Literacy Lifesaver

Plan for close reading lessons with this sequential planning guide for pre-reading and post-reading activities. Designed for middle and high school ELA/English teachers, it includes steps and strategies to ensure robust reading of a text. Students learn key skills such as identifying, explaining, analysing and evaluating at high school level.
 
There are references to pages from the Effective Literacy Strategies book for Years 9-13 (Grades 8-12).  I strongly recommend you download it - regardless of your subject area or country (it's FREE).  It's available here and it's ✨GOLD.✨

How do you use this resource? 
Choose your text.
Check your Literacy Lifesaver and decide which steps and which strategies within those steps you'd like students to go through BEFORE student read.  Write down what you plan in the empty template (provided in this resource).
Next, plan which steps you'd like to go through DURING and/or AFTER reading.  From the guide, choose which strategies within each step you'd like to use.  Fill these in in the empty planning template provided.
 
This was truly a lifesaver for me.  In fact, so much so that I printed and laminated the reference pages and always had them floating around my desk!
 
This resource includes:
⭐ A fully editable reference booklet - suitable for teachers of any subject - outlining:
6 steps you can take before students read the text, and
14 steps you can work through after students read the text.
⭐ A fully editable planning template.  (Refer to the reference booklet for possible methods and strategies as you plan.) 
⭐ Editable templates for students to use, including:
A KWL chart, and
An anticipatory reading chart.
 
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page.   This means your resource: 
Is completely editable.
Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Grammar Ungarbled - A reference book for teachers
✅ Getting Cushy on Close Reading (for seniors)
✅ Lit Fit Bits - Reading Activities
✅ Lit Fit S.I.P. - Reading Activities
✅ Reading Shorties (Collection)
✅ Literacy (Reading and Writing) Theme Packs (Collection)
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