Getting+Students+to+Think

= Getting Students to Think: Essential Lessons for Building Literacy Skills =

Our Time Reading in Grades 1-4 ||= How We Spend Our Time Reading as Adults || Data from Roger Farr  *Shows the importance of teaching reading and writing skills in the content areas as well as in ELA classes. Critical Areas of Comprehension
 * = How We Currently Spend
 * = Literature 80% ||= Literature 8% ||
 * = Math 16% ||= Math 16% ||
 * = Social Studies 2% ||= Social Studies 50% ||
 * = Science 2% ||= Science 30% ||

 Monitoring Comprehension   Using Graphic and Semantic Organizers Generating and Answering Questions Recognizing Text Structure Summarizing Using Prior Knowledge/Schema/Connections/Text-to-Self, -Text, -World Using Mental Images

[|Strategy Bookmarks] [|Plot Bookmark/Foldable] [|Literary Elements "Fortune Teller"] [|Literature Learning Ladders] - book-technology connections ** Bibliography ** Sigmon, C. (2009, January 28). //Getting Students to Think:// //Essential Lessons for Building Literacy Skills.// Presented at an SDE conference in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Keene, E. and Zimmermann, S. (1997) //Mosaic of Thought.// Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.

Harvey, S. and Goudvis, A. (2000) //Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding//. Portland, ME; Stenhouse.