This is a presentation the introduces what reading for depth is, why so many students struggle to get there, and how the right instructional strategies can help overcome the obstacles.

1. Are your students reading for depth?

2. Natalie Saaris
Senior Manager of Instruction
Actively Learn

3. Our objectives for this presentation:
● Establish what reading for depth means
● Establish why reading for depth is hard
● Experience first-hand how Actively Learn
helps to overcome the obstacles to
depth

4. What is reading for depth?

5. Depth is...

6. Depth is...
Understand

7. Depth is...
Understand
90% of
instruction

8. Depth is...
Understand
Analyze

10. Depth is...
Understand
Analyze
Apply

11. Why is getting to
depth so hard?

12. 1. Students don’t know how to read for depth
Three obstacles to depth...

14. 1. Students don’t know how to read for depth
2. Students can’t access the text
Three obstacles to depth...

15. 1. Students don’t know how to read for depth
2. Students can’t access the text
3. Students (and their teachers) don’t know if they
are thinking in the right way
Three obstacles to depth...

17. How to reach depth: The A-S-R framework

18. How to reach depth: The A-S-R framework
Questioning
Annotation
Discussion
Modeling
Activate
Thinking

19. How to reach depth: The A-S-R framework
Questioning
Annotation
Discussion
Modeling
Activate
Thinking
Support
Thinking
Scaffolding
Bkgd Knowledge
Accessibility
Building Vocabulary

20. How to reach depth: The A-S-R framework
Questioning
Annotation
Discussion
Modeling
Activate
Thinking
Support
Thinking
Reveal
Thinking
Scaffolding
Bkgd Knowledge
Accessibility
Building Vocabulary
Formative Evaluation
Feedback
Metacognition
Extensive Writing

21. Let’s dive in!
http://tiny.cc/Iowa-City

22. What did you think of the reading
experience on Actively Learn?

23. Questions?
info@activelylearn.com