Resource Blog #5

For this week’s resource blog, I found a paper on different strategies to use for reading science content. The paper is called Strategies for Teaching Science Content Reading by Patrick E. Croner. In this paper, he gives about fifteen different strategies that are all useful and easy to apply into the classroom. One of the strategies he talks about is the “Click or Clunk” strategy. 

 This is useful when having to read in the science textbooks and the point of it is get students to ask themselves if the content is “clicking,” meaning they understand what they’re reading, or if they’re “clunking,” meaning they don’t understand. If the student is “clunking” then they need to ask themselves what they aren’t understanding and find a way to help them understand what they’re reading. I liked this strategy because I think that self-monitoring during reading can be really hard to do, so this is something I would like to implement into my future classrooms. 

Here's the link to the paper: https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1058676.pdf 

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