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Boosting Classroom Engagement with Text Sets

June 26, 2024 Jessica Rogers

Boosting Classroom Engagement with Text Sets

Using text sets in the classroom can significantly enhance student interest, vocabulary, and background knowledge. Text sets are collections of related texts organized around a specific topic or line of inquiry. Here’s how to effectively implement them in your teaching strategy: 1. Anchor Text Begin with a rich, complex grade-level text as the anchor. This […]

Filed Under: Blog, Language Comprehension, Lesson Planning, Schema, Science of Reading, Teaching Structures, Vocabulary

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

Critical Analysis of a Poem in Middle School

March 26, 2020 Jessica Rogers

Most middle school students are not thrilled to learn that they will be analyzing one poem over three days.

Filed Under: Accountability, Blog, Critical Thinking, Figurative Language, Making Connections, metacognition, Poetry, Schema, Tone and Mood, Visualization

Activate Schema and Engage Students with an Anticipation Reaction Guide

October 23, 2019 Jessica Rogers

have students do an anticipation reaction guide to activate schema

Why? While activating background knowledge might not be one of the “Super 6” comprehension strategies, I would argue that this is where every reader should start. As a reader, when I pick up a new text, I question what it is going to be about and what I already know about the subject. Sometimes, I might […]

Filed Under: Blog, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies, Schema

Readers’ Workshop: Activate Schema with Movie Clips

November 16, 2017 Jessica Rogers

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** Contact me if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** Over the past five years or so, there has been a big emphasis on using media in the classroom.  If you scour Pinterest for ideas on making inferences, you will find tons of pictures […]

Filed Under: Blog, Critical Thinking, Making Connections, Readers' Workshop, Reading Strategies, Schema, Technology, Theme

Teaching Poetry and Reading Strategies: A Poison Tree, by William Blake

April 9, 2017 Jessica Rogers

** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** I’ll admit it, I have a dark side.  Those who know me say it’s deeply hidden behind nervous giggles and an approachable demeanor, but I’m drawn to dark literature.  “A Poison Tree,” by William […]

Filed Under: Blog, Characterization, Critical Thinking, Figurative Language, Making Connections, Poetry, Reading Strategies, Schema, Tone and Mood, Writers' Workshop

Teaching Poetry and Reading Strategies: Harlem, by Langston Hughes

April 2, 2017 Jessica Rogers

** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to bring an engaging, hands-on poetry session to your campus ** I have three poems that I absolutely love introducing to students.  One of those poems is Harlem by Langston Hughes.  I love it because it is fun to read out loud and the students […]

Filed Under: Blog, Descriptive Writing, Making Connections, Poetry, Reading Strategies, Schema, Social Studies, Visualization, Writers' Workshop

Success with Explicit Instruction

August 25, 2016 Jessica Rogers

** Contact us if you would like Rogers Education Consulting to come to your campus with engaging, evidence-based, and practical professional development ** So many times in education we, as teachers, are bombarded with buzz words.  These words will eventually become white noise, words you expect to hear in an academic setting, but you no longer […]

Filed Under: Blog, Making inferences and predicting, Reading Strategies, Schema, Teacher Qualities

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