KWL+Chart

What do you know about teaching reading?**
 * **K

- Teaching before, during, and after reading strategies is crucial for understanding.

- Accessing or providing background knowledge is also essential for comprehension.

- Accessing background knowledge helps create curiosity about a text, and stirs interest. || **W What do you want to learn about teaching reading?**

- What are some methods for assisting students with limited background knowledge?

- What reading strategies am I neglecting in my classroom?

- What reading strategies work well for students who truly struggle with reading comprehension? || **L What did you learn about the teaching of reading?**

- Think Alouds need to be practiced by //students// reading texts aloud as well as by //teachers// reading texts aloud so the kids are able to think critically about the strategies used by skilled readers during the reading process.

- Study Questions can actually seem useful to students (and not like busy-work) when they are planned carefully and provided in sequence.

- Reading for patterns helps students create a picture of a text, the shape and architecture of a text. ||