Before+Reading+Strategies

//**Instructional Activities for Engaging Students Before they Read **//

__**1. Anticipatory Set**__
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__2. Pre-teaching Vocabulary__

 * Strategies**


 * __Technology tools to support vocabulary interaction__**
 * [|Visual Dictionary]
 * [|Visuwords]
 * [|Visual Thesaurus] (fee-based, but very cool)

3. Preteaching text structures
ReadWriteThink.org's Interactive Student Materials Example: [|Compare and Contrast]



Evaluating Web Sites

 * Middle School Lesson Plans**
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Wading Through the Web: Teaching Internet Research Strategies]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Exploring Plagiarism, Copyright, and Paraphrasing]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Students as Creators: Exploring Copyright]
 * ReadWriteThink: [|Students as Creators: Exploring Multimedia]
 * Saskatchewan School District: [|WSYWIG]

Web Research Guide: Evaluating a Web Site (Source: McDougal Littell's [|Class Zone])
 * Student-Centered Activities**
 * [|McDougal Littell's Class Zone Web Research Guide>]
 * [[image:https://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png width="32" height="32" caption="external image pdf.png" link="http://21coaching.wikispaces.com/file/view/evaluating_web_sites_guide-1.pdf"]] [|evaluating_web_sites_guide-1.pdf]


 * Suggested Sites**
 * [|UC Berkeley's Tutorial on Evaluating Websites]
 * [|Evaluation Worksheet from Tutorial]
 * [|Evaluation Checklist]
 * [|Madison, WI Metropolitan School District's Internet Detectives Page]
 * Resources for [|Evaluating] web sites
 * Resources for effective [|Search Strategies]