1. Strategy
1.1. Ask Questions
1.2. Clarify Confusion
1.3. Connect to New
1.4. What is Important
1.4.1. A Bag of Strategies
1.4.1.1. And know how to use them!
1.4.2. Get a better understanding of text, self, world.
1.4.3. What we use to turn unformation into knowledge.
2. Thinking
2.1. Agency
2.1.1. I think, therefore I am.
2.2. Information
2.2.1. Little purpose if not synthesized and applied. (Use it or lose it.)
2.2.2. Apply thought to acquire knowledge.
3. 5 Comprehension Practices
3.1. Literal Questions
3.1.1. Short term recall
3.2. Retelling
3.2.1. Thought organization
3.3. Merge Thinking with Content
3.3.1. Where UNDERSTANDING begins!
3.3.2. Connect, question, infer, visualize, importance and synthesize.
3.4. Acquiring Knowledge
3.4.1. Make sense of content, insight.
3.5. Actively Using Knowledge
3.5.1. Integrate knowledge and ACTIVELY apply to experience, situations, circumstances of daily life.
3.6. QUESTIONS
3.6.1. Comprehension Continuum
3.6.1.1. What happened?
3.6.1.2. What do you think?
3.6.1.3. What makes you think that?
3.6.1.4. Why does it matter?
3.6.1.5. Why do you care?
3.6.1.6. What are you going to do about it?
4. Awareness
4.1. Inner Voice
4.2. Think Aloud
4.3. We ALL Derail
4.4. STOP, refocus, get back on track!
5. Teacher
5.1. Engaging Texts
5.2. Foster Thoughtful Conversations
5.3. Model
5.4. Share Ideas
6. Student
6.1. Turn what they hear, see, read and say into knowledge.
6.2. Integrate and flexibly use reading and thinking across the curriculum.
7. 4 Teacher Practices
7.1. Background Knowledge
7.1.1. Build on what already exists.
7.2. Repertoire of Strategies
7.2.1. Many in the toolbox.
7.3. Scaffold Collaborative Discussions
7.3.1. Common language of thinking.
7.3.2. Ask questions that let them know THEIR THINKING MATTERS!
7.3.3. Spring board to independent thinking.
7.4. Intergrate
7.4.1. For use across ALL curriculums.