MIRA+Session+December+2011


 * MIRA Session #1 December 6th, 2011**

This was our first face-to-face MIRA session for the 2011-12 school year. The main topic covered was: Strategies for Improving Comprehension of Non-fiction Texts. The featured strategies included: Think Aloud, Semantic Features and Problem Situation. MIRA members also shared some of their favorite Math and Science games.

Here is the meeting agenda:

This document is a nice overview of the "Think Aloud" strategy:

This is the "Think Aloud" activity that the MIRA members did:

Here are written descriptions of a variety of strategies for teaching reading in Science. These and more helpful activities are highlighted in the book //Teaching Reading in Science// by Mary Lee Barton and Deborah Jordan (2001). Copies can be obtained from ASCD in Alexandria, VA.