Carl Davis's List: Science Log 1

• all teachers must be, to some degree, reading teachers.
• . Reading strategies are really thinking strategies
• metacognition is thinking about thinking
• Reflecting on one's thoughts
• by modeling this process and by having students read short passages and refl
• Teachers can encourage
• Schema
• Also known as background knowledge
• information
• experiences,
• thoughts that a reader brings to a text
• Inferring
• use personal knowledge to construct meaning beyond what is literally stated
• Questioning
• Teachers might have students browse text and pose questions prior to reading
• Determing importance involves distinguishing between what information is most  important versus what is interesting but not necessary for understanding
• Visualizing means that students create images based on what they read
• Making connections means that a student has engaged with a text and is able to  relate it to a broader context
• Synthesizing
• synthesizing is simply an understanding of how knowledge grows and changes over  time
• Teachers can help students synthesize by using graphic organizers

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