Framing Main Ideas and Essential Details to Promote Comprehension (PDF)

By: Edwin S. Ellis

This article was adapted from The Framing Routine published by Masterminds, LLC. This book provides a variety of specific instructional strategies for using a highly versatile graphic organizer called the "Frame." The book provides a wide array of ways the Frame can be used at the beginning, middle, and end of instruction to make content-area learning more motivating and meaningful. The book also provides many suggestions for using the Frame to develop literacy and thinking skills. The appendix contains black-line masters of various versions of the Frame graphic organizer.

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