During Reading
During reading strategies help students make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and keep students focused on the reading material.
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Concept Maps
A concept map is a specific type of graphic organizer that help students visualize various connections between words or phrases and a main idea. There are several types of concept maps; some are hierarchical while others connect information without categorizing ideas.
First Lines
First Lines is a strategy in which students read the beginning sentences from assigned readings and make predictions about the content of what they're about to read.
Inquiry Charts (I-Charts)
The Inquiry Chart (I-Chart) is a strategy that enables students to generate meaningful questions about a topic and organize their writing. Students integrate prior knowledge or thoughts about the topic with additional information found in several sources.
Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a strategy that emphasizes cooperative learning by providing students an opportunity to actively help each other build comprehension. Teachers use this technique to assign students to reading groups composed of varying skill levels.
Paired Reading
The Paired Reading strategy encourages peer teaching and learning. Students are divided into pairs and read along together or take turns reading aloud to each other. Pairs can have the same reading ability or can include a more fluent reader with a less fluent reader.
Paragraph Shrinking
Paragraph Shrinking is an activity that was developed as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS). PALS is a classwide peer tutoring program in which teachers carefully partner a student with a classmate (Link to PALS Strategy page). The Paragraph Shrinking strategy allows each student to take turns reading, pausing, and summarizing the main points of each paragraph. The students provide each other with feedback as a way to monitor comprehension.
Partner Reading
Partner Reading is a cooperative learning strategy in which two students work together to read an assigned text. This strategy is often used as part of the Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS).
