Educating America materials provide quick and easy ideas! I’ve written three materials in support of classrooms and volunteers. They include the award-winning Educating America: 101 Strategies for Adults in K-8 Classrooms, a desktop flipbook and a workbook. Take a look inside each when you visit www.paddyeger. com and select the Educating America portion of the website.
Paddy Eger
Educating America News on Schools A Newsletter Supporting k-8 Classroom Volunteerism
Educating America 101 Strategies
for Adult Assistants in k-8 Classrooms
ISBN: 978-0-9831587-5-2
Educating America
Desktop Flipbook ISBN: 978-0-9858933-1-6
Winter, 2016
Volume 15:2
Educating America
This quarter’s newsletter is focused on Study Skills related to Reading and Remembering Non Fiction. These skills are valuable for a lifetime. What teachers introduce can be reinforced at home through use of the checklist and by adult family members sharing what they use as they read a variety of materials.
Getting Started ISBN: 978-0-9858933-6-1
The book and flip book are available from your favorite bookstores, Tendril Press, and online sources for ebooks. At this time, the workbook is only available through my website www.paddyeger.com or by contacting me directly at 425-420-5161.
Welcome
My goal is to promote classroom involvement. If you are connected with a school that is interested in training or presentations, please contact me. I’d love to share my ideas and materials with you as we build strong home-school-home connections.
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Looking for additional ideas and projects? Check out my materials online as seen on www.TeachersPayTeachers.com and on www.TeachersNotebook.com Both resources also provide parent ideas as well as information for educators.
Quotes to Ponder
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About Me
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Non-Fiction Reading & Remembering Checklist
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Resources
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One Way to Look at It
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Final Notes
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Quotes to Ponder Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day oute. ~ Robert Collier
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Study Skills: Reading and Remembering Non Fiction While non fiction may entertain the reader, it’s main purposes are to inform, persuade, clarify, and interpret ideas. This requires close attention to details presented on each and every page. Non fiction reading is often intense. Therefore it’s often best to begin at the end; read the section or chapter summary and questions FIRST to help focus your reading. Take the time to predict what you will know after reading the information. Next, read through the material, taking time to stop and read the textual and visual features on each page. The book, Express Writers: A Handbook for Young Writers, Thinkers and Learners, suggests 7 note taking strategies to help students retain information. They include: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
Write down key words. Stop and write down the idea to remember as you read. “Nutshell” - write the most important ideas in a concise paragraph. Write questions to submit to the teachers about ideas that confuse you. Write a letter to anyone explaining what you just read. Create a graphic organizer to compile pertinent information. Draw pertinent-to-you pictures to remind yourself of what you read.
Text and visual features help readers use and understand what they read by providing clues to locate information and get the most out of what is read. (See the checklist on page 2). You will find a full-sized checklist available on the Educating America portion of my website www.paddyeger.com.
To be successful you must accept all challenges that come your way. You can’t just Now comes the biggest challenge: rereading. It’s important to reread/review the accept the ones you like. summary and the questions as well as the entire section or chapter a second time. ~ Mike Gafka Take more notes. Write down questions that are relevant to the information 1 being read.
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