Reading & Writing Across the Curriculum

A Collaborative Project - Plainfield South & Plainfield High School - Central Campus

 

Three Part Reading Model

Strategies to Use Before Reading
Strategies to Use During Reading

 

Strategies to Use After Reading

 

GOAL: Activate past knowledge and experiences

 

GOAL: Enable students to make personal connections, visualize, identify parts that confuse, monitor understanding and recall information

GOAL: Enlarge past knowledge, deepen understanding/engagement with text, and create connections to other texts
  • Strategies:
  • Strategies:
  • Strategies:
  • Brainstorm/Categorize
  • Make Personal Connections
  • Skim
  • Predict/Support
  • Use Prior Knowledge
  • Re-read/Question
  • Skim/Preview
  • Predict/Support/Adjust or Confirm
  • Visualize
  • Pose Questions
  • Pose Questions
  • Evaluate and Adjust
  • Fast-Write
  • Identify Confusing Parts
  • Predictions
  • Pre-teach Vocabulary
  • Self Monitor for Understanding
  • Reflect through: Talking, Writing or Drawing
  • What Do I Know?
  • Sumarize/Synthesize
  • Infer
  • What is New?
  • Re-read
  • Compare & Contrast
  • Visualize/Recall other sensory experiences
  • Use contest clues
  • Cause/Effect
  • Infer
  • Conclude/Theme
  • Note-taking
  • Summerize/Synthesize