Thinking Tools for Young Readers and Writers: Strategies to Promote Higher Literacy in Grades 2–8
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Cognitive Strategies

Below you will find visual aides for each of the cognitive strategies to use in the classroom.  Use these visuals to introduce the strategies and provide a visual reference for your students.
Click on the icon to download all the files in one folder.
cognitive_strategy_visuals.zip
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Adopting an Alignment
Analyzing Author's Craft
Ask Questions
Clarifying
Evaluating
Forming Interpretations
Making Connections
Making Predictions
Monitoring
Planning and Goal Setting
Reflecting ans Relating
Revising Meaning
Summarizing
Tapping Prior Knowledge
Visualizing
Making Inferences

Cognitive Strategy Videos

Emily McCourtney created short videos for her students to "flip" instruction for the strategies.  Hover over the image to see the video for each strategy.

Strategy Quick Guide

Here is a half-page guide to the strategies that students can glue inside their Reader's Notebooks.
Notebook Guide to CS
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  • Home
  • Cognitive Strategies
    • Mystery Trash
    • Cognitive Strategies
  • Best Practices
    • Building a Classroom Community
    • Strategy Instruction
    • Cognitive Strategy Bookmarks
    • Book Clubs
    • Modeling with Mentor Texts
    • Graphic Grammar
    • Writer's Notebook
    • Vocabulary
    • Formative Assessment
  • Narrative
    • Theme
    • On the Nose
    • Memory Snapshot
    • Saturation Research
  • Informative
    • Article of the Day
    • Text Structures
    • Initial Report
    • Wacky Weather Report
    • State Brochure
    • Endangered Species
  • Argumentative
    • OREO Argument
    • Amendment Commercial
    • Topic vs. Theme
    • Ribbons
    • Argument Essays
    • Argument PSAs
  • About Us