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**Getting Their Attention and Activating or Developing Prior Knowledge**
For today's class, you'll be exploring the resources below in your discipline. Divide up the websites with your partner(s), note ideas for how you might use each resource to inspire student interest in your topic of study while activating (or developing) prior knowledge before tackling the texts you will read in your unit. Use the graphic organizer on your handout to decide how you might use the information at these websites to (a) activate; (b) assess; and/or (c) develop prior knowledge about your discipline to "get students ready" to learn the new information from your lesson by connecting it to old information.


 * READING ALOUD TO SECONDARY STUDENTS**
 * [|Reading Aloud to Teens Gains Favor Among Teachers] (Education Week, Jan. 4, 2010) - includes comments from the general public and a link to the [|English Companion Ning] with comments from 300 teachers about Why We Read Aloud


 * RELATED RESOURCES**
 * [|PBS and Frontline: Growing Up Online] (aired Jan. 22, 2008)
 * [|PBS and Frontline: Digital Nation and Life on the Final Frontier](aired Feb. 2, 2010)
 * Milton Chen from Edutopia features the Digital General Project: [|Multimedia Portraits of Digital Youth and Implications for Schools and Learning]
 * Related Resources on Motivation: [|Education Week's Motivation Matters]
 * [|What Makes A 21st Century Education?] A series of videos from inspirational educators and researchers, sponsored by the Mobile Learning Institute.
 * [|How about connecting your curriculum to issues of Homeland Security]?
 * After class, you may also enjoy exploring additional online resources available from the website that accompanies the book [|Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times (Leu, Leu, & Coiro, 2004)]. Chapters 5-11 focus on particular disciplines including English/Language Arts (Ch. 5), Social Studies (Ch. 6), Science (Ch. 7), Math (Ch. 8), Younger Children (Ch. 9), Multicultural Understanding (Ch. 10), Students with Special Needs (Ch. 11). Caution: Since the book was published in 2004, many of the links have changed. We are in the process of writing the 5th edition of the book.
 * Or you may enjoy exploring the resources Julie Coiro shared at the 2008 International Reading Association Conference: //[|Content Area Learning Comes to Life! Using Interactive Online Texts to Inspire Adolescent's Active Engagement with Content Area Reading and Writing]//
 * [|Trailfire Video:]Potentials for High School Students Reading and Responding to Literature
 * Education Weeks' Jan 2010 article about [|Focus on Instruction Turns Around Chicago Schools] with program called "Focused Instruction Process" (FIP) that's aimed at boosting achievement by promoting teachers' professional development, parental engagement, constant improvement and shared leadership. Developed by the nonprofit Strategic Learning Initiatives, the flexible program has teachers providing more focused lessons and reteaching when regular assessments show that students are struggling to master skills
 * Finally, an interesting way to combine the format of anticipation guides with pre, during, and post reading activities in ways that link to prior knowledge supports at each phase of reading can viewed at the [|Electronic Anticipation Guide for My Side of the Mountain]
 * Reading Textbooks
 * Tips for Reading Math Textbooks: [|How to read a math textbook] and [|Reading a Mathematics Book] and [|How to Read a Math Book (including word problems]) and [|Math Study Skills]and [|Promoting Reading Strategies for Developmental Math Texts>>]
 * **Booklists to explore**:
 * [|The Horn Book] - content area trade books for young adults
 * [|Literacy in the Content Areas] (downloadable pdf) - picture books that address classroom subjects in middle and high school
 * [|G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet book] (preview table of contents and pages online)