Strategies

I'll catalog the strategies I've been using with them here... and why - working towards their own use of the strategies independently over time

Unit 1 - Stress

• QICS - process the reading and discussion
  
• VIP/MVP-> summary writing
  
• Text Guide - reading guide of what to look for (definitions, examples, important people, explanations)
  
• Graphic Organizer - visual representation of the parts of a concept
  
• Language Starters - "What does the author mean by...?" "The author states on page 123 that... it makes me think of..." "Stess is defined as..." An example of the presences of stress could be..." - hedges...
  
• Building background knowledge - using simpler readings (websites) before the academic reading
• CLOZE exercise - to highlight text structure, providing a source, and general to specific structure of academic texts
• Stop-Look-Reflect - Blog it!! - Stop to gather strategies and reflect on the 4W's and an H - put it in the blog...