INVESTIGATING THINKING STRATEGIES

PEBC

Suzanne

editor

Stevi

Co-author

Who keeps you awake at night?

Self-assess

Mix and Mingle

Annotate the agenda

Basic Literacy

Intermediate

Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy

Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan, Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content AreaLiteracy

The increasing specialization of literacy

development

Thinking

Who are we as thinkers?

What is text?

Choice of text

Poem Chart Article (psychology) Scientific article Multimedia

WHY FEAR? WHAT IS THE ROLE OF FEAR?

•When and how does it serve us well? And when and how does it not serve us well?

Why fear? What is the role of fear?

When and how does it serve us well? And when and how does it not serve us well?

Leave Tracks of Your Thinking

Choice of text

Poem Chart Article (psychology) Scientific article Multimedia

Strategies of Proficient Thinkers

Strategy: intentional plan s that enable readers to make meaning.

Monitor for understanding

Activate, Utilize, Build Background Knowledge

Ask Qu

estion

s

Draw inferences

Aha!

Determine Importance

Create sensory images

Synthesize parts to create a whole

If proficient readers do these things with automaticity …

So Teachers can …

Become aware of how WE use these strategies

(metacognition)

And model

Asking questions

SO NOW LET’S EXPERIENCE THIS AS LEARNERS!