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Areas of Impact

School-Wide
Classroom

Age Group

Middle school 

Length

20-30 minutes 

Frequency

daily

Type

Print Materials

Say Something Cards

academic strategies, Collaboration & Community Skills

Say Something cards deepen students' reading comprehension in a fun, collaborative way.

Overview

These cards scaffold students’ metacognitive thinking while reading.

Context

Teachers can use these cards to support students’ reading comprehension with any text, fiction or non-fiction.

Implementation

Because students may not be used to processing what they read deeply, introduce the method one card at a time, using texts appropriate to those strategies. Also, at first use only the front sides of the cards (Predict, Monitor, Question, Clarify, Visualize, Comment, Connect, or Compare). After students show mastery of the front sides, introduce the “Build” side on the back. Once students are practiced using all of the cards, they can choose which card to use as they pause during reading.

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