postreading

3. Post-reading Strategies:

Story or Chapter Mapping
A visual outline to help students understand, recall, and connect key terms and ideas from a text. Story maps can be made individually or by the class as a whole

RAGS
Read Around Groups - This is an activity designed to give students an opportunity to think, discuss, and write about topics related to what they have read. Students participate in a short writing activity after reading a selected text. They then develop criteria, code their work, read each other's comments in cooperative groups, and vote on papers that best meet the preselected criteria.

Literature Response Groups/Journals
This activity allows students to explore each other's interpretations of text and to share their own opinions, feelings, and confusions about a selected reading. They work in small cooperative groups to read silently and to clarify meaning together. They may also freewrite and share their writings with one another.

Source: TEACH Session 3
Study Guide Section 3-Literacy Devlopment
Florida Department of Education & Josten's Learning
Other Sources: Peregoy & Boyle (1997) Reading, Writing, and Learning in ESL


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Story or Chapter Mapping A visual outline to help students understand, recall, and connect key terms and ideas from a text. Story maps can be made individually or by the class as a whole
RAGS Read Around Groups - This is an activity designed to give students an opportunity to think, discuss, and write about topics related to what they have read. Students participate in a short writing activity after reading a selected text. They then develop criteria, code their work, read each other's comments in cooperative groups, and vote on papers that best meet the preselected criteria.
Literature Response Groups/Journals This activity allows students to explore each other's interpretations of text and to share their own opinions, feelings, and confusions about a selected reading. They work in small cooperative groups to read silently and to clarify meaning together. They may also freewrite and share their writings with one another.