The Author Says/I Say (ASIS) reading strategy uses a chart to guide students in comprehending a text. The chart has four sections that elicit questioning, determining importance, making connections, and synthesizing understandings. Research shows engaging students in conversation about a text through strategies like ASIS aids comprehension. The act of conversation allows students to use cognitive strategies like making inferences and determining importance. Instruction incorporating student conversation increases engagement and allows students to comprehend texts more deeply.
Theories in reading instruction
TOP-DOWN READING MODEL
Emphasizes what the reader brings to the text
Says reading is driven by meaning
Proceeds from whole to part
Views from some researchers
1. Frank Smith – Reading is not decoding written language to spoken language
2. reading is a matter of bringing meaning to print
FEATURES OF TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Readers can comprehend a selection even though they do not recognize each word.
Readers should use meaning and grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words.
Reading for meaning is the primary objective of reading, rather than mastery of letters, letters/sound relationships and words.
FEATURES OF TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Reading requires the use of meaning activities than the mastery of series of word- recognition skills.
The primary focus of instruction should be the reading of sentences, paragraphs, and whole selections
The most important aspect about reading is the amount and kind of information gained through reading.
BOTTOM UP
Emphasizes a single direction
Emphasizes the written or printed texts
Part to whole model
Reading is driven by a process that results in meaning
PROPONENTS OF THE BOTTOM UP
Flesch 1955
Gough 1985
FEATURES OF BOTTOM-UP
Believes the reader needs to:
Identify letter features
Link these features to recognize letters
Combine letter to recognize spelling patterns
Link spelling patterns to recognize words
Proceed to sentence, paragraph, and text- level processing
INTERACTIVE READING MODEL
It recognizes the interaction of bottom-up and top-down processes simultaneously throughout the reading process.
Reading as an active process that depends on reader characteristics, the text, and the reading situation (Rumelhart, 1985)
Attempts to combine the valid insights of bottom-up and top-down models.
PROPONENTS OF THE INTERACTIVE READING MODEL
Rumelhart, D. 1985
Barr, Sadow, and Blachowicz 1990
Ruddell and Speaker 1985
This document discusses various theories of reading instruction. It describes early theories from Thorndike, Gray, and Goodman that viewed reading as a developmental process involving word perception, comprehension, reaction, and synthesis. Later psycholinguistic theories proposed reading involves using graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cueing systems simultaneously. The interactive and transactional theories of the late 20th century proposed reading as an interactive process where the reader interacts with text and prior knowledge. The document also discusses principles of balanced reading instruction incorporating skills, strategies, literature, and writing.
- There are several approaches to teaching beginning readers, including teaching the alphabet, developing phonemic awareness, and using a five-step decoding system.
- Effective programs provide opportunities for children to expand their oral and written language skills, read aloud daily, learn sound-letter relationships, develop decoding strategies, write, build vocabulary, and learn comprehension strategies.
- The goal is for children to understand the building blocks of language and reading in order to become independent and proficient readers.
The document discusses two reading strategies:
1. The bottom-up model focuses on decoding letters and sounds to understand meaning.
2. The top-down model involves using background knowledge to predict upcoming text.
It also describes methods for teaching reading to different age groups, including using pictures, familiar words, whole sentences, and texts in the child's native language. Different reading materials and introducing new books are discussed as well.
The document discusses various models of the reading process, including bottom-up, top-down, and interactive models. The bottom-up model views reading as a linear process of decoding letters into sounds and combining them into words. The top-down model sees reading as a psycholinguistic process where the reader uses context and schema to predict and confirm meanings. The interactive model integrates aspects of bottom-up and top-down models, recognizing the flexible use of graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cues. Emerging models emphasize the roles of schema, inference, prior knowledge, and the reader's goals in the meaning-making process.
The document discusses the process and benefits of reading. It describes reading as a complex cognitive process involving decoding symbols to derive meaning through interaction between the text and reader. There are three main theories of reading comprehension: schema theory involving prior knowledge, mental model theory creating a story in one's head, and proposition theory constructing main ideas. The benefits of reading include mental stimulation, stress reduction, knowledge gain, vocabulary expansion, memory improvement, analytical thinking, focus, better writing skills, tranquility, and free entertainment. Overall, reading provides a variety of cognitive benefits and is an efficient way to learn.
