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Our goal is to improve student reading skills across the content areas.
To your left are templates for some of the S.O.S. Strategies.
You will see the template for a Think-Aloud. You can make this into an overhead and use it to model your thinking as you read, or have students come up and
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model their metacognition. Another use for the Think-Aloud would be to copy it and give it to students to record their thinking/ questions/ comments as they are reading silently. Another template is the K-A-U Pre-Reading Vocabulary strategy. Obviously, you will want to change the words. Just remember to focus on no more than 5-7 key words.
All of the other templates are from the Pre-Reading (before you read a story or selection) actvities for your students: 3 versions of the Anticipation Guide, the K-W-L activities (including the Directed Reading/Thinking Activity), the Word Splash (change the words to whatever suits the unit or chapter you are introducing) and the Previewing Text activity (remember to modify question #4 for your assignment). The Anticipation/Reaction guide works especially well in a classroom where students are writing papers where they have to cite sources. Anticipation Guides are especially fun to use with controversial material
Also, remember these templates serve a double purpose; not only will they help your students assimilate the content, but if you require they be turned in you can use them to assess their learning for a grade, too.
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Don't see the templates? CLICK HERE

Reading Across the Curriculum
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International Reading Association
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ERIC Reading
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Alliance for Excellenct Education
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Other Pertinant Links
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Local Area Schools
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School Web Page
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Navigating Through Math Texts
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LINKS

UMESD

Assessment and Testing

SOESD

SOESD Trainer Info

Willamette ESD - SOS

Oregon ASCD

ODE

O.P.E.N.

O.P.E.N. Resource Page

Content Standards

Oregon Reading Performance Standards

Oregon Authors Project, a Reading Assessment Resource

Oregon Reading Initiative

Reading is FUNdamental

Nat'l Council of Teachers of English

Teaching Reading through Social Studies
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