Before, During, and After Reading Strategies
Below are several strategies to use daily in your classroom. If the strategy is highlighted in red, you may click on the link and you will find a description on how to use the strategy and a blank graphic organizer, if applicable.
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Remember: Have your BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER strategy cards posted in your room with your daily strategies shown. You can create your OWN strategies, these are just merely starting points and suggestions.
Not seeing what you are looking for or have questions, please contact me. Have suggestions or other ideas, please share!
Remember: Have your BEFORE, DURING, and AFTER strategy cards posted in your room with your daily strategies shown. You can create your OWN strategies, these are just merely starting points and suggestions.
Before Reading Strategies Quick Write
ABC Brainstorm/Summary (activate prior knowledge, summarizing) Preview and Predict Preview Chart Brain Warmers (activate prior knowledge) Character Quotes (predicting and character traits) Think Aloud Knowledge Rating Scale (previewing vocabulary) Table Talk PLAN Carousel Brainstorming (activate prior knowledge) Thinking Maps Thinking Map Templates: Tree MapTemplate Circle Map Template Bubble Map Template Double Bubble Map Template Brace Map Template Flow Map Template Flow Map Template 2 Multi-Flow Map Template Bridge Map Template Give One, Get One (activate prior knowledge) K-W-L Chart or K-W-L Plus (activating prior knowledge, categorizing) Anticipation Guide (activate prior knowledge, connections to text, misconceptions) Five Word Prediction (predicting, activate prior knowledge, purpose for reading, introduce vocabulary) Talking Drawings THIEVES (previewing text) Text Previews Read Around the Text (previewing) Problematic Solutions Think Pair Share (discussion, collaboration) Semantic Map List-Group-Label-Write Graphic Organizers INSERT QUAD (Questions, Answers, and Details) (comprehension) |
During Reading StrategiesCarousel
Placemat Coding the Text (making connections) Fold the Line Reading (comprehension, paraphrasing) Graphic Organizers It Says.....I Say (comprehension, making inferences) Save the Last Word for Me INSERT Say Something (Connections, Making Meaning & Understanding, Predictions, Questioning, Summarizing) QUAD (Questions, Answers, and Details) (comprehension) X Marks the Spot Margin Notes Pairs Read (paraphrasing,comprehension, listening) 3 Minute Pause (comprehension) K-W-L Chart or K-W-L Plus (activating prior knowledge, categorizing) Thinking Maps (See before column) Venn Diagram T-Chart Paired/Group Summary Sticky Note Snapshots (visualizing) Magnet Summary Think Aloud Compass Group: Four-Way Share (discussion) Reciprocal Teaching 3-2-1 (discussion, sequencing, cause and effect) Jot Chart SIP (comprehension, summarizing, imaging, predicting) Jigsaw Groups Table Talk Three Minute Pause Think-Pair-Share |
After Reading Strategies 3-2-1 (discussion, sequencing, cause and effect)
Anticipation Guide (activate prior knowledge, connections to text, misconceptions) ABC Brainstorm/Summary (activate prior knowledge, summarizing) Quick Write (comprehension, paraphrasing, written responses) Five Word Prediction Snowball Summaries (comprehension) K-W-L Chart or K-W-L Plus (activating prior knowledge, categorizing) SIP (comprehension, summarizing, imaging, predicting) Thinking Maps (see before column) Venn Diagram Milling to Music (comprehension) T-Chart Paired/Group Summary Graffiti One-Pager Magnet Summary Pizza Wheel (comprehension, recall) RAFT Paper (ROLE, AUTHOR, FORMAT, TOPIC) (perspective, author's purpose, audience, format) Think Aloud Fish Bowl Discussion (comprehension) Semantic Map Exit Slips (Parking Lot) (reflecting and comprehension) Think-Pair-Share (discussion, collaboration) INSERT It Says.....I Say (comprehension, making inferences) Save the Last Word for Me Discussion Web Journal Response QUAD (Questions, Answers, and Details) (comprehension) Graphic Organizers Carousel Clinks and Clunks (assess comprehension levels and how to improve levels) |