Chapter 8 - Extending Meaning, After Reading Strategies

This chapter had a lot of strategies that I have already used, and it also contained one that I keep seeing everywhere and still haven't tried! The Likert Scale she lists first in the chapter has been promoted through different reading seminars I have been to and several of my classes here at Kent State. I even had a professor use this scale for us at the end of books we read, and then she really used them in her lessons with us. I have seen them adapted for students with special needs by using pictures or smiley faces. I am very interested in the Retellings strategies as well. This is something that my students would probably not be successful at the first few times we did it. I also think it would have to be paired with a strategy from Chapter 7 in order to make sure they know what they read before I had them do this. I liked the chart given to show how to keep track of the progress the student will make over time. This is a great way to have some concrete progress monitoring in the classroom for IEP's and parent conferences.