The document discusses several theoretical models of reading:
- The traditional view sees reading as decoding written symbols into sounds with meaning residing in the text.
- The cognitive view sees reading as an interactive process where the reader makes predictions using background knowledge.
- The metacognitive view sees reading as involving thinking about one's reading process and using strategies like setting a purpose.
It also provides tips for implementing reading theories with examples like preparing students with background information, discussing the reading purpose, and encouraging active reading techniques during the reading process.
The document discusses the bottom-up, or part-to-whole, model of the reading process proposed by Gough. According to this model, reading involves hierarchically processing text from small parts like letters and sounds to larger units like words, sentences, and full comprehension. The model believes readers must first identify visual features, link them to letters, then words, and finally build understanding of sentences and full texts. However, the bottom-up model has been criticized for underestimating the role of readers' prior knowledge and expectations in processing text.
Theories in reading instruction
TOP-DOWN READING MODEL
Emphasizes what the reader brings to the text
Says reading is driven by meaning
Proceeds from whole to part
Views from some researchers
1. Frank Smith – Reading is not decoding written language to spoken language
2. reading is a matter of bringing meaning to print
FEATURES OF TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Readers can comprehend a selection even though they do not recognize each word.
Readers should use meaning and grammatical cues to identify unrecognized words.
Reading for meaning is the primary objective of reading, rather than mastery of letters, letters/sound relationships and words.
FEATURES OF TOP-DOWN APPROACH
Reading requires the use of meaning activities than the mastery of series of word- recognition skills.
The primary focus of instruction should be the reading of sentences, paragraphs, and whole selections
The most important aspect about reading is the amount and kind of information gained through reading.
BOTTOM UP
Emphasizes a single direction
Emphasizes the written or printed texts
Part to whole model
Reading is driven by a process that results in meaning
PROPONENTS OF THE BOTTOM UP
Flesch 1955
Gough 1985
FEATURES OF BOTTOM-UP
Believes the reader needs to:
Identify letter features
Link these features to recognize letters
Combine letter to recognize spelling patterns
Link spelling patterns to recognize words
Proceed to sentence, paragraph, and text- level processing
INTERACTIVE READING MODEL
It recognizes the interaction of bottom-up and top-down processes simultaneously throughout the reading process.
Reading as an active process that depends on reader characteristics, the text, and the reading situation (Rumelhart, 1985)
Attempts to combine the valid insights of bottom-up and top-down models.
PROPONENTS OF THE INTERACTIVE READING MODEL
Rumelhart, D. 1985
Barr, Sadow, and Blachowicz 1990
Ruddell and Speaker 1985
This document discusses various theories of reading instruction. It describes early theories from Thorndike, Gray, and Goodman that viewed reading as a developmental process involving word perception, comprehension, reaction, and synthesis. Later psycholinguistic theories proposed reading involves using graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cueing systems simultaneously. The interactive and transactional theories of the late 20th century proposed reading as an interactive process where the reader interacts with text and prior knowledge. The document also discusses principles of balanced reading instruction incorporating skills, strategies, literature, and writing.
- There are several approaches to teaching beginning readers, including teaching the alphabet, developing phonemic awareness, and using a five-step decoding system.
- Effective programs provide opportunities for children to expand their oral and written language skills, read aloud daily, learn sound-letter relationships, develop decoding strategies, write, build vocabulary, and learn comprehension strategies.
- The goal is for children to understand the building blocks of language and reading in order to become independent and proficient readers.
The document discusses two reading strategies:
1. The bottom-up model focuses on decoding letters and sounds to understand meaning.
2. The top-down model involves using background knowledge to predict upcoming text.
It also describes methods for teaching reading to different age groups, including using pictures, familiar words, whole sentences, and texts in the child's native language. Different reading materials and introducing new books are discussed as well.
