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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Using Textbooks More Effectively
Here are some resources from the ORC collection* related to
this month's theme, Using Textbooks More Effectively. This month we have divided
the resources into two groups. The first focuses on text structures and text features
and the second on comprehension strategies. Also Rees and DiPillo's article "
Reader's Theater: A Strategy to Make Social Studies Click" from the September
2006 issue of In Perspective offers some super suggestions.
Text Structures and Text Features
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| Textbook Evaluation |   | ORC# 8773 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/tooltextbookeval.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This two-page document from Jim Burke's Web Companion Homepage for Illuminating Texts presents an outline approach for introducing textbooks to students. Writing with adolescent learners in mind, the author shows both students and teachers how to organize note-taking, understand a textbook's layout, and navigate challenging text using a myriad of strategies.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
| Compare and Contrast Electronic Text With Traditionally Printed Text | | ORC# 2780 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=90 | | RESOURCE TYPE: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 8 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: With the increased use of the Internet, it is important for students to become familiar with the unique characteristics of electronic texts and learn techniques to navigate them effectively and efficiently. This lesson supports middle school students' exploration of an online educational website that incorporates a variety of electronic features including graphics, digitized speech, and video.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Arts & Communication | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Access: Textbook Feature Analysis | | ORC# 8863 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/textbookanalysis.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 7 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This textbook feature analysis, a two-page activity that may be copied for classroom use, guides students through a series of questions for understanding their most challenging textbooks. Questions for types of text, sidebars, typography, color, symbols and icons, images and graphics, organization, navigation (headers and footers), testing, note-making strategies, reading speed, and concerns all appear on the left-hand side of the page, while boxes on the right-hand side offer room for students to write their responses.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
Comprehension Strategies
| Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? [excerpt]: Chapter 1, "Introduction: 'I'm the Stupid Lady from Denver...'" | | ORC# 3704 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.stenhouse.com/pdfs/0376ch01.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: Building on the experiences gained in her own language arts classroom as well as those of colleagues in different disciplines, Cris Tovani, author of I Read It, but I Don't Get It, takes on the challenge of helping students and teachers apply reading comprehension strategies in any subject. She understands why many teachers of adolescents ask "do I really have to teach reading?" and shows compassion and insight for those teachers wondering how to add yet another new element to an already overloaded curriculum.... | | CAREER FIELDS: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Business & Administrative Services, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Finance, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems, General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Make Science Reading Fun and Meaningful in Middle School! | | ORC# 4361 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.ohiorc.org/adlit/in_perspective_content.aspx?parentID... | | RESOURCE TYPE: Professional Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: In this article, middle school teacher Teresa Null explores teaching reading strategies in her science classroom by teaching units through scientific storylines. In small groups, students read aloud an assigned paragraph in order to share, respond to, and determine the meaning of the text.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, OhioWINS, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Questioning the Author | | ORC# 8772 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.weac.org/News/1997-98/APRIL98/read.htm | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 4 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This short article details a four-step process for teaching students the "Questioning the Author" reading strategy. Each step includes a specific classroom application, and the site is written in such a way as to address all content areas.... | | CAREER FIELDS: General Career Skills | | PROJECTS: AdLIT, Standards First | | MORE... |
| Prereading Notes | | ORC# 8774 | | |
| RESOURCE URL: http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/prereadingnotes.pdf | | RESOURCE TYPE: Content Resource | | DISCIPLINE: English Language Arts | | STANDARDS ALIGNMENT: Grades 6 - 12 | | PROFESSIONAL COMMENTARY: This one-page handout outlines, in sequential order, nine steps for students to use when pre-read a textbook or article. The handout, from Jim Burke's web site, is split into two vertical sections.... | | PROJECTS: AdLIT | | MORE... |
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