Content Area Learning Strategies Table of Contents

Proficient Teachers...	Tools Used for Collaborative Group Work	Page
Teach What Good Readers Do	What Proficient Readers Do Chart	1-2
Understand the Failure Cycle	The Failure Cycle	3
Are Efficient in getting students into pairs and small groups.	Think, Pair, Share, (Four) Square	4
	Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up	5
	Give One Get One	6

Proficient Readers...	Tools That Teach the Key Strategies	Page
Are clear about their purpose for reading and review the text before they read.	Reading with a Purpose (House)	9
	Thieves	11
	Feature Story	17
	CATS: Text Organizational Structure Survey	21
Tap their prior knowledge about the subject before their read.	Dump and Clump	24
	KWL and its adaptations	26
	Anticipation Guides	28
Use meta-cognitive strategies (word learning and fix-up strategies) in the process of reading.	Click and Clunk	30
	Think Aloud	31
	Insert Strategy	35
	Good Better Best Understanding	37
	Clarifying Cue Card	39
	Four Square Concept Box (Frayer Model)	41
	I Have... Who has...?	44
Make connections when they read.	Text Connect	46
	LINK Thinking: List, Inquire, Note, Know	48
	Ticket Exchange and The Final Word	50
Determine the most important ideas or themes.	Plus, Minus, and Interesting	51
	The Cornell Note-Taking System	53
	Folder File Folder	54
	Folded Book Mark	55
	Exit Tickets	57
Synthesize as they read.	Get the Gist and Wrap It Up	62
	Consensus Definition	63
	Pie Partners	64
Evoke images while reading.	Open Mind	65
	Picture This: Movie of the Mind	66
Ask questions.	Thick and Thin	68
	QAR	70
	Stretch It	73
	STRAP	74
Make predictions and inferences.	Guess and Adjust	75
	PACA	77
	Tea Party and We Think	78