The document discusses various models of the reading process, including bottom-up, top-down, and interactive models. The bottom-up model views reading as a linear process of decoding letters into sounds and combining them into words. The top-down model sees reading as a psycholinguistic process where the reader uses context and schema to predict and confirm meanings. The interactive model integrates aspects of bottom-up and top-down models, recognizing the flexible use of graphophonic, syntactic, and semantic cues. Emerging models emphasize the roles of schema, inference, prior knowledge, and the reader's goals in the meaning-making process.
The document discusses the process and benefits of reading. It describes reading as a complex cognitive process involving decoding symbols to derive meaning through interaction between the text and reader. There are three main theories of reading comprehension: schema theory involving prior knowledge, mental model theory creating a story in one's head, and proposition theory constructing main ideas. The benefits of reading include mental stimulation, stress reduction, knowledge gain, vocabulary expansion, memory improvement, analytical thinking, focus, better writing skills, tranquility, and free entertainment. Overall, reading provides a variety of cognitive benefits and is an efficient way to learn.
The document discusses several theoretical models of reading:
- The traditional view sees reading as decoding written symbols into sounds with meaning residing in the text.
- The cognitive view sees reading as an interactive process where the reader makes predictions using background knowledge.
- The metacognitive view sees reading as involving thinking about one's reading process and using strategies like setting a purpose.
It also provides tips for implementing reading theories with examples like preparing students with background information, discussing the reading purpose, and encouraging active reading techniques during the reading process.
The document discusses the bottom-up, or part-to-whole, model of the reading process proposed by Gough. According to this model, reading involves hierarchically processing text from small parts like letters and sounds to larger units like words, sentences, and full comprehension. The model believes readers must first identify visual features, link them to letters, then words, and finally build understanding of sentences and full texts. However, the bottom-up model has been criticized for underestimating the role of readers' prior knowledge and expectations in processing text.
The document provides several reading strategies and motivation techniques for teachers to use to engage students and improve reading skills, such as using graphic organizers, building on prior knowledge, focusing on student abilities rather than disabilities, incorporating mastery experiences, and strategies like read alouds, vocabulary instruction, prediction activities, and review games. The strategies are meant to build student self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for reading.
1. The document discusses various approaches to developing reading skills in a second language, including language-based, skill/strategy-based, and schema-based approaches.
2. It examines characteristics of fluent and less fluent second language readers, focusing on vocabulary size, awareness of text structure, use of reading strategies, and automaticity of language processing.
3. Recent research emphasizes the importance of building learners' vocabulary and automatic language processing abilities to facilitate successful reading in a second language.
Here are the key characteristics of emergent literacy skills in the different stages:
Oral Skills: Early emergent - Read aloud, storytelling, verbal requests. Emergent - Growing oral language, pleasure in words. Beginning - Self-corrected speech, vocabulary. Almost fluent - Language fluency, pleasure in language. Fluent - Increased vocabulary, appreciation for speech.
Reading Skills: Early emergent - Concept of print, naming, picture reading, enjoyment. Emergent - Concept of print, environmental print, letter sounds. Beginning - Additional recognition skills and meaning. Almost fluent - Word recognition, meaning, varied purposes. Fluent - Decoding, comprehension, critical reading.
Writing Skills: Early emer
Good readers are more strategic than poor readers and use multiple techniques before, during, and after reading for comprehension. Students with learning disabilities often struggle with reading comprehension due to issues with decoding, fluency, and being inactive learners. However, their comprehension can improve with direct instruction of strategies like monitoring background knowledge, summarizing, and self-questioning. For older students with decoding difficulties, teachers can provide explicit instruction in decoding multisyllabic words and teaching Greek and Latin roots to facilitate reading.
The document discusses promoting reading among students and provides principles and strategies for teaching reading. It recommends encouraging students to read often and extensively for pleasure and language improvement. Some suggested activities include establishing a classroom library, book clubs, scanning exercises, and having students respond to content rather than just focusing on construction. The document also analyzes the sequence of a sample reading lesson.
Reading is a process in many forms. One of these is the cognitive form where the process is more concerned on the processes of the brain while doing the activity.
