Framing Our Reading-Part III

	Text Citation or Link	Rationale for Choosing	Text Frame(s)	Strategies Used and Resource
Engagement Example	Physics Talk: Understanding Motion	This article looks at constant and average speed and then discusses the Doppler Effect. This article would be valuable for a vocabulary overview guide because of the difficulty that can results between understanding constant and average speeds.	Concept/ Definition	Vocabulary Overview Guide (Buehl book)

Vocabulary Overview Guide is a reading comprehension strategy that students can undertake by selecting new or difficult vocabulary as they are reading and then setting them aside to explore the meaning of these words in more detail. By making students comprehend new vocabulary, we as teachers can improve their literacy and help students grow and conquer new material while working through new concepts. 

One way that students can learn more effectively is by creating Vocabulary Overview Guides where students can preview terms that they will encounter in their article readings and start to draw connections to the definitions of these terms. The goal of this strategy is help students see that learning new vocabulary is more than simply looking up terms in the dictionary and it can be engaging. Furthermore, when students are engaged in the vocabulary learning process, material becomes much more retainable rather than if students were to just study vocabulary terms for a test and then forget their meaning later. Another advantage of vocabulary overview guides is that students can work together and share their associations of words with their definitions, which could help students who struggle with vocabulary to create new connections and ways to remember terms.

In my experience, getting a preview of new terms before reading activities allowed me to consider what material I was going to learn and it also forced me to read the sections containing new or difficult terminology more in depth which usually would lead to a much better understanding of the concepts in the end.  By using this process to introduce new material to students, they can start to take ownership of the learning of new vocabulary.

The lesson that I have in mind would use this article in class and have students read through the vocabulary overview guide before students read the lesson. The Vocabulary Overview Guide for this article would include the terms: constant speed, average speed, velocity, frequency, and Doppler Effect. Then I would include clues for each term and then leave a blank space where students could guess the definition and then adjust their guess after reading the article. 

After reading the article, I would discuss these terms with the students to work through them. I would either have students use group discussion to work through these terms or come together as a class based on what I feel is appropriate within the class and how the students have handle new vocabulary previously. 

This reading strategy would be effective because while this article is very straightforward and the vocabulary seems simple besides the Doppler Effect, the strategy could be difficult for more complex articles and readings. The mathematical understanding that comes from this physics concept are difficult to comprehend and average and constant speed could be troubling for some students. The mathematics behind this can make it easier for students to relate to the differences between average and constant. Hopefully they can work together through the material to understand this difference and draw some conclusions about sound travel and speed. 

References

Buehl, D. (2013). Classroom strategies for interactive learning (4th ed.). Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Eisenkraft, A. (2010). Active physics: A project-based inquiry approach (3rd ed.). Mount Kisco, NY: It's About Time.