Teacher Debbie Clark (Wilder Elementary, Louisville, Ky.) provides her students with ongoing explicit instruction for using text features. Guiding students to use text features enables them to access content more effectively.
Debbie Clark provides her students with ongoing explicit instruction for using text features. Guiding students to use text features enables them to access content more effectively.
Debbie describes a project in which students independently apply what they’ve learned about identifying and using text features with newspapers and magazines.
This video was originally part of a multimedia professional development resource, Literacy Without Limits, produced by KET in 2007 in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education.
How will using this strategy help your students understand the text? What changes (if any) will you need to make to your current instructional practice in order to utilize the strategy?
What characteristics of highly effective teaching and learning do you observe?
Kentucky Department of Education: Characteristics of Highly Effective Teaching and Learning
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