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Question answer strategy (QAR) teaches students how and when to use their texts when answering comprehension questions. Collaboration, specifically co-teaching, has been shown to be effective with special education teachers and content-area teachers in the general education classroom. The QAR strategy can enhance comprehension across different content areas.
Fenty, N.S., McDuffie-Landrum, K., and Fisher, G. (2012). Using collaboration, co- teaching, and question answer relationships to enhance content area literacy. Teaching Exceptional Children 44(6), pp. 28-37.
QAR is taught through five elements of effective instruction: anticipatory set, modeling, guided practice, independent practice, and closure (Duke & Pearson, 2002, and Fisher & Frey, 2007, cited in Fenty et al., 2012).
Although word walls have been used traditionally in primary classrooms, the authors report effective use in the middle school. Over the course of year, a word wall was built by teachers and students in eighth that included vocabulary across content areas.
Yates, P.H., Cuthrell, K., Rose, M. (2011). Out of the room and into the hall: Making content word walls work. Clearing House 84(1), pp. 31-36.
The multi-content word wall could be built for any grade level, or multiple grade levels. Team members should meet initially to agree on procedures and guidelines for implementing and maintaining the wall.
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR) is a multi-strategy approach for teaching strategies for reading comprehension. CSR can also be effective when used with adolescent English language learners (ELLs) with learning disabilities. ELLs typically struggle when moving from the primary classroom, where the focus shifts from "learning to read" to "reading to learn;" text becomes increasingly complex.
Klingner, J.K., Boardman, A.G., Eppolito, A.M., Schonewise, E.A. (2012). Supporting adolescent English language learners' reading...
Teaching Reading in the Content Areas Reading of content area is observed to provide some gratifying instances and also capable of creating critical circumstances. Due emphasis is being laid on reading in the sphere of evaluation of the developed contents at state and federal levels. The teachers seem to come across varied theories and instructional approaches while attempting to include the content area matters in their teachings. All the numerous approaches
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They can then use this information when not in a group setting and apply it to other courses or experiences in life where they are charged with the task of comprehending reading materials. Pearson, David. (2002) Handbook of reading research Vol 1. Westport: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. The authors created this book as a reference trade book that provides educators with information on the history of reading as well as information on reading
There is also the question of what approach should be used in a given setting. For instance, Lewis-Moreno points out that, "A great deal of energy is expended selecting and defending the model used: Should it be late- or early-exit bilingual, dual language, or English immersion?" (2007, p. 773). Although complex problems require complex solutions, a common theme that runs through the relevant literature concerns the need to use
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Literacy Experience CE310 Children's Literacy Comprehensive Early Literacy Experience Teachers and educators are constantly faced with the need to make instructional decisions depending on their knowledge of every learner. The process entails consideration of every learner's entry point into a certain instructional experience, evaluation of the learner's experience, and constantly changing the instruction to enhance the learner's achievement. This has led to the development of different instructional measures in attempts to enhance
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