Strategy 5
Your Name: Erin Mcintosh
Name of Strategy: PLAN: Predict/Locate/Add/Note
Source: Somers Central School District
Link: http://www.somers.k12.ny.us/intranet/reading/PLAN.html
Description: This is a strategy that students can use before, during, and after reading. Students make thinking maps or flow charts for each section of the notes. In the Predict section, students pre-read and predict the content and structure of the text using major headings and subheadings. In the Locate section, they assess their prior knowledge. They locate known and unknown information to help them decide how closely they need to read particular sections. In the Add section, students use comprehension skills by explaining new concepts and confirming and extending known concepts. In the final Note section, students use the information to organize and summarize.
SCOS: Family and Consumer Science for me but could be used in any curriculum.
Why will this work and how will it help students to learn?
Again in this strategy students have to take responsibility of their own learning. They also have to organize their information in a way that will help them summarize and learn new information. Students will follow a definite structure and will be able to reproduce organized information. This strategy would be helpful to students who are making the transition from “learning to read” to “reading for information.”
Erin…that’s a great strategy.
Posted 1 year, 5 months agoMr. Lilly also has a “predicting” type of strategy listed on his site…check it out when you can.
…Chris.
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I love thinking maps and I think students do too, especially when they can use colored markers and stickers to jazz them up and make they more “theirs.” Prediction helps get students engaged from the onset. I use a poetry organizer that has students predict the meaning of the poem by reading the title. The responses are usually funny too, which makes the exercise more fun. Roberta Wilson
Posted 1 year, 5 months agoThis should work for you. Hope you try it.
Woody Trathen
Posted 1 year, 5 months agoYou know how it always take just the right wording to make you think about something- you said it in your post when discussing the locate part of the PLAN. You said that locating known and unknown information allows the student to decide how closely they need to read a section. Too often, students will start at the beginning of the text and are falling asleep before they ever reach the second paragraph. Not that I am advocating skipping text, but there are times when re-reading something that you have read 15 times will just make you fall asleep. With all of the other challenges that students face, being bored should not be added to the list. I think that teachers should be careful with what they require their students to read. They may not need it.
Mandy Jennings
Posted 1 year, 5 months ago