Literacy

=Literacy Strategies - Overview=

//__**Monitoring for Meaning**__// - knowing when you know, knowing when you don't know and having specific strategies for self monitoring of text.

//__**Using and creating schema**__// - making connections between the new and the known, building and activating background knowledge.

Overview of Schema with resources

//__**Asking questions**__// - generating questions before, during, and after reading that lead you deeper into the text. [|Link to website about questioning with video resources] [|Link to Reading Lady website with questioning resources]

//__**Determining importance**__// - deciding what matters most, what is worth remembering.


 * //__Inferring__//** - combining background knowledge with information from the text to predict, conclude, make judgements, and interpret.

//__**Using sensory images**__// - creating mental both sensory and emotional images to deepen and stretch meaningn.

Overview Visualizing-Sensory images


 * //__Synthesizing__//** - creating an evolution of meaning by combining understanding with knowledge from other text/sources.

**__Elementary__**
 * __Elementary Literacy Calendar with linked web resources:__** [[file:Literacy Calendar Elementary.xls]]

Schema Strategy Lessons:

Visualizing Lessons

Inference Lessons

**__Middle School__**


 * __ Middle School Literacy Calendar with linked web resources: __**



  __**High School**__

**General Literacy Resources**
Calendar for Literacy Strategies

[|Teacher Bag of Tricks for Literacy Strategies]

[|Math Graphic Organizers]

[|Social Studies Reading Comprehension Strategies]

[|Reading Strategies for All Teachers]

**__Using and Creating Schema__**
Brainstorming
 * [[file:Visio-Brainstorming Graphic Organizer.pdf]]
 * [|Brainstorming Ideas and Lessons]

Word Splash
 * [|Word Splash Template]
 * [|Word Splash Lesson]

**__Asking Questions__**
DRTA
 * [|What is DRTA?]
 * [|DRTA Bookmark]
 * [[file:Think Sheet.doc]]

Other Questioning Lesson Ideas
 * [|Questioning Using Sticky Notes]
 * [|Students Sharing Questions]

**__Using Sensory Images__**
Reading Road Map
 * [[file:Reading Roadmap Template.ppt]]

Four Block Frayer Model
 * [|Info and Lesson Ideas]

**__Inferring__**

 * [|Tips about Teaching Inferring]

T-Charts
 * [|T-chart instructions]
 * [|T-chart]

Question, It Says, I Say, and So I Infer
 * [|Handouts]

**__Determining Importance__**
DBQ template
 * [|Template]

Story Mapping
 * [|Explanation and Resources]

Semantic Maps
 * [[file:Think Sheet for Semantic Mapping.doc]]

**__Monitoring for Meaning__**
Guided Notes
 * [|Lesson Ideas]
 * Sample Lesson with Notes [[file:photosynthesis notes 2.ppt]]

KWL
 * http://www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/resources/PDF/GOOD_TV_K_2_pdf_s/62176_InRCd_86.pdf

Flag and Tag
 * [|Thick and Thin]

**__Synthesizing__**
Think Writing
 * [|Lesson Plan]

Exit Slips
 * [|Lesson Plan]

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