Introduce myself.

In K-2, we teach to read. In 3-12, we reading to learn. These strategies can help your students access your content and model for them the ways that they can communicate their learning about that content to you.

By the end of our session today, you will will be ableto find the Love Binder's Content Area Reading Strategies page and know how to access material.

This pages is an important resource for you and your students. these pages can help you find ways to scaffold your content so that all students learn.

Have you ever encountered a student who had a problem reading the textbooks for your course? How did you help?
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Knowing some basics provides you with the platform to make choices about content presentation.

A lexile level represents a text's readability level. The higher the lexile, the more difficult the piece is to read.

One way to measure readability is the Frye Graph.

The Frye Readability Formula.

Let's determine the lexile levels of your texts using the Frye Formula.

The Fry Graph Readability Formula

Step 1: Select 3 samples of 100-word passages randomly (eliminate the numbers from word count).

Step 2: Count the number of sentences in all three 100-word passages, estimating the fraction of the last sentence to the nearest 1/10th.

Step 3: Count the number of syllables in all three 100-word passages. Plot your findings on the Frye graph in your group.

Are you surprised?

Did the readability of your text surprise you?

How would you scaffold the text for a student who cannot read at the level required by the book?

DAD's Live Binder Content Area Reading Strategies is the place to start.

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