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I found that the Selectively Underlining and Power Thinking from the ReadingQuest site would be great for my science classes or even possibly adapting it for math. Students are always struggling with what information should be considered the most important and these would definitely help.

The strategies from Reading Rockets would be fantastic for students to learn, because not only would it help with their reading comprehension but their auditory comprehension as well. I could see how they could use the comprehension monitoring during a math lesson and being able to identify and explain to me where they got lost instead of just saying "I don't get it".

I love all the resources in adlit.org. I had even used the Frayer Model when I taught reading, but hadn't thought about using it in math class. I really like how it gives both examples and non-examples and think that would be really beneficial. For science I could see how using Structured Note-taking and the Frame Routine could help students both focus on the most important parts of the text, but also learn how to become better note-takers

Rachael Burt

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All three websites had tons of materials and startegies to help strengthen our classes.
The reading quest.org had a super strategy for using reciprocal teaching, and I know this could benefit my history lessons with the students to help them better comprehend. What I liked about readingrockets.org, besides the various strategies, were the blogs created by teachers to help teachers. Thses are exactly what we need to communicate whether or not these strategies are working.As for the adlit.org, great ideas to use with guided reading groups for before, during and after reading strategies to strengthen the reading skills. I have been looking for such sites and these are excellent to help me develop a stronger reading program for sure! They are all now bookmarked! Paul

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Useful Websites for Secondary Reading Strategies

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Useful Websites for Secondary Reading Strategies

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Ad Lit. Org
- Is about student motivation and engagement in literacy education
- In depth about data and district & statewide reforms
- The common core standards tab introduces and in-depthly explains the standards with video modules and resources. This section also provides lessons, how they align to CC standards, teaching materials, strategies and how to reflect on lessons.
- My favorite section from this website was the classroom strategies. These can be used before, during and after reading with the focus being on vocabulary, comprehension and writing. I especially like it how under each strategy, the website provides the background, benefits, how to create & use the strategy and further reading that can be done about the strategy.

Reading Rockets. Org
- I like how they broke it down into the 7 categories of reading (monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic & semantic organizers, answering questions, generating questions, recognizing story structure and summarizing). It also talked about the gradual release model and how to use it: direct explanation > modeling > guided practice> application.
- What I liked most about this website was the "For Parents, Teachers & Others" tab. The resources for parents, teachers or others can really benefit the whole child.

Reading Quest. Org
- Provides comprehension and content reading strategies with explicit instructions including: what the strategy is, how it works, what topics can be used and how to take the activity one step further. This website also provides handouts that I can see being very useful in not only a social studies class but also other core or non-core content areas.

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I enjoyed looking at all three of these websites. That have numerous great strategies for reading, to help with comprehension.
AdLit was nice for lots of great graphic organizers such as the anticipation guides, SQ3R, Story Maps, Double Entry Journal, Concept Maps, and the Frayer Model. I would use all of those for a lesson, before, during, or after reading. They give great instructions for all of these strategies as well, which is nice. Sometimes you're given a graphic organizer and no explanation for how to use it, so this website is nice for having that.
Reading Quest is another great website for more graphic organizers as well. I would use the Carousel brainstorming; this would be good for after reading to check for understanding. I've used KWL charts before, but I still plan on using them. It's good for discussing what students know and want to know before they read and then for checking what they learned afterwards. I've used 3-2-1 before, it's good for checking what they learned afterwards by asking specific questions about the text.
Lastly, the Reading Rockets website had some good information about how answering questions can be used. It talked about the four different types of questions. Sometimes I only think of the "right there" questions and forget about the other types such as "think and search", "author and you", and "on your own". I would use this for after or during reading.
Overall, these three are great website I plan on using as I teach reading.
-Kayli Hareldson

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I found all three websites to be full of great strategies for reading note taking/comprehension skills.

In the Reading Quest I could find graphic organizers for my students to use, unique partnering activities, and note taking strategies to help my students.  It is a great resource for finding tools to use with my students.

The Reading Rockets websites was also great in that it described the different components needed to be good at comprehension.  It also gave strategies and ideas to help with these components.  I thought of two ways to use this site.  The first would be using it myself to help me pinpoint what area my student(s) might be struggling with and what I can do to assist them.  The second is to actually have my students look at the website and decide what they think their weaknesses are and how they can strengthen their weaknesses.  Then by having the students answer the question "What strategies could you use?"  Have them try them for a week and see if they see improved results.

Adolescent Literacy
This site also has a variety of strategies for teaching comprehension  such as graphic organizers and other strategies that we have learned or talked about.  This websites however, also lists some we did not talk about and I love that it gives a definition of the strategies and how we can use them.  I like how it also gives us other sites to read for more information.

