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    The Sticky Note Strategy is a close reading technique that helps students keep track of ideas, themes, and details while reading textbooks. Students use sticky notes to ask questions, summarize information, identify main ideas, and sequence events. This strategy can benefit students with learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD by improving memory, reading ability, organization, vocabulary, reading comprehension, attention, and impulsivity. The Sticky Note Strategy is flexible, encourages metacognition, and can be used across grade levels.

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    The Sticky Note Strategy is a close reading technique that helps students keep track of ideas, themes, and details while reading textbooks. Students use sticky notes to ask questions, summarize information, identify main ideas, and sequence events. This strategy can benefit students with learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD by improving memory, reading ability, organization, vocabulary, reading comprehension, attention, and impulsivity. The Sticky Note Strategy is flexible, encourages metacognition, and can be used across grade levels.

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    The Sticky Note Strategy is a close reading technique that helps students keep track of ideas, themes, and details while reading textbooks. Students use sticky notes to ask questions, summarize information, identify main ideas, and sequence events. This strategy can benefit students with learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD by improving memory, reading ability, organization, vocabulary, reading comprehension, attention, and impulsivity. The Sticky Note Strategy is flexible, encourages metacognition, and can be used across grade levels.

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    The Sticky Note Strategy is a close reading technique that helps students keep track of ideas, themes, and details while reading textbooks. Students use sticky notes to ask questions, summarize information, identify main ideas, and sequence events. This strategy can benefit students with learning disabilities, emotional/behavioral disorders, mild intellectual disabilities, autism, and ADHD by improving memory, reading ability, organization, vocabulary, reading comprehension, attention, and impulsivity. The Sticky Note Strategy is flexible, encourages metacognition, and can be used across grade levels.

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    Rebecca Jackson 11

    Teaching Reading with the STICKY NOTE STRATEGY


    Sticky Note Reading is a close reading strategy.
    It helps students keep track of an idea, a theme, or details while reading in a textbook.

    How does Sticky Note Reading work?


    It works by directing the reader's attention to the text itself.

    Why does Sticky Note Reading work?


    Using Sticky Notes in conjunction with close reading helps
    students to record questions, interesting facts and details
    they wont remember.
    It helps students with ADHD focus on their work, students
    with autism have concrete manipulatives and students
    thinking about their thinking (metacognition).

    Use Sticky Notes to Population Who does it work for?


    Ask questions The Sticky Note Strategy can help students overcome several different
    Summarize information disability characteristics:
    Identify main ideas
    LD students: Memory, reading ability
    Sequence events
    EBD students: Lack of organization
    Identify vocabulary
    MID & CD students: Weak vocabulary
    Autism: Difficulty with reading comprehension and following directions
    ADHD students: Selective & sustained attention problems, impulsivity,
    high levels of verbal & motor activity
    The Sticky Note Strategy can be used by all students in an inclusion class.

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    Rebecca Jackson

    The Sticky Note Strategy (continued)

    Rationale
    Talking Back to Books
    The Sticky Note Strategy can be adapted for all reading comprehension
    on Sticky Notes
    outcomes. It is a flexible tool that not only helps students with understanding
    Ask questions & make and comprehending the text they are reading, it can help them organize and
    observations to help increase categorize their thoughts. And as a plus, teachers may use Sticky Notes for
    comprehension. praise and as a classroom management tool!
    Increases opportunities for positive feedback
    Encourages metacognition
    Helps increase students sense of self-efficacy
    Works across all grade levels
    Breaks down large intimidating tasks into small workable steps
    Helps focus attention on the essential elements
    Encourages questioning
    Helps students who struggle with organization and chronological order
    Offers visual aid that allows students to interact with the process physically
    Students can take with them and use at home
    Kids love Sticky Notes!

    Procedures: Introducing Sticky Notes into your classroom is easy!


    1. When starting with Sticky Notes, explicitly state and model what the Sticky Notes are for.
    2. Introduce Sticky Notes and limit the number given to each student.
    3. Give explicit directions on how to use Sticky Notes and why we are using them.
    4. Model using Sticky Notes for your goal.
    5. Use the Sticky Note method with the whole class: Read aloud while students use their new strategy to identify
    information.
    6. Ask the students to share what they flagged with Sticky Notes.

    Practice each comprehension skill separately before widening the scope and purpose of Sticky Notes.

    References
    Harvey, Stephanie & Goudis, Anne (2013) Comprehension at the core. The Reading Teaching, Vol. 66(6)
    DOI:10.1002/TRTR.1145
    Dugan, J. R., Linder, P. E., Sampson, M. B., & Brancato, B. A. (2004). Celebrating the Power of Literacy. The
    Twenty-Sixth Yearbook: A Peer Reviewed Publication of The College Reading Association [Papers from the
    College Reading Association Conference, 2004]. College Reading Association. Pps 182-192
    Stormont, Melissa A. (2008). Increase academic success for children with ADHD using sticky notes and highlighters.
    Intervention in School and Clinic, Vol. 43, No5 DOI 10.1177/1053451207311768
    Zentall, Sydney D. (2005). Theory and evidence-based strategies for children with attentional problems. Psychology
    in the Schools, Vol. 42(8) DOI: 10.1002/pits.20114 2

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