Reading for Intermediate and Advanced Learners, Fall, 2011

I will be presenting Power Thinking. This is a really easy way to introduce outlining to students. It also teaches them to chunk information in an organized way. There are three tiers to power thinking; power one is the topic/main idea, power two are the subtopics, and power three are the details that support each power two. For example:

Power One : TV Shows

Power Two: Comedies

Power Three: - Big Bang Theory
- The New Girl
- Two and a Half Men
- Mike and Molly

This is also a good way to get students to focus on headings and subheadings, so that they begin to see how informational text is organized and how they can use this to help them make sense of the information being presented.