ReadingQuest | Reading Strategies for Content Areas ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies is a website designed for social studies teachers who wish to more effectively engage their students with the content in their classes. ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of comprehension and content reading strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies. You will be invited to think about how a social studies skills framework might help you choose the right strategies for your lessons. You are welcome to proceed through ReadingQuest in any order you wish; navigation buttons on the left side of the pages, and text links across the bottom of pages, will permit ease of movement through the site. A website for teachers that explores comprehension and content reading strategies and when to use them in social studies. activeareasbackgroundcomprehensioncontentdeclaraknowledgelearningmetacognitionreadingskillssocialstrategiesstudies By pdboyerin Public bookmarkswith comprehensioncontent_readingreadingstrategieswritingby 6 users
ReadWriteThink Web-Making application Flash interactive for making webs of understanding from science textbooks:
Use this interactive to create free-form graphic organizers, similar to the cluster web shown in the picture. You can drag your ideas around in the organizer to arrange any layout and relationship that you want. You can use circle or box (rectangle) shapes to appear on your chart. Each layer on the chart will have a different color border for the shapes that you choose. By pdboyerin Public bookmarkswith graphic_organizerinteractiveiwbliteracynonfictionreadingtextbook