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**December 4, 2013**
 * BHS Library Professional Development **
 * Strategies for Building Reading Skills in the Content Areas **
 * Focus on: Reading Online Reference Texts **

Through this activity, we will identify the __intrinsic skills__ we--as accomplished readers and researchers--bring to a reference reading task. These are the skills we need to __explicitly teach__ our students. We will conclude with a discussion of instructional strategies for doing so. 1. Choose one of the following topics to "research." Choose a topic you don't already know much about. (These are taken from actual student assignments.)
 * Christine de Pizan
 * My Lai Massacre
 * The Sioux Nation in Modern Times
 * The Viking Invasions

Spend some time gaining an overview of your topic, using any of the reference tools linked below. Your job is to come up with 2-3 questions that interest you in regard to your topic. (All these reference sources are available through any PSB library.) Use whatever process or system comes naturally to you, but note your research questions //as well as// your reading/thinking processes for our debrief.
 * World Book Encyclopedia
 * [|Encyclopedia Britannica]
 * Biography In Context (Gale)
 * World History in Context (Gale)
 * U.S. History in Context (Gale)