Strategy 1: Planning/Preparation
SQ3R Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review Level of Expertise: 4
What is the instructional strategy?
The instructional strategy I am using is SQ3R (Survey, Questions, Read, Recite, Review), which will help guide my students’ comprehension before, during, and after reading pages 683-686 in their American Journey Social Studies textbook (Billmeyer & Barton, 1998; Doty, Cameron, & Barton, 2003).
Why does the strategy work?
This strategy guides students through a text by previewing the text, encouraging them to find the main ideas, asking questions, and making predictions about what they will read. This strategy also encourages students to engage with the text, which will help guide their understanding of the text and its many features.
How does it work?
1) First, I select a text passage that students would benefit from using with SQ3R.
2) Survey: Next, students preview the text passage (i.e.: pages 683-686). During this step, students are encouraged to explore the various features of the text, such as, titles, subtitles, section headings, images, charts, and captions.
3) Question: After exploring these text features, students are asked to make questions from them.
4) Read: Next, students are going to read the assigned text passage. Students will use this information to answer the questions they posed.
5) Recite: Students will then state and explain what they read and make notes.
6) Review: Finally, students will use the notes they made to help them review what they read.
Sources Referenced: Billmeyer & Barton, 1998; Doty, Cameron, & Barton, 2003
What does it look like?
Name: ___________________________
Directions: Complete the following SQ3R Reading Guide as you read pp. 683-686 in your American Journey textbook.
Survey:
1) Look at the section title: What do you want to know?
What was the war like at home? What home? What stage in the war?
2) Glance at the section subheadings, graphics, and the introductory and conclusion sentences: What do you think this section will be about?
Getting the U.S.
How Americans reacted to the war
Question:
3) Turn the section title into a question.
What was the war like at home?
4) Write any other questions that arose as you survey the section.
What are bonds?, What supplies did the U.S. produce?, How did the U.S.
5) Write down unfamiliar vocabulary and find the meaning.
Read:
6) Actively read the section by searching for the answers to the questions you posed.
7) React to what you read by responding to confusing words and ideas, and generating additional questions.
Recite:
8) Recall what you read in the space below.
9) Recite the answers to the questions you answered.
Review:
10) Organize the information you found.
11) Summarize the information you organized using a graphic organizer or preparing a summary statement.
