STEM Network
Reading Apprenticeship
Positive Self Talk - "come on, keep going, you can do this..."
Cross-referenceing the text with the graph. Do these connect? How do they connect?
Reading Strategies List
Skipping to some part of the text I understood and going from there.
Using prior knowlege to connect to the reading.
Following curiosity and connecting interests and prior knowlege.
Finding a purpose for the reading.
Theresa Martin's class uses a metacognitive log to get started in noticing their reading processes. They share in class and build a classroom culture of sharing reading strategies. How can you build this into your classroom practice? Activites for introducing and using a Reading Strategies List are in Reading for Understanding page 95-97
Our Reading Strategies
Spiderman - how can I get a connection to get to the next thing?
Should we front-load application as instructors to create more wonder and curiosity? So that students persist in reading?
How can we encourage persistance for our students?
Inquiry Questions
When and how should we bring the reading strategies list into our classrooms? How can it become recursive inquiry in to how to read in our discipline?
Ideas for making it real - in our classrooms
How do we create safety so that students don't feel like outsiders or overly comparative during this process?
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Tell personal stories of YOUR reading history supports and barriers
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Help students see how their strategies contribute to the success of the group.
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Have students' generate ideas for how to connect reading strategies on the list to new types of readings.
