Prior Knowledge
Comprehension
Vocabulary
Writing
Studying Text
100
This strategy provides a series of statements that elicit anticipation and prediction. The reader's expectations about meaning are raised before they read the text.
What is an anticipation guide?
100
This strategy encourages students to engage the text and each other in thoughtful discussion by creating a framework for students to consider different sides of an issue before drawing conclusions.
What is a discussion web?
100
With this strategy, students look at words or phrases in a circle and choose what section doesn't belong.
What is a concept circle?
100
This strategy establishes a role-play situation in which students are asked to write letters in response to the material they are studying.
What is a Unsent Letter?
100
This graphic organizer represents a network of relationships that exists between superordinate concepts and subordinate concepts.
What is a Network Tree?
200
Students use visual imagery to enhance their comprehension of a text after the teacher reads a brief synopsis of text to them. This introduces the students to the basic setting of the story and to the conflict that will develop in its plot. Then, the students close their eyes and try to picture a scene they might read about.
What is IEPC (Imagine, Elaborate, Predict, Confirm)?
200
This strategy encourages students to ask questions about what an author might mean or what message an author is trying to send while reading.
What is QtA (Question the Author)?
200
When students brainstorm lists of words that are related to a topic and then put those words in logical categories, the strategy is known as this.
What is List-Group-Label?
200
This strategy is a way to create permanent records of what readers are feeling and thinking as they interact with texts.
What is a Response Journal?
200
When a student uses codes to mark various aspects of a text as they read. Examples might include an exclamation mark for interesting information and a question mark for something the student does not understand.
What are Text Annotations?
300
This strategy helps students connect what they see in their mind's eye to what they will study and motivates them to learn more about the topic. They visualize or create mental images.
What is guided imagery?
300
When using this strategy, teachers make their thinking explicit by verbalizing their thoughts while reading orally.
What is a think-aloud?
300
When students choose three vocabulary words and make three separate sentences using two of those words at a time, they are using what strategy?
What is a vocabulary triangle?
300
When using this strategy, you must determine a role, an audience, a format, and a topic.
What is a RAFT?
300
This strategy helps students organize information so they can compare and contrast concepts by putting different points on either side of the T.
What are T-Notes?
400
This strategy uses clue words associated with a story to help readers write their own versions of the story prior to reading it.
What is creating story impressions?
400
With this strategy, answers to questions can either be right there in the text, think and search answers, author and you answers, or own your own answers.
What are QARs (Question-Answer Relationships)?
400
This strategy helps students build independence as word learners by having them work in groups of two to five to nominate a word in a reading passage that they want to learn more about.
What is the Vocabulary Self-Collection strategy?
400
This strategy is designed to trigger thoughtful reading and writing by having students "get inside the skin" of a character or subject under study.
What is a POVG (Point of View Guide)?
400
This type of graphic organizer helps students identify important ideas and shows how the ideas fit together by starting with a central (core) concept and adding strands that explain the concept and supports that further distinguish one strand from another.
What is a Semantic (or Cognitive) Map?
500
When the teacher creates a perspective for a student that causes them to solve a problem using their knowledge and experience, this is called what?
What is a problematic perspective?
500
When using this strategy, students read, turn their books face down and tell what they remember, recognize there are several things they may not remember, look back at their books, and add further information.
What is GRP (Guided Reading Procedure)?
500
This strategy requires students to analyze how words are conceptually related to one another by making a grid to help them analyze similarities and differences among the words.
What is a Semantic Feature Analysis?
500
This strategy requires students to play with ideas using language in a poetic framework. This helps students to organize, review, and summarize what they have learned in a concise and creative manner.
What is a Biopoem?
500
This strategy requires students to take notes on a topic and then turn their notes into questions that could be asked about the topic. Finally, students write a summary on the topic that synthesizes all of the key concepts based on the detailed notes and questions.
What are Cornell Notes?
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