Overall I thought all three sites were fantastic resources for both teachers and students to use.  I have bookmarked them as resource tools so that I might further my education through these sites.
Angela Forland

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Viewing all of the research based strategies on all three sites was an awesome way to make connections to what we have already learned throughout this course.  As I scrolled through all of them, I internally thought about the strategies we have discussed or even tried and added to our personal lists (e.g. Anticipation Guide, SQ3R, Reciprocal Teaching).  Then, I made note of the strategies that I have not heard of before, such as  ABC Brainstorm, Carousel Brainstorming, Story Maps for lab procedures in science, Listen-Read-Discuss, Possible Sentences, Seed Discussion, and so many more!  What I found to be the most interesting was the amount of strategies that seemed to be dedicated to understanding the author’s message and choices, which is what we learned about when we read Shanahan’s Close Reading PowerPoint a few weeks ago.   Initially, I was quite confused by the Close Reading approach, but after looking at these strategies, I find it to be attainable with the information presented throughout these three sites.

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Viewing all of the research based strategies on all three sites was an awesome way to make connections to what we have already learned throughout this course.  As I scrolled through all of them, I internally thought about the strategies we have discussed or even tried and added to our personal lists (e.g. Anticipation Guide, SQ3R, Reciprocal Teaching).  Then, I made note of the strategies that I have not heard of before, such as  ABC Brainstorm, Carousel Brainstorming, Story Maps for lab procedures in science, Listen-Read-Discuss, Possible Sentences, Seed Discussion, and so many more!  What I found to be the most interesting was the amount of strategies that seemed to be dedicated to understanding the author’s message and choices, which is what we learned about when we read Shanahan’s Close Reading PowerPoint a few weeks ago.   Initially, I was quite confused by the Close Reading approach, but after looking at these strategies, I find it to be attainable with the information presented throughout these three sites.

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Tara

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Reading Quest and AdLit are two websites that give lots of strategies to engage the students in learning.
Reading Quest: I enjoyed reading through this website. The instructions for the strategies were clear and detailed. Also many strategies provided the graphic organizer or worksheet. As a teacher I could easily and quickly implement any one of these strategies into my lesson. They all engage the learning. A few of my favorites were Question the Author, History Frames and Vocabulary Word Map.
AdLit:
This site also had great strategies and graphic organizer to use. I enjoyed reading the article, Adolescent Literacy 101. I spent some time looking at the section on college readiness.
Reading Rockets:
I liked the videos and blogs on this site. I spend quite a bit of time reading items under the Struggling Readers tab. No matter what age a students is they may need to go back to the basics. I also read about Self-Esteem of a Struggling Reader. This would be a good site to recommend to parents.
Christy

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Reading Quest:
LOTS of graphic organizers to use in the classroom and could be used really at any level which is awesome. I have used a few of these graphic organizers in Title 1 but would love to use them more next year. I LOVED the word map graphic organizer and that would be a great tool to use in any subject to help students with vocab.
Seven Strategies (Reading Rockets):
This website contained a lot of metacognitive strategies to use with students. I really enjoyed the story map graphic organizer and I use something very similar with some of my students. The resources along the top were very helpful. I think the Helping Struggling Readers tab would be so helpful for any teacher. I also thought the parent section would be a great resource to share with parents. Sometimes a website is easier than hearing me say the same thing over and over to them.
AdLit:
I really enjoyed how this website was laid out. It was very easy to navigate. I could go onto this website and easily see what each strategy/graphic organizer could be used for.
-Amanda

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ReadingQuest was my favorite site because it had useful resources I could use with students. I loved all of the Story Maps and History Frames I could print or project on the board to use for comprehension. The Somebody Wanted But So map was my favorite and could be used at any grade level. There was even a Vocabulary map that would be great for teaching new vocab words. The Selective Underlining section was great in teaching students different ways to highlight/underline important information in a text. On the Seven Strategies site I was drawn to the Target the Problem section. This had a lot of information about how to help struggling readers. There was useful information about how to do Think Alouds and books to use.
The Classroom Strategies page was a little hard to connect with and read. The one thing I liked was the videos for Teachers. They would be helpful for new teachers like me if I had to teach upper level subjects. The meet the author videos would be nice to help students connect with books. There were useful book lists to help a new teacher find great books to use with upper level grades.

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ReadingQuest
This website is full of amazing reading strategies coupled with graphic organizers. One of my favorite graphic organizers was the concept map for vocabulary. It contained a place for the term, properties, examples, and category. I think this would be an excellent tool to use in a science classroom when learning about the classifications of animals. I also think this would work in an English class to help students understand word roots.
Reading Rocket Strategies
This site contained so many strategies for helping students to be metacognitive and take part in purposeful reading. It is important to teach students how to monitor their comprehension and self-evaluate their understanding as they read. Teaching students to ask the right questions as they read should be used across all content areas to help students comprehend all types of texts.
Baily

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As a Social Studies teacher I love the ReadingQuest site! I know the strategies can be used across the board but I love the graphic organizers! I think not only secondary students can use them but some of them my 4th graders can use.  The adlit site was great as well. If you do not know what something is you can click on it for an explanation. I can now say from experience the SQ3R process is awesome. I know I paid far more attention while I was reading and was able to better comprehend. I am sure for secondary students who are trying to focus on what is important, among all the other stuff they are doing and thinking, this strategy and pages to go with it would be great!
Erin