* Are designed for enhancing use of listening and reading cognitive strategies.
* Offer a wide range of SMARTsheets provided for each of the following areas:
* Story Grammar * Character Analysis * Literary Analysis * Text Perusal * Story Problem * Questioning * Inferencing * Predicting
* Contain embedded semantic prompts that cue use of powerful cognitive comprehension strategies, as well as topic-specific prompts. For example, the Character Analysis SMARTsheets contain prompts designed to target or focus student thinking on the essential elements involved when analyzing a character (e.g., appearance and personality of a character, role in the story, how the character changed).
* Have become very popular among reading coaches, speech-language pathologists, and English as second language teachers.
* Range in sophistication from those designed for use in the primary grades to those used at the secondary and college levels.
Software includes 72 color and 72 black/white interactive SMARTsheets and over 88 examples of how teachers and students have used them.
What Teachers Say..
"Well, it is here!!!! A great wake-up call for me after 22 years of teaching Special Education. The Make Sense Strategies™ is a refreshing tool and concept to get old information to students in a new way. After years of teaching the same subjects year after year, any teacher will need a new way to present materials to their students. One of the strategies, the Graphic Organizer (Frame) is the most useful tool for my students in writing the summary of an article from the newspaper, taking notes and writing the main idea from the materials they have studied. This strategy did not work or was received immediately, but took a little time. This tool is excellent for teaching in the classroom as well as tutoring your children at home."
Velma Rowden
Special Education Teacher & Transition Coordinator
Clarke County Public Schools
Jackson, AL