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Activate Prior Learning with a RAN Chart

February 14, 2022 Jessica Rogers

activate prior knowledge with reading and analyzing nonfiction

What is a RAN chart? For me, the RAN chart is the answer to “But the KWL chart doesn’t work in my class!” RAN stands for Reading and Analyzing Nonfiction (credit: Tony Stead). I have always struggled with the KWL chart for a few reasons. I like the concept, but when I asked the students […]

Filed Under: Blog, metacognition, Nonfiction, Research, Schema

Teaching and Loving Folktales, Fables, and Legends

August 31, 2017 Jessica Rogers

Teach students to use morphemes to read multisyllabic words fluently

** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** I started off this year with teaching folktales, fables, and legends.  Eventually, we will get into myths and fairy tales, but not quite yet.  Every time it’s time to teach this traditional literature, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Characterization, Critical Thinking, Genres, Independent Reading, Making inferences and predicting, Plot, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies, Traditional Literature

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