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Reading Survey Teacher Tube Video

This website is for all the teachers looking for reading strategies, vocabulary strategies, and anything that will help in a classroom.  Content can be used in all subject areas and any grade level.  These are our favorite ideas, however there is so much more to this book than we could have imagined.  Feel free to use whatever you need on this website.  If you find this website resourceful the book is even better. 
What Students Must Know
  • Determine what information is important.
  • Make connections to readings, life, and the world.
  • Learn note taking strategies in all classes.
  • Read and comprehend different types of genre.
  • Learn how to asks different types of questions.
  • Self-Select books and other types of literature.
  • Question the author of the text being read.
  • Use the habits of inquiry-questioning, comparing, clarifying, wondering, predicting.
  • Create concept cards to expand vocabulary.
  • Use repeated reading to improve fluency and comprehension.
  • Use anticipation guides
  • Use think alouds effectively.
  • Ask questions to understand stories
  • Make predictions.
  • Keep a journal or writing/reading log.
  • Draw the action.
  • Perform the text.
  • Develop prior knowledge.
  • Outline what they read.
  • Learn to summarize and paraphrase.

What Teachers Can Do

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Concept Cards

Vocabulary Strategies I

Vocabulary Strategies II

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Note Taking Strategies

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THREE-COLUMN ORGANIZER

CORNELL NOTE-TAKING FORM I

CORNELL NOTE-TAKING FORM II

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Created By Eric Hammerstrom, Adria Laplander and Vicki Lindholm