After Reading Strategies

Outside establishing a purpose for reading and reviewing discussion questions, these strategies can help increase student understanding and engagement.

Summarize the text in your own words (outline, concept map)

Main Idea with Details

• After students have completed their Annotations (Questions, Comments and Vocabulary), their next step is to locate the Main Idea with Details.  It is likely they have already found the Main Idea (usually the topic sentence of a paragraph) because they have (most likely) asked a question or made a comment about it.  It is also highly probable that their annotations have asked questions or made comments; therefore becoming the details.  Use this chart as a thinking placeholder for their annotations.

  • Main Ideas with Details

Using the 5Ws and H to Find Information and Write a Summary

• Using the 5Ws and H to Find Information and Write a Summary

• Using the 5Ws and H to Write a Summary based on a short story

Reflective Feedback

Reflective Feedback gives our students an opportunity to reflect on what they know and a chance for us to revise or modify our instruction. Use these examples as ways to get to know what your students know and what you need to do to support their learning.

• Whats the 411

• One Pager Sentence Starter

• A Time for Reflection