Transcript Literacy in the Content Area

Literacy in the Content Area
Science Education 7-12
Lyndonville Central School
Cover Page
Introductions
• Kathy Arminio
– MAARS Monroe 2-Orleans
BOCES
• Kathy Hoppe
– Science Support K-12
Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
• Agenda
What do strategic learners do?
• Read this paragraph on
your own and develop a
title for the paragraph
Why is it important to teach literacy
skills in Science classes?
• Promotes thinking
• Allows students to discern
• Improves results on exams
• Preparation for success in
college
• Helps students become
strategic learners
What is a strategic learner?
• Strategic Learners: self
select effective learning
strategies and assess their
own progress
Types of strategies
• Pre-Reading
• During Reading
• Post Reading
• Other Categories for
Grouping Strategies
Key to helping students read:
Teach the literacy strategies
• If you hand them a
template, it simply
becomes a worksheet
• Think about how you want
students to think about the
content?
• Help students help
themselves
– Consider Reading Levels
Pre and During Reading
• Think Aloud Reading Strategy
– Helping students read science
textbooks
– LE Example
• Anticipation Guide
– Sample
• Figuring Out What It Means
• Just For Chem Lab
• Stop and Spin
– Article on Ozone
• Vocabulary Survey
• Focused Free Write
• Word Splash
– Gallery Walk
• THEIVES Practice
• LUNCH
Make and Take
• Choose one strategy and
develop a lesson using an
article/text that you will use in
your class before we meet
again (4/23)
• Come back on 4/23 with
student work to share
– One exemplar
– One meeting standards
– One not meeting standards
Strategic Learners Link to Prior
Knowledge
• Complete this passage
• Answers with different
context
During and Post-Reading
• Play-Doh Strategy
• Brainstorming
– Facts and Questions
• Concept Mapping
– Activity Instructions
– Template
• Analogies
• Know/Don’t Know: That’s the
Question
• Shed Some Light On The
Subject
• Summary Pyramid
• Brain-Writing Pool
• 3-2-1 Send Off
Make and Take
• Choose one strategy and
develop a lesson using an
article/text that you will use in
your class before we meet
again (4/23)
• Come back on 4/23 with
student work to share
– One exemplar
– One meeting standards
– One not meeting standards