Flivver Interventions: Reading Strategies
This page was developed as a resource to improve student reading comprehension in all disciplines. These resources were compiled from a variety of websites, teacher resources, and teacher collaboration.
Background:
An identified area of academic concern from many high school teachers is the discrepancy between students' oral reading and students' reading comprehension. We, as teachers, often assume because a student can "read" the material in a high school course, the student can understand the material. This is not necessarily the case. Likewise, the perception exists that by the time students reach high school teachers should no longer need to provide reading instruction to students. This is also not the case. Understanding visual and analytic texts is a skill that students need in their everyday lives and it is a skill that needs to be taught. As the rigor of the texts increases, so must teachers' instruction of comprehension strategies. Integrating literacy strategies into content instruction will help students to make explicit connections between those strategies and content learning. EVERY teacher in EVERY subject can help EVERY student reach his or her potential by TEACHING students how to be better readers. The resources compiled here are designed to help secondary education teachers provide their students with the tools to succeed. (FRI Team)
Vocabulary Strategies
Because vocabulary has such a strong correlation to comprehension, providing students with a variety of tools to improve academic vocabulary will make them stronger readers and better overall students. Below are several of these tools. As always, modeling these tools is essential to student success.
1. Knowledge Rating Scale: Use this graphic organizer to determine student familiarity with vocabulary words. You may want to use this to guide your instruction. (Source: Milford High School RTI)
Example of Knowledge Rating Scale for Math: Download File
2. The Frayer Model & all its Variations: The Frayer Model "instructional strategy promotes critical thinking and helps students to identify and understand unfamiliar vocabulary. The Frayer Model can be used with the entire class, small groups, or for individual work. The Frayer Model draws on a student's prior knowledge to build connections among new concepts and creates a visual reference by which students learn to compare attributes and examples" ("Frayer Model." All About Adolescent Literacy. adlit.org.) Below are a variety of resources for incorporating this tried and true method into every classroom. (Source: Milford High School RTI)
Frayer Model Folding Directions: Download File
Frayer Model Example 1: Download File
Frayer Model Example 2: Download File
Frayer Model for Math: Download File
This page was developed as a resource to improve student reading comprehension in all disciplines. These resources were compiled from a variety of websites, teacher resources, and teacher collaboration.
Background:
An identified area of academic concern from many high school teachers is the discrepancy between students' oral reading and students' reading comprehension. We, as teachers, often assume because a student can "read" the material in a high school course, the student can understand the material. This is not necessarily the case. Likewise, the perception exists that by the time students reach high school teachers should no longer need to provide reading instruction to students. This is also not the case. Understanding visual and analytic texts is a skill that students need in their everyday lives and it is a skill that needs to be taught. As the rigor of the texts increases, so must teachers' instruction of comprehension strategies. Integrating literacy strategies into content instruction will help students to make explicit connections between those strategies and content learning. EVERY teacher in EVERY subject can help EVERY student reach his or her potential by TEACHING students how to be better readers. The resources compiled here are designed to help secondary education teachers provide their students with the tools to succeed. (FRI Team)
Vocabulary Strategies
Because vocabulary has such a strong correlation to comprehension, providing students with a variety of tools to improve academic vocabulary will make them stronger readers and better overall students. Below are several of these tools. As always, modeling these tools is essential to student success.
1. Knowledge Rating Scale: Use this graphic organizer to determine student familiarity with vocabulary words. You may want to use this to guide your instruction. (Source: Milford High School RTI)
Example of Knowledge Rating Scale for Math: Download File
2. The Frayer Model & all its Variations: The Frayer Model "instructional strategy promotes critical thinking and helps students to identify and understand unfamiliar vocabulary. The Frayer Model can be used with the entire class, small groups, or for individual work. The Frayer Model draws on a student's prior knowledge to build connections among new concepts and creates a visual reference by which students learn to compare attributes and examples" ("Frayer Model." All About Adolescent Literacy. adlit.org.) Below are a variety of resources for incorporating this tried and true method into every classroom. (Source: Milford High School RTI)
Frayer Model Folding Directions: Download File
Frayer Model Example 1: Download File
Frayer Model Example 2: Download File
Frayer Model for Math: Download File
3. Concept Map: Use this graphic organizer to help students synthesize new information. Through breaking new vocabulary words into smaller, more manageable concepts, the words will be more likely to remain in students' memories. (Source: Milford High School RTI)
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4. Vocabulary Strategies: This document has a large variety of techniques/strategies. From vocabulary logs to vocabulary games, from graphic organizers to practice activities, the information in this one resource will help set you and your students on the path to academic success.
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From The Common Core:
"Because they are heard frequently in numerous contexts and with nonverbal communication, Tier 1 words rarely require explicit instruction. Examples of Tier 1 words are clock, baby, happy and walk. Tier 2 high frequency words are those that are used by mature language users across several content areas."
Below is a compilation of Tier 2 Words recommended for high school students. These should be learned/taught cross-curricular to assist students in understanding curriculum content and their texts, as well as improving vocabulary for such tests as the SAT.
"Tier 2" Vocabulary Words
1. accelerate, achieve, adjacent, alternative, analyze, approach, approximate, arbitrary
2. assert, assess, assign, assume, authorize, automatic, chapter, compensate, complex
3. complicate, comply, component, comprehend, conceive, concentrate, concept
4. conclude, consequence, consist, constant, construct, consult, context, contrast
5. contribute, convert, create, criterion, crucial, data, define, definite
6. demonstrate, denote, derive, design, devise, devote, dimension, distinct, distort
7. element, emphasize, empirical, ensure, entity, environment, equate, equivalent
8. establish, evaluate, evident, expand, expose, external, feasible, fluctuate, focus
9. formulate, function, generate, guarantee, hypothesis, identify, ignore, illustrate
10. impact, implicit, imply, indicate, individual, inhibit
11. initial, innovation, intense, interpret, intuitive, involve, isolate, magnetic, magnitude
12. major, manipulate, mathematics, method, minimum, modify, negative, notion, obtain
13. obvious, occur, passive, period, perspective, pertinent, phase, phenomena, portion
14. portion, potential, precede, precise, presume, prime, principle, proceed, publish
15. pursue, random, range, react, verify, vertical
16. region, require, respective, restrict, reverse, role, section, segment, select, sequence
17. series, shift, signify, similar, simultaneous, sophisticated, species, specify, stable
18. statistic, status, structure, subsequent, suffice, sum, summary, technique, technology
19. tense, theory, trace, tradition, transmit, ultimate, undergo, usage, valid, vary, verbal