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Search Strategy

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What is it?

Search Strategy is a strategy used before, during and after reading a passage. This strategy helps students to research a topic with greater detail. Each letter of SEARCH has a specific meaning, as you will see in the example and the steps that follow.

How does it work?

1. Students will Search for a topic to do more research on. Well, this step is done, because you will all be researching Pythagoras.

2. As a group, Establish all of the prior knowledge about this topic (Pythagoras). Questions that you should try to answer are "What do I know?, "What do I think I know?" and "What is it that I would like to know?".

3. Then Ask questions about Pythagoras.

4. Now it is time to read the passages, ONE AT A TIME.

5. Then as a group Come Together and answer some of the questions your team asked.

6. Then Have a discussion on what else from the reading passage is important information.