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Analogy Charting
This comprehension strategy helps students to understand new concepts by making comparisons to concepts that are similar to ones more familiar to them. Through the identification of elements of both concepts that are both similar and different, students will be able to make more lasting connections and understandings of the new concept. In Social Studies specifically, this can be helpful to bridge the gap between historical concepts and their more modern equivalent. One example might be to have students complete an analogy chart using empirical dynasties as the new concept and family structure as the familiar concept. By comparing the structure of an ancient empire to the hierarchy in a family, students can begin to understand the reason for long lines of family dynasties in ancient civilizations. |
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Chapter Tours Chapter tours help readers to "frontload" their knowledge of a topic to put the reading into better context. They help students to gain an understanding of textbook organization and how it is tied to content comprehension. The completed "tour" sheet allows students to predict a passage and then confirm or reject predictions. It is also a way to help students recognize what is most important in a chapter. Social Studies textbooks are notoriously very text-heavy with limited supporting visuals. The reading can easily seem daunting to students, so chapter tours can help the overall task seem manageable and reasonable if students understand how it is tied to the goals/outcomes of the overall unit being taught in the classroom. |