Reading

Schedule student for additional supports.

  • Use Flex Block to provide remediation on areas of need.
  • Schedule student for A block intervention trimester course.
  • Support student in attending before or after school help.

See list of strategies for vocabulary, writing, and comprehension on Adolescent Literacy site.

Build background knowledge on the topic and activate prior knowledge.

  • See link of how one teacher uses “text graffitti” to preview challenging text.

Support understanding of text by providing specific scaffolds.

  • Use top-down webs to indicate relationships between the topic, main ideas, and supporting details. See video to learn more about top down webs.
  • Focus on the use of one graphic organizer.
  • Implement systematic interpretive tasks (such as main idea/details, author’s purpose, inferences, etc.)

Support student engagement by providing choice and incorporating student interest and backgrounds.

  • See strategies for providing multiple means of engagement.
  • Use NewsELA, commonlit.org, and Read Works to provide the same digital/print text at multiple Lexile levels and incorporate specific reading comprehension and writing practice.
  • Insure student text provides for inclusion of various cultures.
  • Use literature circle model in Humanities classes to provide for student choice in reading selections.

Provide access to digital texts and support with accessibly feature.

  • Use accessibility feature of Google Chrome, i.e. text to speech. See resource.
  • Provide options for reading including written as well as digital texts.
  • Print Friendly and Mercury Reader clear away pictures/text to make a cleaner copy of a webpage.

Summarize texts to help preview upcoming reading or to summarize the content of a reading.

  • Rewordify allows users to paste-in text and simplify the language and vocabulary in the text.
  • Online Summarizing Tool allows user to cut and paste text or URL of site, the user is provided with a summary of the text.
  • Provide multiple means for students to represent their summaries.

Teach explicit student two-column note taking format by providing models, think alouds, and scaffolds.

  • See video to learn more about two-column note format.

Highlight text features of textbooks such as heading, subcategories, and vocabulary.

  • Lead students in a text feature walk of their books.
  • Provide direct instruction around visual analysis of text including how to interpret infographics and charts.

Provide direct instruction in active reading comprehension strategies.

  • See link for Reciprocal Teaching Resources. Use the strategies of predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing to help support comprehension.
  • Provide direct instruction and modeling in the annotation of text and how to read actively.
  • Provide exemplars and clear criteria for the completion of dialectical journals.