Literacy in the Content Area

Science Education 7-12Lyndonville Central SchoolCover Page

Introductions

• Kathy Arminio– MAARS Monroe 2-Orleans

BOCES

• Kathy Hoppe– Science Support K-12

Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES

• Agenda

What do strategic learners do?

• Read this paragraph on your own and develop a title for the paragraph

Why is it important to teach literacy skills in Science classes?

• Promotes thinking

• Allows students to discern

• Improves results on exams

• Preparation for success in college

• Helps students become strategic learners

What is a strategic learner?

• Strategic Learners: self select effective learning strategies and assess their own progress

Types of strategies

• Pre-Reading

• During Reading

• Post Reading

• Other Categories for Grouping Strategies

Key to helping students read: Teach the literacy strategies

• If you hand them a template, it simply becomes a worksheet

• Think about how you want students to think about the content?

• Help students help themselves– Consider Reading Levels

Pre and During Reading• Think Aloud Reading Strategy

– Helping students read science textbooks

– LE Example• Anticipation Guide

– Sample• Figuring Out What It Means• Just For Chem Lab• Stop and Spin

– Article on Ozone• Vocabulary Survey• Focused Free Write• Word Splash

– Gallery Walk• THEIVES Practice• LUNCH

Make and Take

• Choose one strategy and develop a lesson using an article/text that you will use in your class before we meet again (4/23)

• Come back on 4/23 with student work to share– One exemplar– One meeting standards– One not meeting standards

Strategic Learners Link to Prior Knowledge

• Complete this passage

• Answers with different context

During and Post-Reading• Play-Doh Strategy• Brainstorming

– Facts and Questions• Concept Mapping

– Activity Instructions– Template

• Analogies• Know/Don’t Know: That’s the

Question• Shed Some Light On The

Subject• Summary Pyramid• Brain-Writing Pool • 3-2-1 Send Off

Make and Take

• Choose one strategy and develop a lesson using an article/text that you will use in your class before we meet again (4/23)

• Come back on 4/23 with student work to share– One exemplar– One meeting standards– One not meeting standards