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Leigh Newton

MyRead Guide - Three Stages Of Reading - 11 views

  • The Three Stages Of Reading strategy involves teaching students to delve into text. The Before Reading stage provides a scaffold for new concepts and vocabulary, promotes engagement and provides a means for prediction. The second stage, During Reading, allows students to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with ‘new’ information in the text. The last stage, After Reading, allows students to articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and to think critically about the validity of the text.
  • Before Reading Stage
  • One of the purposes of Before Reading is to acknowledge the different experiences and background knowledge that students bring to a text, influencing how they will read and learn from a particular text. By knowing what students bring to a text the teacher can provide students with appropriate scaffolds to make links between what is already known and new information presented in a text.
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  • During Reading Stage
  • During this stage of the reading process students need structured means to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with the ‘new or unknown’ within the text. They are processing the text and self-monitoring.
  • After Reading Stage
  • During the After Reading stage students articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and think critically about the validity of the text. Two tools that can be during this stage are Paired Reviews and Story Stars.
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    "The Three Stages Of Reading strategy involves teaching students to delve into text. The Before Reading stage provides a scaffold for new concepts and vocabulary, promotes engagement and provides a means for prediction. The second stage, During Reading, allows students to integrate the knowledge and information they bring to the text with 'new' information in the text. The last stage, After Reading, allows students to articulate and process their understanding of what they have read and to think critically about the validity of the text."
Todd Finley

Jim Burke: English Companion - How To Read an Image - 0 views

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    The age demanded an image. -Ezra Pound Rationale In our world of multi- and visual media, we must expand our notion of what a text is and how we must read it. As more texts are used to convey information print once did, we must bring to these visual texts critical literacies that will help us construct meaning from their elements. The following questions are designed to help readers make sense of images they encounter in various contexts. Ask the Following Questions * Why are we looking at this? * What are we looking for? * How should we look at this? * What choices did the artist make and how did they affect its meaning? * Is this image in its original state (i.e., no manipulation or "doctoring")? * What are the different components in this image? * How are they related to each other? * What is the main idea or argument the image expresses? * In what context or under what conditions was this image originally created? Displayed? * Who created it? * Was it commissioned? (If so, by whom? And for what purpose?) * What was the creator trying to do here? (i.e., narrate, explain, describe, persuade-or some combination?) * Can you find any tension or examples of conflict within the image? If so, what are they? What is their source? How are they represented? * Do you like this image? (Regardless of your answer: Why?) * How would you describe the artist's technique? * What conventions govern this image? How do they contribute to or detract from its ability to convey its message? * What does it consist of? * Why are parts arranged the way they are? * What is the main idea behind this image? * What does this image show (i.e., objectively; see Vietnam Memorial image) * What does it mean (subjectively; see Vietnam Memorial image) * Is this presented as an interpretation? Factual record? Impression? * What is the larger context of which this image is a part? * What is it made fro
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    The age demanded an image. -Ezra Pound Rationale In our world of multi- and visual media, we must expand our notion of what a text is and how we must read it. As more texts are used to convey information print once did, we must bring to these visual texts critical literacies that will help us construct meaning from their elements. The following questions are designed to help readers make sense of images they encounter in various contexts. Ask the Following Questions * Why are we looking at this? * What are we looking for? * How should we look at this? * What choices did the artist make and how did they affect its meaning? * Is this image in its original state (i.e., no manipulation or "doctoring")? * What are the different components in this image? * How are they related to each other? * What is the main idea or argument the image expresses? * In what context or under what conditions was this image originally created? Displayed? * Who created it? * Was it commissioned? (If so, by whom? And for what purpose?) * What was the creator trying to do here? (i.e., narrate, explain, describe, persuade-or some combination?) * Can you find any tension or examples of conflict within the image? If so, what are they? What is their source? How are they represented? * Do you like this image? (Regardless of your answer: Why?) * How would you describe the artist's technique? * What conventions govern this image? How do they contribute to or detract from its ability to convey its message? * What does it consist of? * Why are parts arranged the way they are? * What is the main idea behind this image? * What does this image show (i.e., objectively; see Vietnam Memorial image) * What does it mean (subjectively; see Vietnam Memorial image) * Is this presented as an interpretation? Factual record? Impression? * What is the larger context of which this image is a part? * What is it made fro
Melody Velasco

10 Technology Enhanced Alternatives to Book Reports - TheApple.com - 9 views

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    The most dreaded word in school reading for students: book reports. Teachers assign them, viewing them as a necessary component of assessing reading comprehension. So, how can we as teachers continue to monitor our students understanding of reading material without killing the love of reading? Enter technology.
anonymous

Digital Booktalk - 0 views

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    How do you select books to read? Do you use the jacket cover? Word of mouth? Reading lists? Which comes first, reading a book or watching a movie made from it?
anonymous

