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.

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.