Hillsboro High School

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Pre-Reading

How do I get ready to read? Why should I read?

Key Ingredients for Effective Pre-Reading (These can be done in any order. Strategies can incorporate more than one element at a time.):

1.       Building Background Knowledge

2.      Vocabulary Development (actually a subset of Building Background Knowledge)

3.      Activating Prior Knowledge

4.      Creating Relevancy

Strategies from Academic Seminar 1.6.10:

session handout

-          Exploring Text Features to Build Background Knowledge

-          Defining Key Vocabulary to Build Background Knowledge

-          ABC Word Walls/Word Walls to Build Background Knowledge and Activate Prior Knowledge

-          Micro-lab Triads/K of KWL to Activate Prior Knowledge (micro-lab guidelines)

-          W of KWL chart to Create Relevancy

Web links for Additional Pre-Reading Strategies:

-          Greece Central School District Reading Strategies http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20index.htm

-          Reading Quest http://www.readingquest.org/strat/

-          Qu’Appelle Valley School District http://www.saskschools.ca/~qvss/curriculum/readcomp.htm#Carousel%20Brainstorm

-          Greece Central Schools-Read, Write, Think

http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ELA/6-12/Tools/Index.htm

-          Greece Central Schools Informational Text http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ELA/6-12/Reading/informational_text%209-12.htm

-          Algebra Out Loud Pre-Reading Strategies http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/86/07879689/0787968986.pdf

-          Literacy Matters http://www.literacymatters.org/content/readandwrite/reading.htm

Timers

If you would like to try using timers in your classroom,

1.      Erin Croley has hand-held timers you can borrow—send her an email,

2.      access an on-line timer

a.       http://www.online-stopwatch.com/

b.       http://www.timeme.com/timer-stopwatch.htm

c.        http://e.ggtimer.com/

d.       http://ideas.gstboces.org/programs/timer/

e.        http://www.internet4classrooms.com/timer.htm

3.      access one of the following PowerPoint timers (you can start the timer on any slide)

a.       Digital Clock

b.       Winter theme clock

c.        Spring theme clock

d.       Summer theme clock

e.        Fall theme clock

f.        timers movies you can embed in your own PowerPoint presentations: http://www.interventioncentral.org/timers.php

g.        stopwatch timer