How do you inspire kids to read - Reading Strategies Group - 0 views

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    How do you inspire kids to read?
Melody Velasco

The Future of Reading and Writing is Collaborative - 10 views

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    "The keys to understanding this new perspective on writing and reading lie in notions of collaboration and being social. More specifically, it's believing that collaboration and increased socialization around activities like reading and writing is a good idea."
Gary Plumley

Professional Luxury limo hire & Wedding Car Service in Limo hire reading - 0 views

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    Limo Hire Reading - We operate only the finest limousines & Wedding Cars maintained to the highest industry standards inside & out by our experienced staff In Reading Today.
Sharon Elin

13 Great Resources for Finding Free Public Domain Books ~ Educational Technology and Mo... - 24 views

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    "One important form of digital reading is reading ebooks. There are actually several resources online which provide both premium and free ebooks to readers. I have dome some laborious search into these resources and come up with the list below. This list features only platforms that provide free ebooks or a mixture of free and premium (freemium) eBooks. The purpose behind this compilation is to provide teachers and eventually students with trusted resources where they can search for and read free ebooks."
Cindy Marston

Online Reading Strategies - 0 views

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    Great site that walks through the process of reading a web site, with pop up notes to explain the reading and questioning process
Cindy Marston

Deep Reading - - 12 views

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    Jan 2011 article about research into the nature of reading - print v online and our need to explicitly teach how to read online
Todd Finley

Students Written Reflection - Rotational Model - 6 views

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    The problem with 40 students is that there is no way to read (much less comment upon) every post if every student is posting every week. I am toying then with a rotation model (inspired by Randy Bass), in which students are divided into five groups of eight students, cycling through these five roles: * Role 1 - Students are "first readers," posting initial questions and insights about the reading to the class blog by Monday morning * Role 2 - Students are "respondents," building upon, disagreeing with, or clarifying the first readers' posts by class time on Tuesday * Role 3 - Students are "synthesizers," mediating and synthesizing the dialogue between first readers and respondents by Thursday * Role 4 - Students are responsible for the week's class notes (see next section on Wikis) * Role 5 - Students have this week "off" in terms of blogging and the wiki I like the rotation model because each group of students is reading for and reacting to something different. The shifting positionality affords them greater traction, offers greater variety, and guarantees a dialogue without comments from myself.
Dana Huff

Tracking Independent Reading in high school - 18 views

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    Jeff Utecht describes how you can use Goodreads to track students' independent reading.
Dana Huff

The Great Gatsby - Studio 360 - 10 views

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    "Studio 360 explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and finds out how this compact novel became the great American story of our age. Novelist Jonathan Franzen tells Kurt Andersen why he still reads it every year or two, and writer Patricia Hampl explains why its lightness is deceptive. We'll drive around the tony Long Island suburbs where Gatsby was set, and we'll hear from Andrew Lauren about his film G, which sets Gatsby among the hip-hop moguls. And Azar Nafisi describes the power of teaching the book to university students in Tehran. Readings come courtesy of Scott Shepherd, an actor who sometimes performs the entire book from memory."
Cindy Marston

Blogging and Reading Comprehension Strategies « Classroom Tech Tips - 1 views

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    Blog post about using reading comprehension strategies to reinforce strategy and teach good blogging skills
Alison Hall

Project: Middle Years Book Club (MYBC) - 0 views

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    MYBC allows students 10-14 years to share their love of reading. We invite you to tell us what you are reading, post book reviews, participate in discussions and celebrations.
anonymous

Animal Farm 2.0 - Reading won't hurt « - 1 views

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    We want the students to get back into reading books, talking about books and thinking the language of books
lysuhoai

Lesson 02 - Reading comprehension - TOEFL - English Quiz Online - 0 views

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    The test consists of 1 reading comprehension paragraph, and 12 multiple - choice questions for this text, the time limit is 20 minutes. Hope you do it best! Read the text below and answer the questions: Carbohydrates, which are sugars, are an essential part of a healthy diet.
Dana Huff

AAUP: New-Media Literacies - 3 views

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    Being literate in a real-world sense means being able to read and write using the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries, consuming and producing words through reading and writing and, to a lesser extent, listening and speaking were sufficient. But because of inexpensive, easy-to-use, and widely available new tools, literacy now requires being conversant with new forms of media as well as text, including sound, graphics, and moving images.
Melody Velasco

Improving Reading Fluency with Poetry | Resources for Teaching Reading - 6 views

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    Here are two great research articles about fluency & many links to poetry resources. Poetry is a great way to practice fluency. See sidebar for more resources.
Dana Huff

The English Teacher's Companion: I Hear America Reading: A Love Letter from China - 0 views

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    Jim Burke hears America reading. Wonderful post about the beauty of books and the impact they have on readers.
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