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Lesson 5.6: Prompt for Strategy Use

Focus: Understand how to prompt students in the use of reading strategies.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Reading

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  1. Read On Solid Ground (pp. 125-132).
  2. Read Teaching Reading Strategies.
  3. Read Early Strategies.
  4. Read Strategy Prompts.
  5. Read Prompting for Strategy Use Sample and complete the prompt practice activity included.
  6. Read Developing Strategic Readers. Be prepared to talk about what teachers can do to help develop strategic readers who can independently figure out unknown words.

3. Classroom Application

Listen to three or more students read from a “just right” book (or other reading material) and use strategy prompts as needed. Complete the bottom of the Prompting for Strategy Use Sample, and explain how the prompts did or did not help and why. Bring a copy to the Collaboration Group meeting to share with the other participants.

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:

    • Sharing reflection journal entries.
    • Discussing the professional reading and experiences with prompting for strategy use, as well as insights gained.
    • Discussing what educators can do to help develop strategic readers who can independently figure out unknown words. Keeping these ideas in mind, make a list of additional ways educators can help students become strategic readers.
    • Sharing your completed Prompting for Strategy Use sample.

  2. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Email the instructor your completed Prompting for Strategy Use Sample. Label your summary with your name, entity, Lesson 5.6, and the title: A Summary of My Practice With Prompting for Strategy Use. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the document. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file name, for example, moses_strategy_sample.
  2. The recorder emails the instructor a copy of the group’s list of ways educators can help students become strategic readers. The recorder titles this list: Developing Strategic Readers.
  3. The recorder places copies of all the work done by the Collaboration Group in the Collaboration Group Notebook for future reference.
  4. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.