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	Resources for Teachers Teachers in middle and high school classrooms around the U.S. are finding many ways to support students becoming more active readers through a Reading Apprenticeship approach to teaching content area classes. Check out lesson ideas in any of the areas below, add your own expertise, and let us know what works for you! If you have a lesson that you would like SLI to consider adding to this web site, please download and complete this template, and email it as an attachment to Jana Bouc, SLI Coordinator: jbouc@wested.org. Reading Across the Curriculum Reading Process Analysis    Reading Process Analysis helps readers become aware of the demands of different texts and the strategies that they use to meet those demands in their efforts to make meaning as they read. By sharing reflections on their own reading processes in a group, readers learn from each other’s processes and appropriate new strategies. Making Thinking Visible with Animal Creations    Students make animal creations out of Play-Doh while thinking aloud about the process. This activity provides an introduction to Think-Aloud and the metacognitive conversation through a non-academic, non-threatening activity. Reading in English This is About...    Often we read texts (articles, reports, novels poems, etc.) that contain many different ideas and pieces of information in them. There are also often different layers of ideas in what we read. This strategy will help you first, get as many ideas out of a text as you can and second, make some decisions about which are ideas are most important to the author and interesting to you. Reading in Science Classrooms Extensive Reading in Science These extensive reading projects for the science classroom are also adaptable to other disciplines. Included are downloadable documents for a non-fiction project that produces a children’s book, a scientist’s biography project with historic vignette, a fiction book project with classroom book clubs, and a current events report format that includes a rubric. K-12 Science Ed. Resources    This site contains links to listserves where teachers share lessons and discuss the teaching of science, as well as links to lesson plans and research. Creating a Twenty-five Word Abstract    This activity was developed by Tim Tindol, a science teacher who wanted his students to use summarizing to better access the classroom texts. He also wanted his students to understand the concept of an abstract, a formal structured summary, as used in academic research papers. Although this activity was developed in science, it can apply to any content area. Reading in Math Classrooms Teachers' Curriculum Institute    Teachers' Curriculum Institute publishes a series of history curricula, but their publications on Interactive Notebooks are among the best in the business, and have great potential adaptations for math and science. Guess and Check    "Guess and Check" is a phrase that will be familiar to many students from math. Guess and Check is a simple way of reminding students to check their predictions, to look in the text for evidence to support their predictions and to check this evidence against their own background knowledge. This classroom application has proven to be especially effective in many ESL, resource and middle school classrooms. Math Solutions Online    Marilyn Burns has done a great deal of work using the writing process in mathematics classrooms. Much of her work is based on metacognition. The newsletter is full of teaching ideas. Her published books are great resources for supplementary inquiry based lessons and problems of the week. Reading in History Classrooms A Metacognitive Double-Entry Journal    Teachers often assign double-entry journal writing to accompany course readings. Often, the focus of these "Quotes and Notes" or "Dialectical Response" journals is the content of the reading and students’ affective or personal responses to it. The Metacognitive Double-Entry Journal is a twist on this familiar practice. Reading in General Classrooms EdGate    Edgate runs this site with resources in all subjects for teachers, parents and students. The teacher site includes research links, lessons based on standards developed and posted by teachers, an SAT question of the day, and ideas for incorporating current events. Homework assignments can be posted to the student site. Women-Related Web Sites in Science/Technology    Links to sites about women in math and science. Girls rock! Project MATHEMATICS!    A site with creative, inquiry based multimedia and interactive lessons to purchase. Units are based on various mathematical topics such as the Pythagorean Theorem. Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley    A great Bay Area resource with national publications in highly prized interactive math and science curricula. A small bookstore with an incredible wealth of great math and science books and resources such as games and demonstrations. The American Historical Association (AHA)    The Historians Committee for Open Debate is an organization of leading historians around the world engaged in activities to promote historical knowledge and understanding in contemporary public discourse. The Committee began as an ad hoc group of historians and scholars organized in January 1995 to address concerns over the character of public discourse surrounding the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's exhibit on the Enola Gay and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As a standing organization, the Committee seeks to promote historical knowledge and foster collaboration between historians on an ad hoc basis on a broad range of contemporary issues and debates. Home   |   About   |   Services   |   Research   |   Resources Privacy Policy | Disclaimer | This site and its contents copyright WestEd 1995-2008. All rights reserved.