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From the ORC Collection
More Resources on Active Literacy and Informational Text
Here are some resources from the ORC collection related to this month's theme, Active
Literacy and Informational Text. This month we have divided the resources into three
groups. The first focuses on lessons that require students to use critical literacy
skills to evaluate information. The second group contains content resources that
include strategies and graphic organizers to help students read actively to comprehend
texts. And the third group features professional articles filled with ideas for
improving students' ability to access informational texts and deepen their content
knowledge.
Instructional Resources
Identifying and Understanding the Fallacies Used in Advertising Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson alerts students to the fallacies that surround them every day. The fallacies used in advertising are often overlooked without the tools needed to examine them critically....
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading, Social Studies Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This resource provides a detailed lesson focused on using eyewitness accounts, representing a range of different perspectives, to write reliable accounts of historical events. Students begin by examining alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871....
Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–8 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides a web-based experience in which students evaluate the credibilty of online sources. Working in pairs, students apply a series of questions to determine the quality of sources of information they find online....
Is the Internet a Web of Deceit?: Evaluating the Credibility of Information on the Internet Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Using the Internet for research requires students to be critical thinkers and consumers. This lesson provides guided opportunities for evaluating various elements of a web site to determine its credibility....
Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization With Fishbone Mapping Resource Type: Lessons Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 4–7 Professional Commentary: What's important and what's not? Students work in pairs and cooperative groups to explore this question by completing fishbone maps that highlight the main ideas and relevant details from a cause-effect text....
Writing Guides: Critical Reading Resource Type: Content Supports Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource provides information for college level critical reading, using a constructivist model. The pages include an introduction to how readers read, strategies for reading more critically (previewing, annotating, summarizing, analyzing, re-reading, and responding), and reading-for-meaning worksheets....
Content Resources
Resource Type: Content Supports Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This one-page handout outlines, in sequential order, nine steps for students to use when pre-reading a textbook or article. The handout, from Jim Burke's web site, is split into two vertical sections....
Reading Strategies: Scaffolding Students' Interactions with Texts Resource Type: Content Supports Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: "Reading Strategies," a site linked from the English language arts home page of the Greece Central School District, provides teachers with an extensive list of reading strategies which can be used by students to promote their comprehension and understanding. The reading strategies themselves-- RAFT, Reciprocal Teaching, QAR, Think Aloud, and Writer's Craft Seminar, to name but...
Professional Resources
Fostering Comprehension in Content-Area Reading Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The November/December 2006 issue of "Adolescent Literacy In Perspective" focuses on "Using Textbooks More Effectively" and features Ohio educator Jeffery L. Williams' look at an important reading concern: "Fostering Comprehension in Content-Area Reading." Understanding the frustration of having to teach students who cannot read well coupled with the reality of having to use resources that are...
Student-Tested Suggestions for Using Textbooks More Effectively Resource Type: Professional Resources Discipline: Reading Grades: Grades 7–12 Professional Commentary: "Student-Tested Suggestions for Using Textbooks More Effectively," a classroom vignette published in the November/December 2006 issue of "Adolescent Literacy In Perspective," highlights a few quick pre-, during-, and post-reading strategies that teachers can use with their students. Written by two high school teachers who understand and are used to hearing the litany of complaints that accompany...
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