Reading+Strategies

Below from: http://www.dce.k12.wi.us/srhigh/socialstudies/Strategies/reading.htm

The following are helpful Social Studies Reading links:

[|Reading Quest: Making Sense in Social Studies]

This is a web site designed for social studies teachers who wish to more effectively engage their students with the content in their classes. ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of comprehension and content reading strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies.

[|Instructional Strategies for Content Area Reading Instruction] (PDF)

Explains strategies to use before, during, and after reading.

[Studies|Ms. Merashaf’s Content Area Reading Page]

Numerous useful strategies and links on content area reading

[|Content Area Literacy Strategies]

Reading strategies are grouped in four areas:
 * 1) Attitudes, Interests, and Prior Knowledge
 * 2) Comprehension
 * 3) Word Meaning
 * 4) Writing and provide several reading strategies under each area

[|Content Area Teaching Reading Strategies]

A simple explanation of before, during and after reading strategies

[|Reading in the Content Areas]

Explanations on how to use a variety of before, during and after reading strategies

[|Reading Strategies with Lesson Plans]

This web site divides reading strategies into four areas: before, during, after, and vocabulary strategies.

[|Journey North 20 Best Practices Reading Strategies]

An easy to use web site with 20 reading strategies

[|Bring the Ice Maiden to Life: Engaging Adolescents in Learning Through Picture Book Read-Alouds in Content Areas](PDF)

As the title suggests, this is an article about the value of reading read-aloud pictures books in content areas.

[|Learning Enrichment: Reading Skills in the Social Studies]

This site contains many useful research-oriented reading links.

[|Literacy Skills for the Social Studies Classroom]

A helpful web site with links regarding content reading.

[|Strategies in Action: Being a Strategic Teacher of Social Studies]

This piece is a section of the Online Learning Centre, which was created by the government of New Zealand. Strategies for teaching A-Z.

[|Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom]

This is a page on the Holt, Rinehart and Winston web site that offers practice activities to help struggling readers with comprehension.

[|Reading Strategies: Scaffolding Students’ Interactions with Text]

Numerous Reading Strategies

[|Social Studies, History and Civics: Active Reading Phase]

Online activities that promote information literacy – many useful links

[|Social Studies School Services – Downloadable Pages for Reading and Social Studies] (PDF)

This Social Studies School Services site features a downloadable lesson on using context clues from the book Content Area Reading Strategies.

[|Teaching Today: Reading Strategies]

This Glencoe site features weekly reading tips, featured articles and downloadable reading activity pages.

[|Content Informal Reading Inventory (CIRI)] (PDF)

An informal reading inventory for World Studies

[|Dan Kurland’s Critical Reading]

The Fundamentals of Critical Reading and Effective Writing

[|Strategies for Reading Social Studies Text]

Strategies include "Power Thinking," "Selective Underlining," "Sticky Note Discussions," "Power Mapping," and "Column Notes." [|A resource book for teaching reading in social studies]

[|Reading Strategies for the Social Studies Classroom]

Use these practice activities to help struggling readers with comprehension. The activities were developed by Dr. Judith Irvin, one of the nation’s leading experts on teaching reading to secondary students. For each strategy, you will find one activity targeted at U.S. history and another targeted at world studies

[|Reciprocal Teaching: A Reading Strategy]

This is a monograph which explains how to use the highly effective strategy of reciprocal teaching.

[|Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light: Reading Decisions in a Social Studies Classroom]An article written by an educator about reading strategies she uses in her social studies classroom

[|Instructional Strategies]

The website describes a variety of instructional strategies that can be used to assist students to develop social studies concepts and comprehend their course material. The instructional strategies described and exemplified on the following pages are designed to enhance comprehension, develop concepts and encourage critical and reflective thought.

[|Why and How I Teach With Historical Fiction]

Blending stories into a study of history turns the past into a dynamic place. Historical fiction doesn't stand alone in my instructional program; even the best literature cannot address skills and processes unique to social studies that kids must learn. Students balance fiction with fact, validate historical hypotheses with research. Historical fiction is the spice.

[|Tales of the Blue and Grey – Civil War Fiction]

Contains Civil War Fiction excerpts

[|Run and Read – Historical Fiction Novel]

Contains links to historical fiction websites. The Run and Read homepage contains enormous information on reading

[|Authors and Titles in Historical Fiction]

Contains historical fiction links

[|A Partial Annotated Reference List]

Contains a listing of historical fiction which can be used with students

[|Historical Fiction vs. History]

Contains numerous historical fiction links

[|Historical Novel Society]

Contains numerous examples of historical fiction

[|Book Best]

Contains historical fiction books by topic/time period. Shows the actual front covers of the books

[|Historical Fiction Genre Study]

Contains questions to help students evaluate the historical accuracy of what they are reading