Reading and Thinking

Not a Spectator Sport

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Reading: What do we do?

Take a peek into your deep dark thoughts as you read

Annotate

LEAVE TRACKS OF

YOUR THINKING

Does this help?

Comprehension Quiz

• Which tergite is a broad, quadrate plate?• What starts at the posterior lateral corners of

the tergite?• What is absent in most other Nematocera?

Comprehension Quiz

• Which tergite is a broad, quadrate plate?

–The 9th one• What starts at the posterior lateral corners of

the tergite?

–A pair of appendages• What is absent in most other Nematocera?

–The appendages

Reading or word

calling?

Did the quiz REALLY assess comprehension?

Construction of

Meaning

Disciplinary Literacy

General Literacy

Basic Literacy

The increasing specialization of

literacy development

Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan, Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content Area Literacy

ThinkingStrategies

Set a PURPOSE for

reading.

Preview and predict

Activate and Use Backgro

und knowled

ge

Monitor, clarify, and

fix

Look at your annotations

Visualize and create visual representatives/images

Ask Questions

Summarize and retell

Draw inferences

Look at your annotations

The questions that poultry men face as they raise chickens from incubation to adult life are not easy to answer. Both farmers and merchants can become concerned when health problems such as coccidiosis arise any time after the egg state to later life. Experts recommend that young chicks should have plenty of sunshine and nutritious food for healthy growth. Banties and geese should not share the same barnyard or even sleep in the same roost. They may be afraid of the dark.

to your inner voice

Skill and Strategy

Skill/Strategy Strategy

WHAT CAN A TEACHER DO?

DON’T JUST

ASSIGN….

TEACH

to find the “what”

Strategies: how

Thoughtful reading is only rarely a matter of insight. It is a gradual, groping process.

--Denny Palmer Wolf, Reading Reconsidered

It may be that as we [adults] reintroduce

ourselves to our own reading processes, we

need to make conscious the strategies our

minds have used subconsciously for so

many years.

--Keene and

Zimmerman

The Reading Strategies Book © 2015 Jennifer Serravallo

Notice and name

to your inner voice

Having a conversation with the text?

Having a conversation without the text?

Silence?

Strategy Confusion

THINKING STRATEGY• Setting a purpose• Visualizing• Questioning• Drawing inferences• Monitoring• …

INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY• Annotating• Paired reading• Sketch-note• Reciprocal teaching• Conversation questions• Silent chalk talk• ….

What about instructional strategies for your text?

https://sites.google.com/site/readinginthedisciplines….

EXPLORE

Instructional strategies

Practice

4 hours/day x

180 days a year x

13 years of school

9360 hours

BEFORE: set purpose, arouse curiosity

DURING: use the TS to construct meaning

AFTER: deepen, extend understanding

BEFORE: Get them ready to read

E-Waste

Your Questions

Your Answers

DURING READING

Comprehension occurs during the act of reading.-- P. David Pearson

Hold on to your thinking

After

Your turn

Before: Word SplashHotheadsAntarcticaPenguins

Pink moleHairlessIce borersMissing explorer

In one sentence, predict what the writer wants you to know, and list a

question you have.

During• Paired Reading– Chunked text– Time to talk

With another pair, write a headline.

Disciplinary Literacy

General Literacy

Basic Literacy

The increasing specialization of

literacy development

Timothy & Cynthia Shanahan, Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content Area Literacy

Disciplinary Literacy

Disciplinary reading refers to the specialized ways of knowing and communicating in the different disciplines.

• …these reading strategies work in tandem with the more discipline-specific literacy strategies to help students achieve their learning goals.

GoalsPurpose

Determining what’s importantQuestions to ask

Math Reading

• Goal: arrive at “truth”• Important: “close reading” of

every word in the text, precision • Heavy emphasis on error

detection

Chemistry Reading• Goal: predict how the world works• Important considerations: full understanding of

experiments or processes• Close connections among prose, graphs, charts,

formulas

History Reading

• Goal: make sense of the past • Important considerations: sourcing, corroboration,

context• Problem: single texts

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