Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary Schools: Maximizing Your Impact (ALA Editions, 2011)

ELA = English Language Arts, SCI = Science, SOC = Social Studies/History/Economics

Chapter 3 – Activating or Building Background Knowledge

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / ELA/SOC - Folktale(s) / “The Great Deed of Li Chi” and student choice / Category Matrix
Exit Slip
Advanced / SCI - Ocean Currents / Multiple formats / Category Matrix
Cornell Notemaking
Challenging / SOC - Conventions on the Rights of a Child / TakingITGlobal – Web sites / Category Matrix
NEED SUMMARY RUBRIC

Chapter 4 – Using Sensory Images

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / SOC/ELA Triangular Trade / Pathfinder
Primary Sources / List-Group-Label
Assignment Sheet
Advanced / ELA - Found Poetry / Pathfinder
Poetry / Assignment Sheet
Challenging / ELA -Personification – Extended Metaphor / I never metaphor…
Book of Qualities
Voice Thread example / Assignment Sheet
Category Matrix

Chapter 5 - Questioning

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / SCI – Health and Wellness Wiki / Online Physical Check-up Form – Physical, Mental, Emotional/Spiritual Health / Category Matrix
Wiki
Advanced / SOC - Political Cartoons / Fitzsimmons cartoon- political cartoon archive? / Category Matrix – Question Evaluation
Challenging / SCI - Forensics / Solving Crimes with Trace Evidence (GN)
Innocence Project (Web site) / Category Matrix – Exit Slip

Chapter 6 – Drawing Inferences

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / ELA - Impact of Setting on Mood and Tone / Goin’ Someplace Special – Old Man and the Sea / Anticipation Guide
Inference Category Matrix
Advanced / SOC/Fine Arts - Popular Culture / “The Scream”
Animoto Video / Inference Category Matrix
Challenging / SOC - Civil War Heroes (My Space Page) / Web-based Pathfinder / Inferences Checklist

Chapter 7 – Determining Main Ideas

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / SCI – Relevance, Currency / Search engine hits / Category Matrix
Advanced / SCI – Authority, Accuracy / Search engine hits - database / Category Matrix
Challenging / SOC - Bias / Websites / Admit Slip, Category Matrix

Chapter 8 – Using Fix-up Options

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / SOC / Gettysburg Address / Fix-up Options Graphic Organizer
Advanced / ELA / Dickinson Poem / Fix-up Options Graphic Organizer
Challenging / ELA / Harlem Renaissance Essay / Fix-up Options Graphic Organizer

Chapter 9 - Synthesizing

Level / Lesson / Texts / Graphic Organizer/Tool
Advancing / 7th-grade Social Studies / Historical fiction
and Text Set / Newspaper Clipping Generator
Advanced / Dickinson / Pathfinder and Classical Music / Category Web
Challenging / Harlem Renaissance / Musicians and Artists – Wiki example / Notemaking Graphic Organizer, Project Checklist

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