DSPS Tutor In-Service
Reading & Writing Strategies

Role Model: Carol Greider, the 2009 Nobel laureate in medicine who has dyslexia, graduated from UCSB's the College of Creative Studies in 1983.

Questioning as Mediated Learning
Drawing out the students’ potentials while guiding the learning process

Cognitive Abilities URL: Abstract to Concrete Diagram and Processing Areas

Strategy: An approach to learning based on principles, rules and techniques; it focuses both on how to learn and how to effectively use what has been learned.

Scaffolding

SCALE – a strategy for tutoring
Set environment
Clarify assignment
Assess student’s approach to learning
Learning strategy
Evaluate and extend
URL: Scale

Reading
RAP for Paraphrasing Packet, p. 54; Eg. Paraphrasing

SQ5R for Reading and Studying Packet, p. 59

Writing
TOWER for Composing Packet, p. 8-46; TOWER

Putting it all together in a Study Plan
The Study Pyramid:
Time Planning
Reading Strategies and Notetaking
Test Preparation
Test Taking
Packet, p. 101; Study Pyramid

Resources are from the DSPS 77: Writing & Reading Strategies course packet and Gerry Lewin’s website.

Gerry Lewin’s Office: SS270D