Content Area Learning Strategies Table of Contents

Proficient Teachers... / Tools Used for Collaborative Group Work / Page
Teach What Good Readers Do / What Proficient Readers Do Chart / 1-2
Understand the Failure Cycle / The Failure Cycle / 3
Are Efficient in getting students into pairs and small groups. / Think, Pair, Share, (Four) Square / 4
Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up / 5
Give One, Get One / 6
Proficient Readers... / Tools That Teach the Use Key Strategies / Page
Are clear about their purpose for reading and review the text before they read. / Reading with a Purpose (House) / 9
Thieves / 11
Feature Story / 17
CATS: Text Organizational Structure Survey / 21
Tap their prior knowledge about the subject before their read. / Dump and Clump / 24
KWL and its adaptations / 26
Anticipation Guides / 28
Use meta-cognitive strategies (word learning and “fix-up” strategies) in the process of reading. / Click and Clunk / 30
Think Aloud / 31
Insert Strategy / 35
Good Better Best Understanding / 37
Clarifying Cue Card / 39
Four Square Concept Box (Frayer Model) / 41
I Have... Who has...? / 44
Make connections when they read. / Text Connect / 46
LINK Thinking: List, Inquire, Note, Know / 48
Ticket Exchange and The Final Word / 50
Determine the most important ideas or themes. / Plus, Minus, and Interesting / 51
The Cornell Note-Taking System / 53
Folder File Folder / 54
Folded Book Mark / 55
Exit Tickets / 57
Synthesize as they read. / Get the Gist and Wrap It Up / 62
Consensus Definition / 63
Pie Partners / 64
Evoke images while reading. / Open Mind / 65
Picture This: Movie of the Mind / 66
Ask questions. / Thick and Thin / 68
QAR / 70
Stretch It / 73
STRAP / 74
Make predictions and inferences. / Guess and Adjust / 75
PACA / 77
Tea Party and We Think / 78