Teachers of Significance

DURING READING STRATEGIES In his book, Subjects Matter, Harvey “Smokey” Daniels identifies a couple of dozen reading strategies to boost metacognition. Here is a short list of some of the during-reading strategies he mentions, and each has a strong research base. Think Aloud Reading Aloud (Pairs) Dramatic Role Play Post-it Response Notes Annotating Text Coding Text Sketching my way through the text Where do you stand? EXAMPLE POST-IT NOTES This week, I chose to use the post-it note activity with the novel, The Things They Carried. Students identified key nouns/objects from the chapter.  In LARGE letters. Students wrote associated feelings with each, noting the importance for the text: around the key objects, they wrote associated connotations. What associations can be made with each? What are the connotations concerned? Students then posted these on the board, and a group of students sorted them and explained what each group has in common (list-group-labe...