Pre-reading strategies get banished to the detention room of bad practices…
Last spring, a number of pieces appeared about David Coleman (Common Core’s co-author), telling us to stop teaching pre-reading strategies. When I asked folks attending Common Core trainings at my district, they had no idea what I was talking about. Clearly, the message has gotten out to the consultant/trainer class over the summer. Here were a couple slide from a recent meeting:
Text-based Questions and Answers:
Text-based Questions and Answers:
- Questions that can only be answered with evidence from the text.
- Can be literal, but should also include analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
- Focus on making meaning at the word, sentence, and paragraph level as well