This document provides information on teaching reading through five components: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It discusses techniques for each component, including phonemic awareness activities, teaching the alphabetic principle through letter sounds and blending, measuring fluency, direct vocabulary instruction, and seven comprehension strategies. The document also summarizes six core developmental reading approaches and several other instructional methods.
This document discusses and compares four main approaches to teaching beginning readers:
1) The phonics approach teaches letter sounds and blending.
2) The look-and-say method has students recognize whole words through flashcards.
3) The language experience approach uses students' own drawings and words.
4) The context support method uses books with longer sentences on one page and shorter versions on the facing page. All four methods can be combined to engage students and support their reading development.
This document provides background information and strategies for improving reading comprehension. It discusses the differences between good and poor readers, reasons for lack of comprehension, and troubleshooting tips. Specific strategies are organized around increasing interest and concentration, vocabulary, and understanding organization. The document emphasizes that readers should identify causes of lack of understanding and use appropriate strategies, such as previewing, self-monitoring, and summarizing.
This document discusses reading and reflecting on texts. It provides guidance on how to effectively read texts, reflect on what was read, and write reviews and reports. Some key points include:
- Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning, and is important for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information.
- Reflecting on texts allows students to internalize and summarize information in their own words, and add their own thoughts and analysis.
- Writing reports and reviews involves collecting basic information about the text, providing a summary, stating one's views, and discussing educational implications and outcomes.
- Suggested activities include individual and group reading, discussion, narrating related experiences, and
The document discusses expert reading strategies that allow readers to actively monitor and improve their comprehension. These strategies include activating prior knowledge, summarizing, monitoring comprehension and clarifying misunderstandings, visualizing content, questioning, inferring, and interacting with the text based on difficulty and personal skills. Teaching these strategies can help both expert and struggling readers. The document also discusses how writing about a text can improve reading performance and develop literacy skills. For older students, teaching reading and writing together helps develop more knowledge.
1. The document discusses strategies for improving reading proficiency in career and technical education (CTE) classrooms. It outlines three phases of the reading process: pre-reading strategies to activate prior knowledge, active reading strategies to aid comprehension, and post-reading strategies for reflection and application.
2. Various reading tools are presented for each phase, such as K-W-L charts, vocabulary logs, and semantic maps. Suggestions are provided for promoting independent reading in CTE courses through reading centers, book clubs, and journals.
3. The goal is to help CTE students become more proficient readers by teaching reading strategies and incorporating reading activities into technical coursework. This will improve comprehension of content
A REFLECTIVE TEACHING IN THE USE OF CONTEXT IN READING TEXTSBintang Emas
The document discusses using context to improve reading comprehension for students learning English as a foreign language. It proposes using pictures, diagrams, and short stories to provide context that helps students understand words and texts. The key strategies discussed are using pictures to illustrate meanings, grouping vocabulary through semantic mapping, and encouraging guessing of meanings from context clues. The goal is to make reading more engaging and help students comprehend texts despite limited vocabulary knowledge in English.
Defining Comprehension Strategies and Instructional StrategiesMarilyn Velez
Comprehension strategies are behaviors used by students to aid understanding of texts at different thinking levels, from literal to critical. Instructional strategies are methods teachers use to support comprehension, including collaborative grouping and offering text choices. The lesson plan example used the synthesize strategy and collaborative grouping to develop critical thinking about character development. Both comprehension and instructional strategies are necessary to help all students become successful readers.
Defining comprehension strategies and instructional strategies WK3ASSGN HardenAangela8098
The document discusses various comprehension and instructional strategies that teachers can use to help students build reading comprehension skills. It defines comprehension strategies as techniques used by students to enhance their understanding of texts, such as metacognitive strategies to monitor their own thinking. Instructional strategies are methods used by teachers to assess comprehension, such as having students retell stories or reorder scrambled story elements. These strategies help engage students at different grade levels and address Common Core standards. Comprehension relies on both decoding skills and language comprehension, and teachers must support all aspects of reading development.
