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GENAZZANO FCJ COLLEGE

The Genazzano Reading Program: Engagement and Visible Thinking

• Years Five to Ten• Embedded in English Curriculum•Genre Based• Choice & Diversity•Goals and Reflection• Student Interaction •Visible Thinking Approaches•Assessment Tasks

One crucial factor that education systems can work on is the degree to which students are active and well motivated readers. This report shows that the degree to which students are engaged in reading is a crucial factor associated with reading proficiency.

OECD (2000) Reading for Change: Performance and Engagement Across Countries. Results form PISA 2000

(Executive summary): OECD - PISA (Program for International Student Assessment). p. 3.

Engagement

• Access

• Relevant Collections

• Time and space for reading

• Meaningful encounters with rich texts

• Support in understanding how texts work

• Opportunities to explore and share those understandings

• Knowledgeable, helpful staff

• A supportive, welcoming environment

Facilitating Engagement

Providing

Choice

Creating classroom communities, providing challenging tasks, and allowing students to make choices characterise effective practices that connect to students’ interests and motivations. Connecting to students’ interests and values ultimately can produce motivated, engaged readers.

Guthrie, John T. & Donna E Alvermann (1999) (editors) Engaged Reading: Process, Practices and Policy Implications. New York Teachers College Press, p. 69.

Choice

Children learn about literature from what the adultsaround them do about it.

Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187.

Reading Communities

CSI: Colour, Symbol (or sound), Image

Generate Sort Connect Elaborate

A picture is worth a 100o words

What makes you say that? See Think Wonder

Zoom in our out Headlines

Sentence Phrase Word Graphic Novels

Step Inside Titles

Do you judge a book by its cover? The Tell Me Approach

Making Thinking Visible

• Seven clubs across year 5 to 12• Share reading interests• Read a common book and discuss• Enter competitions• Create lists, guides and reviews• Play book related games• Litfest and Book Week Activities• IASL International Book Mark Exchange• Literary Afternoon Teas

“It’s really good how each session there

was a focus on a different genre of books.

Eg mystery, family, future etc. It allowed

me to broaden my reading and try new

texts.

Also using video clips for some topics was

a good way of explaining and delivering

information.”

“A wonderful opportunity to discover and

learn about new books.

I really loved hearing people suggestions,

and this is how I mainly found new books

to read.”