While searching the internet and the links that were given in class, I have found many different strategies that could help me out. It seemed that a lot of the searches I did brought up strategies for fictional works at first. Then I decided to do a search based on subject like “Social Studies during reading strategies”. This brought me to some strategies that could work not only on social studies but most non-fiction text books.
The first site I found some really interesting information from was the World Affairs Council at http://www.world-affairs.org/ . They had a pdf file that was about 100 pages in length that started with reading strategies and then moved into lesson plans for Social Studies. I would ask everyone to take a look both at the link to the pdf file and also the link above to the council.
The next site was www.justreadnow.com which enclosed different strategies. They are as follows: Discussion strategies, active reading strategies, vocabulary strategies, and organizational strategies. http://www.justreadnow.com/strategies/index.htm
Look under these headings and explore the different strategies that are available. I used one of them for my second reading strategy.
The third site was from the Kentucky department of education and was posted to help teacher’s model teachers of excellence. The site provided many different strategies along with videos of the teachers talking about and actually using the strategies. I found this very helpful to be able to watch the actual strategy instead of just reading about it. Please check this out. http://www.marion.k12.ky.us/Strategies/Math/socialstudies/monitor.htm
The next site came from the NY Greece school district and provided a wealth of information. http://www.greece.k12.ny.us/instruction/ela/6-12/Reading/Reading%20Strategies/reading%20strategies%20index.htm
They also seemed to be at the top of the search engine results every time I did a search. This leads me to believe that most of this class has already seen and read over some very useful strategies.
The final site that I thought was helpful was reading quest and it also provided an abundance of information. http://www.readingquest.org/strat/home.html I read through most of these and tried to understand how they all worked. This has giving me new ways to provide learning experiences for our kids.
I continued searching the internet for Social Studies and Science related strategies finding many different useful and some not so useful strategies. Hopefully when you become a teacher you will continue to search.
Great stuff, Robert.
Thanks for uncovering some new sites.
Woody Trathen
Yeah, you found the Greece Central School District website as well. Good stuff. After searching, I decided to pull all my instructional strategies from that one site.
Hey,
That Greece Central School knew what they were doing. I would like to meet some of them.