PD+CRI

December 4, 2013
==**Strategies for Building Reading Skills in the Content Areas** ==

**Focus on: 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. Christine de Pizan