Walden University
Masters in Education Reading and Literacy Program
The Beginning Reader, Pre K-3
(EDUC - 6706R - 6)
Literate Environment Analysis Presentation
Week 7
Christy Thompson
The document discusses developmental reading and the reading process. It describes that reading is an interactive process between the writer and reader to derive meaning from text. It outlines several mental activities involved in reading, including word perception, comprehension, reaction, and assimilation of ideas. Several types of reading are also defined, such as skimming, scanning, exploratory, study, critical, and analytic reading. Finally, it discusses factors that affect the reading process, including social, psychological, physiological, perceptual, linguistic, and intellectual processes.
This document discusses strategies for teaching reading in science classes. It summarizes research showing that reading strategies are most effective when students read challenging texts and have reasons to use the strategies. When teachers work across subjects, students can practice strategies in different contexts. Content teachers should make their discipline's reading and writing conventions clear. Quality reading activities can support content learning as much as other activities. The document proposes identifying reading strategies used in other classes that could also help with science comprehension, and modeling their use through think-alouds.
The project requires that you research a topic that is connected to .docxstandfordabbot
The project requires that you research a topic that is connected to the content that we have studied in the class. Using five resources (journal, academic website, google scholar, etc.) published from 2011-2017, you will create an annotated bibliography that includes an introduction to the topic and a conclusion.
o Introduction: Discuss the topic, why it is of interest to you, and how it relates to this class.
o Annotated Bibliography: Include one per resource. You may use the following structure for each. If a website or online journal entry include the link. Use APA style when creating the reference.
o Conclusion: Summarize the articles and discuss what you learned through the articles. How will you use this information in the future.
Introduction
Annotated Bibliography for EDFN 645 Paper
Reference (Resource) 1:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 2:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 3:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 4:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 5:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Conclusion
subjects.
WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP
STUDENTS LEARN?
How are you reading this book? Are you underlining or highlighting key sentences? Are you taking
notes or summarizing? Are you discussing the main ideas with a classmate? Are you putting
the book under your pillow at night and hoping the information will somehow seep into your
mind? Students have used these and many other strategies ever since the invention of reading, and
such strategies have been studied almost as long. Even Aristotle wrote on the topic. Yet educational
psychologists are still debating which study strategies are most effective.
Research on effective study strategies is confusing at best. Few forms of studying are found
to be always effective, and fewer still are never effective. Clearly, the value of study strategies depends
on their specifics and on the uses to which they are put (Schunk, 2012). A generalization
about effective study strategies is that effective methods involve learners in reshaping the information,
not just rereading (Callender & McDaniel, 2009) or highlighting without consciously choosing
the most important information to highlight. Research on the most common study strategies
is summarized in the following sections.
Practice Tests
Perhaps the most effective study strategy is taking practice tests aligned with the real test to come.
Test taking, especially when tests require construc.
The document provides several reading strategies and motivation techniques for teachers to use to engage students and improve reading skills, such as using graphic organizers, building on prior knowledge, focusing on student abilities rather than disabilities, incorporating mastery experiences, and strategies like read alouds, vocabulary instruction, prediction activities, and review games. The strategies are meant to build student self-efficacy and intrinsic motivation for reading.
1. The document discusses various approaches to developing reading skills in a second language, including language-based, skill/strategy-based, and schema-based approaches.
2. It examines characteristics of fluent and less fluent second language readers, focusing on vocabulary size, awareness of text structure, use of reading strategies, and automaticity of language processing.
3. Recent research emphasizes the importance of building learners' vocabulary and automatic language processing abilities to facilitate successful reading in a second language.
Here are the key characteristics of emergent literacy skills in the different stages:
Oral Skills: Early emergent - Read aloud, storytelling, verbal requests. Emergent - Growing oral language, pleasure in words. Beginning - Self-corrected speech, vocabulary. Almost fluent - Language fluency, pleasure in language. Fluent - Increased vocabulary, appreciation for speech.
Reading Skills: Early emergent - Concept of print, naming, picture reading, enjoyment. Emergent - Concept of print, environmental print, letter sounds. Beginning - Additional recognition skills and meaning. Almost fluent - Word recognition, meaning, varied purposes. Fluent - Decoding, comprehension, critical reading.
