from the University of Idaho.

Column Notes - Includes a variety of uses of columned notes. From University of Central Florida.

GIST: Generating Interactions between Schemata and Texts

GIST: Generating Interactions Between Schemata and Texts - Information and links to more about GIST. Includes the 5Ws and H.

GIST - Description and examples from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Jigsaw/Expert Groups -

Jigsaw - Site funded by Ann B. and Thomas L. Friedman Family Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Reading Rockets: Jigsaw - Site funded by grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs.

Instructional Strategies Online: Jigsaw - From Saskatoon Public Schools.

K-W-L

ReadingQuest.org - K-W-L -Provided by Professor Thomas H. Estes at the University of Virginia and includes extensive reading and comprehension strategies

KWL - From North Central Regional Educational Laboratory.

Instructions on Strategies Online: K-W-L - Provided by Saskatoon Public Schools in California. A very comprehensive guide to using KWL.
KWHLAQ
An update on KWL - visuals and explanation

QAR (Question-Answer Relationship)

QAR - Site provided by "Just Read Now" - a project of the Beacon Learning Center, an online resource center offering curriculum resources based on Florida's Sunshine State Standards.

Modified QAR - University of Central Florida hosts this site.

ReadingQuest.org - Question-Answer Relationship - Provided by Professor Thomas H. Estes at the University of Virginia and includes extensive reading and comprehension strategies.

R.A.F.T. (Role, Audience, Format, Topic)

RAFT from ReadingQuest.org - Provided by Professor Thomas H. Estes at the University of Virginia and includes extensive reading and comprehension strategies.

Instructional Strategies online: RAFT - Provided by Saskatoon Public Schools in California. Provides several good examples of using RAFT.

RAFT - University of Central Forida hosts this site.

REAP: Read, Encode, Annotate, Ponder

Precision Instruction: REAP - This article is a bit technical but also gives some good examples of REAP.

Higher Order Thinking and REAP - The section on REAP is about one-third of the way down the page. This method was developed by two professors at UMKC.

Skimming and Scanning

Skimming and Scanning - Provided by Anne Arundel Community College

Skimming and Scanning - Provided by University of Texas. Notice the differences and similarities between their use of skimming and scanning and the one above.

SQ3R and/or PQ4R

SQ3R: A Reading and Study Skill System - Provided by Virginia Tech University.

SQ3R - Extensive descriptions from Alamo College.

The SQ3R Reading Method - Adapted from a book titled Effective Study.

PQ4R - Summary provided by the Chico California State University.

Think-Pair-Share

Think-Pair-Share isn't always used as a reading strategy, but it can be used that way. Be sure the way you define and use it relates to reading.

Think-Pair-Share - Provided by Science Education Resource Center of Carleton College.

Instructional Strategies Online: Think-Pair-Share - Provided by Saskatoon Public Schools in California. Provides several good examples of using Think-Pair-Share.

Differentiated Instruction: Think-Pair-Share - Discusses the Think-Pair-Share strategy, created by Frank Lyman. Provided by Egg Harbor Township School District, NJ.

Vocabulary/Word Study

Vocabulary Ideas Compiled by Deb Smith - LOADS of vocabulary ideas from a reading teacher.

Word Study - Word study links to handouts from Janet Allen.

Word Study Activities from Words Their Way - Provided by the Literacy Connection.

Vocabulary Maps - From Reading Quest.org

Vocabulary Word Box - From University of Central Florida with a grant from the Florida Department of Education.

And more ... LIST 3

5 Minutes Reading Strategies (several subjects)
Read Alouds: Reading A-Z, McGraw-Hill

Vocabulary Prior Knowledge Assessments

Cloze or Maze Assessments: Sample Cloze Passages

Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)

Reading, Learning, and Motivation Inventories: Math, English, Social Studies, Science, Content Area Interest Inventory, Student Interest Inventories 
 Multiple Intelligences Reading Inventory

Literacy Portfolio

Screening in the RTI Framework