Into The Book

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2011/12 Program Schedule

101. Using Prior Knowledge

102. Making Connections

Students on using connection strategies to understand texts.

103. Questioning

A demonstration of the difference between "thin" or "right there" questions and "thick" questions, which are deeper and provoke reflection and greater consideration.

104. Visualizing

Students practice creating mental images from text.

105. Inferring

A class discovers types of clues to help them make inferences while they read.

106. Summarizing

Students work on strategies for summarizing a fiction story.

107. Evaluating

Students select criteria to evaluate texts.

108. Synthesizing

A reading specialist uses a newspaper article to model for her students how we think about different things while we read, and what new knowledge we take away with us after we've read.

109. Using Strategies Together

Students work on developing mental files called schema to help them organize different strategies they can use to understand what they read.

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