Focus Lessons:
Practicing Understanding
Laura
Benson, 2005
A few ways to help students
understand…
& Teach students what YOU DO as a thinker, learner, reader, writer,
mathematician, historian, artist, scientist…
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Model, name, explain - Create a “show and tell for thinking” with your students.
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Draw from your literacy wells
to develop your think alouds and reveal what you do in your head to create and maintain understanding (wells = the texts on your nightstand
table, desk, computer)
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Teach students “Universal Habits of Understanding.”
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Stop Signing/Stop to Self-Talk
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Warming
Up (surveying text rituals)
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Pardon me?/Push your rewind button (rereading)
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Summing Up
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Scrabble Scholar (problem solving new words/word work skills)
& Teach Students how to interact with texts
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Stick
It!/Sticky notes and flags
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Taking
Note/Key Word Notes/Cornell Notes
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Brain
Stains/Prioritized Highlighting
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Thinking
Ink/Leaving Tracks of Thinking On The Text
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Short
Hand/Coding the Text
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H.O.M. [Holding Onto Meaning]Advanced Organizers
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Thinking Maps (Hyerle; Curtis)
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One-Sentence Summaries/One Word Summaries
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Double-Entry Journaling
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Cumulative Writing
! Teach students why and
how to talk to themselves as they
read/write/learn/listen/do to deepen their understanding and caring.
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Self-Talk
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Student as Teacher
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Book Clubs and Literature Circle Discussions
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Talking Circles
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