This strategy is
called Nonfiction Readers Stop and Jot. With this strategy, students stop
reading periodically and jot down new information, questions, and/or unknown
words. Writing about nonfiction will help students remember information and
ideas as they read.
Some prompts that you can use with students
to help them as they utilize this strategy are:
·
After reading that section, are you thinking anything?
·
What do you think you can jot that will help you hold
on to the information?
·
Let’s stop and jot.
·
Show me what you’ll write after that part.
·
I noticed you thought about what you help you when you
stopped to jot that.
Remember, it will take lots of modeling and
practice before students will internalize these strategies.
It might be beneficial to work with EL students in a small group or
your students who are on grade level with support before or after a whole group
lesson or demonstration. Meeting with
them prior to the lesson will give them an edge on understanding what you’re
demonstrating; meeting after the lesson will give them time to discuss and
process more thoroughly. This could be
done during your small group instruction time.
Provide graphic
organizers to help students discuss and record information as they read.
“Students at any grade level often need support in the form of
strategies. One study found that
although readers are sometimes able to automatically determine the main idea,
expert readers often need to think through a process and apply strategies in
order to construct a main idea” (Afflerbach 1990).
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