INFORMATIONAL TEXT
TEACHER HOT TIPS
Secondary Content Area Readers
1. Plan lessons that utilize reading strategies. If your students will be reading from a textbook or other
selection during class, you can plan to use strategies that will help them comprehend the material. Planning
for reading means thinking about what students should do before, during, and after reading.
Informational Text
Before Reading
Set a Purpose
Preview the Text Captions
Plan How to Organize Your
Understanding
During Reading
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Read with Purpose
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Make Connections
After Reading
• Pause and Reflect
• Re-Read for Purpose
• Remember and Organize
Before Reading Strategy
During Reading Strategy
After Reading Strategy
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Anticipation Guide
Brainstorming
Concept Mapping
Give One, Get One
KWL
*Survival Words – Voc
*VOC – Voc
Text Features (Read Around
Text)
9. Focus Questions
10. *Quick Draw Graphic –
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*District Focus:
Voc = Vocabulary
DC = Drawing Conclusions
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Concept Mapping
*Frayer Model – Voc
GIST
Interactive CLOZE
Jigsaw
KWL
Pair Share
PLAN
Semantic Feature Analysis
*Two-Column Notes – DC
*Vocabulary Building –
Voc
“Say Something” Strategy
Text Features (Read
Around Text)
RAP
Framing
“Punctuation” Strategy
Partners Read
Text Rendering
*District Focus:
Voc = Vocabulary
DC = Drawing Conclusions
1. Anticipation Guide
2. Concept Mapping
3. Focused Free Write
4. *Frayer Model – Voc
5. Group Summarizing
6. KWL
7. PLAN
8. ReQuest
9. Semantic Feature Analysis
10. *VOC – Voc
11. *Vocabulary Building – Voc
12. Word Sort – Voc
13. Text Features (Read
Around Text)Framing
14. *Most Important Word – DC
15. Partners Read
16. RAFT
17. *Quick Draw Graphic –
DC
18. *Cause and Effect
Graphic – DC
*District Focus:
Voc = Vocabulary
DC = Drawing Conclusions
Model and demonstrate strategies that will assist students with their reading difficulties. There are a variety of
strategies to choose from, depending on the needs of your students. In order to effectively model a strategy, you
should
• Review why the strategy is important.
• Review the steps that students should follow.
• Walk through the steps of the strategy with your students.
• Model the strategy using a “think aloud” approach. This involves sharing your
thinking processes as you’re applying the strategy. You can do this by:
a. Making predictions out-loud.
b. Describing pictures that are forming in your mind.
c. Linking new information to prior knowledge.
d. Verbalizing confusing ideas.
• Give your students multiple opportunities to apply the strategy before,
during, and/or after with many different types of reading materials.