Content+Literacy+Strategies

=Please view the featured Social Studies Content Reading Passage by following this link to [|socialstudiesforkids.com] or read the pdf below.= ==

Before providing the content reading passage to students, require completion of this

**[|Pre-Assessment Quiz]**
created at Google Docs

=Comprehension Strategies:=

**Application Journal Entry**
Example of
 * Student will complete the [[file:Application Journal Entry.pdf]] after reading the passage.

**Timeline**
Example of
 * Student will create a [|timeline] of at least five important events discussed in the passage.
 * Student will choose a date from the timeline and create a [|commemorative postage stamp] or a [|motivational poster] at the provided links for [|BigHugeLabs].

Example of postage stamp and motivational poster:

=Vocabulary Strategies:=

**Knowledge Rating Scale**
Example of
 * Student will complete a [[file:KnowledgeRatingScale.wps]] of preselected terms prior to reading the content area passage.

**Frayer Model Diagram**
Example of
 * Student will work with a partner to complete a [[file:Frayer Model Diagram.pdf]]. Online dictionaries, textbooks, and other reference sources may be used to define the concept. Each group will complete the diagram highlighting a different concept (i.e. civil rights, boycott, determination) discussed in the content reading passage.

After students accomplish assigned tasks, require completion of the

**[|Post-Assessment Quiz]**
created at Google Docs.

Supplemental Activities:

 * In the content reading passage, the "I Have a Dream" speech is referenced. Follow [|this link] to the American Rhetoric website to hear the speech and see the text transcribed from the audio. After listening to the speech, a poem may be composed by accessing the Read.Write.Think website's [|Found Poem Word Mover].


 * The YouTube video below is a reading of the book //Martin's Big Words// by Doreen Rappaport. A vocabulary and comprehension [|video quiz] from ProProfs Quiz Maker may be completed after listening to the book.

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