Strategies
Fishbowl Strategy
This blog post comes from the blog "Beyond Traditional Math." The teacher-blogger shows how she uses the Fishbowl strategy (that Cris Tovani models) in her own classroom.
Literacy in Physics: Reading a Primary Source
This video from TeachingChannel gives an excellent example of a content area teacher whose students are using reading strategies during her science lesson.
Making Science Relevant with Current Events
This is another great video from TeachingChannel. Students in this video bring in articles that relate to what they are learning in their class. They must discuss their learning and generate main idea statements.
Making the Declaration of Independence Come Alive
Another wonderful video from TeachingChannel! These students use a graphic organizer in order to understand and annotate the Declaration of Independence.
This blog post comes from the blog "Beyond Traditional Math." The teacher-blogger shows how she uses the Fishbowl strategy (that Cris Tovani models) in her own classroom.
Literacy in Physics: Reading a Primary Source
This video from TeachingChannel gives an excellent example of a content area teacher whose students are using reading strategies during her science lesson.
Making Science Relevant with Current Events
This is another great video from TeachingChannel. Students in this video bring in articles that relate to what they are learning in their class. They must discuss their learning and generate main idea statements.
Making the Declaration of Independence Come Alive
Another wonderful video from TeachingChannel! These students use a graphic organizer in order to understand and annotate the Declaration of Independence.
Lesson Resources
ReadWorks
The ReadWorks site not only has great language arts lessons that can be used in the content area classroom, but it has great leveled passages that content area teachers can use with their students.
Comprehension Constructors
This guide on comprehension constructors was created by Choice Literacy. These comprehension constructors use the same ideas that Cris Tovani mentions in her books and can be printed to use with students.
Tovani Produceables
This professional development facilitator's guide includes some of the tools discussed in Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, as well as some of Cris Tovani's other books.
Instructional Focus Sheet
This sheet, although slightly different from Cris Tovani's, has the same ideas as her Instructional Purposes Sheet for teachers to use when planning instruction.
The ReadWorks site not only has great language arts lessons that can be used in the content area classroom, but it has great leveled passages that content area teachers can use with their students.
Comprehension Constructors
This guide on comprehension constructors was created by Choice Literacy. These comprehension constructors use the same ideas that Cris Tovani mentions in her books and can be printed to use with students.
Tovani Produceables
This professional development facilitator's guide includes some of the tools discussed in Do I Really Have to Teach Reading, as well as some of Cris Tovani's other books.
Instructional Focus Sheet
This sheet, although slightly different from Cris Tovani's, has the same ideas as her Instructional Purposes Sheet for teachers to use when planning instruction.