Reading Comprehension
Strategies:
Activating or Building Background Knowledge
Using Sensory Images
Making Predictions and Inferences
Questioning
Determining Main Ideas
Using Fix-up Options
Synthesizing
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Research-based Instructional
Strategies:
Category |
Percentile Gain |
Identifying similarities and differences |
45
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Summarizing and note taking |
34
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Nonlinguistic representations |
27
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Cooperative learning |
27
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Setting objectives and providing feedback |
23
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Questions, cues, and advance organizers |
22
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Selected from Marzano, Robert. J., Debra J. Pickering, and Jane
E. Pollock. 2001. Classroom instruction that works: Research-based
strategies for increasing student achievement. Alexandria,
VA: Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.
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Coteaching
Approaches:
- One Teaching, One Supporting
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- One educator is responsible for teaching the lesson while
the other observes the lesson, monitors particular students,
and/or provides assistance as needed.
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- Station or Center Teaching
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- After determining curriculum content for multiple learning
stations, each educator takes responsibility for facilitating
one or more learning centers. In some centers, students may
work independently of adult support.
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- After collaborative planning, each educator works with half
the class to teach the same or similar content. Groups may
switch and/or reconvene as a whole class to share, debrief,
and/or reflect.
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- One educator pre-teaches or re-teaches concepts to a small
group while the other educator teaches a different lesson
to the larger group. (Pre-teaching vocabulary or other lesson
components can be especially valuable for English language
learners or special needs students.)
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- Educators teach together by assuming different roles during
instruction, such as reader or recorder or questioner and
responder, modeling partner work, role playing or debating,
and more.
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Adapted from Friend, Marilyn, and Lynne
Cook. 1996. Interactions: Collaboration skills for school professionals,
2d ed. White Plains, NY: Longman. |
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Hand Movements
for Water Dance (Thomas Locker):
Rain |
Fluttering fingers down
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Mountain Stream |
Small undulations with one hand (perpendicular
to the floor)
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Waterfall |
Downward slide
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Lake |
Circle both arms in front of you
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River |
Large undulations with one hand and wrist (parallel
to the floor)
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Ocean (Sea) |
Crest and trough motion to imitate waves
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Mist |
Rising fingertips to suggest tiny drops
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Clouds |
Two cupped hands to form one cloud
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Storm Front |
Move hands farther apart for storm front
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Thunderhead |
Even farther apart and shake them lightly for
thunderhead
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Storm |
Flick open fingers and clap hands for lightning
and thunder
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Rainbow |
Make an arch from right to left with one hand
(left to right for students)
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Diane Skorupski, M.L.S., Teacher-Librarian,
Maldonado Elementary School, Tucson Unified School District, Tucson,
AZ
Diane.Skorupski@tusd1.org
or dskorupski@comcast.net
Judi Moreillon, Ph.D., Literacies and Libraries
Consultant
info@storytrail.com or storypower@theriver.com
Updated: 25 November 2006
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