Adolescent Literacy - EDUC 376 Resource Guide

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Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. "Before" strategies activate students' prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading. "During" strategies help students make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and stay focused. "After" strategies provide students an opportunity to summarize, question, reflect, discuss, and respond to text.

An Anticipation Guide is a strategy that is used before reading to activate students' prior knowledge and build curiosity about a new topic.

NCTE lesson plan

Teaching students to "read inferentially" helps them learn how to read more strategically. This technique is derived from the teaching model that learners develop knowledge via the process of interpreting new information in light of past experiences and rethinking past knowledge based on new information.

Background, benefits, creating, and using the strategy.

Story Maps are used for teaching students to work with story structure for better comprehension. This technique uses visual representations to help students organize important elements of a story

YouTube video with an overview of UNRAAVEL.