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Reading Apprenticeship
What were you doing that helped you make sense of the text?
Talking to the text is a way to help students to be intentional about being metacgnitive. This routine is allowing students to have time to quietly grapple with a text and write on the text extensively about their thought process of attacking the text. As you monitor students, you can see their questions and grappling on the paper.
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We were all using prior knowledge.
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This reminds me of something...
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Turned back to the previous page to decode some of the symbols.
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Being a mathemetician, I was curious about the sine function at the top. I was trying to find relationships to what I saw in the graphs. I kept writing down formulas to try to make sense of it.
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Applying thories and formulas that I know to what I don't know.
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Writing down questions that can help each person dive deeper into the text. Learning to verbalize and capture the questions that come up and can lead us forward is a skill to learn.
Notice the questions. This reader knows what they don't know. How could you respond to this student as the instructor?
What connections is this individual making to prior knowledge?
Notice the questions. This reader knows what they don't know. How could you respond to this student as the instructor?
Reading for Understanding pages 108-110
As we do this with students, we can capture talking to the text on the screen to keep track of how students are thinking and how it connects.
We can guide conversation to the point of asking, how do these diagrams connect and how do they connect to the prior reading and application of this concept?
Talking to the Text
As you decide how to implement "Talking to the Text" ask yourself, how can you model it to show students that it is more about using this as a way to slow down the reading process and use clues to figure things out as they go and dive into the reading with their confusion and curiosity not retreating when they hit a block?