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Disciplinary literacy: emphasizes that experts us in a discipline use to participate of the specific discipline

Content literacy: emphasizes techniques that a novice would use to make sense of a disciplinary text

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Three Principles

engaging in resilient preconceptions

supporting metacognition

organizing knowledge around core concepts

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Planning begins by specifying essential questions that students will answer along with big ideas that will be considered

It is important for students to make connections and build on schemas

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When preparing to read a text, students should:

survey the text

activate prior knowledge

predict what the text is about

set goals

decide how to read the material

Anticipation Guides

build interest

activates background knowledge

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Textual features that foster learning

Think- aloud

Strategy guides

Pattern Guides

Glosses

Writing Intensive Reading Comprehension (WIRC) Thinksheets

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Develop:

Vocabulary

Comprehension

"Close" sort - teacher provides categories

"Open" sort - students create categories

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Graphic organizers

Infographics

Applying and extending

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Benefits:

Help students prepare

Help students select relevant information and organize it

Help students elaborate or integrate important information

Help students monitor reading

Foster students' motivation

Build background

Help students pronounce and learn unfamiliar words

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vocabulary
familiarity and clarity of language
structure
knowledge demands
reasoning/thinking demands/levels of meaning

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Readorium

Rocketlit

Newsela

TweenTribune

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Can be used on an anchor/target text, or for inquiry/essential question to be answered

Three steps:

1. select a topic

2. teach the topics key concepts and words

3. read to or have students read texts of increasing complexity on the topic

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Main purpose is to have students examine and express what they are learning.

Combines:

personal reaction

exploration of content

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These activities activate prior knowledge and foster active learning and reflection

admit slips

exit slips

quick write

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Steps to make content understandable:

presentation should be as understandable as possible

use visuals to support visual presentation

provide directions orally and visually

hands-on activities

use videos, visuals and graphic organizers to anchor instruction

modify use of text

scaffold instruction

provide wait time

plan opportunities for students to talk through ideas

make use of students native language

Systematic Vocabulary Instruction

academic language

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Three stages of memory:

1. encoding

2. restoring

3. retrieving

Elaborating aides memory!

Principles for Improving Memory:

clearing, meaningful encoding of material to be learned

have a purposeful intention to learn

organize and elaborate information

overlearning aids retention

give your mind a rest

Conceptual understanding is the best way to remember new material.

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rehearsal

mnemonic method

mnemonic rhyme

acronyms

acrostics