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Active readers are interactive readers. Utilize these strategies to build interactive readers.
Schema
theory (prior knowledge) Asking questions Finding themes Visualizing (also link to inferences) Making inferences (read between the lines) Summarizing
Provide constant and consistent feedback to encourage reading and literacy. Feedback loops (charts for marking reading, new vocab words etc.) Student portfolios (helpful for parents and future/past teachers) Performance learning (larger projects like scenarios, case studies, experiments, inventions etc. etc.)
How do we intervene successfully? / intervention does not mean teach it louder and slower. One-to-One tutoring, rely on teacher modeling Examining Student Work (Collaborative)
Who has similar students Who has similar assignments Compare insights Create a rubric Examine student samples w/rubric
Summarize: verbal summary of reading Question: questions based on summary Clarify: investigate and revise Predict: what will happen next?
TUNE-IN TO TECHNOLOGY
Using practical technology and implied technology in the classroom Email, research, texting, online-programs, blogs, word-processing, spreadsheets, presentations, illustrations etc.
Read Aloud Read Along (in tandem) Read Appropriately (when students can count 5 words on a page they do not recognize, then the book is too hard)
She was lady-like, too, after the manner of the feminine gentility of those days; characterized by a certain state and dignity, rather than by the delicate, evanescent, and indescribable grace, which is now recognized as its indication. And never had Hester Prynne appeared more lady-like, in the antique interpretation of the term, than as she issued from the prison. Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.