Writing Skills: Early emer
Good readers are more strategic than poor readers and use multiple techniques before, during, and after reading for comprehension. Students with learning disabilities often struggle with reading comprehension due to issues with decoding, fluency, and being inactive learners. However, their comprehension can improve with direct instruction of strategies like monitoring background knowledge, summarizing, and self-questioning. For older students with decoding difficulties, teachers can provide explicit instruction in decoding multisyllabic words and teaching Greek and Latin roots to facilitate reading.
The document discusses promoting reading among students and provides principles and strategies for teaching reading. It recommends encouraging students to read often and extensively for pleasure and language improvement. Some suggested activities include establishing a classroom library, book clubs, scanning exercises, and having students respond to content rather than just focusing on construction. The document also analyzes the sequence of a sample reading lesson.
Reading is a process in many forms. One of these is the cognitive form where the process is more concerned on the processes of the brain while doing the activity.
This document provides information on teaching reading through five components: phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. It discusses techniques for each component, including phonemic awareness activities, teaching the alphabetic principle through letter sounds and blending, measuring fluency, direct vocabulary instruction, and seven comprehension strategies. The document also summarizes six core developmental reading approaches and several other instructional methods.
This document discusses and compares four main approaches to teaching beginning readers:
1) The phonics approach teaches letter sounds and blending.
2) The look-and-say method has students recognize whole words through flashcards.
3) The language experience approach uses students' own drawings and words.
4) The context support method uses books with longer sentences on one page and shorter versions on the facing page. All four methods can be combined to engage students and support their reading development.
This document provides background information and strategies for improving reading comprehension. It discusses the differences between good and poor readers, reasons for lack of comprehension, and troubleshooting tips. Specific strategies are organized around increasing interest and concentration, vocabulary, and understanding organization. The document emphasizes that readers should identify causes of lack of understanding and use appropriate strategies, such as previewing, self-monitoring, and summarizing.
This document discusses reading and reflecting on texts. It provides guidance on how to effectively read texts, reflect on what was read, and write reviews and reports. Some key points include:
- Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols to derive meaning, and is important for language acquisition, communication, and sharing information.
- Reflecting on texts allows students to internalize and summarize information in their own words, and add their own thoughts and analysis.
- Writing reports and reviews involves collecting basic information about the text, providing a summary, stating one's views, and discussing educational implications and outcomes.
- Suggested activities include individual and group reading, discussion, narrating related experiences, and
The document discusses expert reading strategies that allow readers to actively monitor and improve their comprehension. These strategies include activating prior knowledge, summarizing, monitoring comprehension and clarifying misunderstandings, visualizing content, questioning, inferring, and interacting with the text based on difficulty and personal skills. Teaching these strategies can help both expert and struggling readers. The document also discusses how writing about a text can improve reading performance and develop literacy skills. For older students, teaching reading and writing together helps develop more knowledge.
1. The document discusses strategies for improving reading proficiency in career and technical education (CTE) classrooms. It outlines three phases of the reading process: pre-reading strategies to activate prior knowledge, active reading strategies to aid comprehension, and post-reading strategies for reflection and application.
2. Various reading tools are presented for each phase, such as K-W-L charts, vocabulary logs, and semantic maps. Suggestions are provided for promoting independent reading in CTE courses through reading centers, book clubs, and journals.
3. The goal is to help CTE students become more proficient readers by teaching reading strategies and incorporating reading activities into technical coursework. This will improve comprehension of content
A REFLECTIVE TEACHING IN THE USE OF CONTEXT IN READING TEXTSBintang Emas
The document discusses using context to improve reading comprehension for students learning English as a foreign language. It proposes using pictures, diagrams, and short stories to provide context that helps students understand words and texts. The key strategies discussed are using pictures to illustrate meanings, grouping vocabulary through semantic mapping, and encouraging guessing of meanings from context clues. The goal is to make reading more engaging and help students comprehend texts despite limited vocabulary knowledge in English.
Defining Comprehension Strategies and Instructional StrategiesMarilyn Velez
Comprehension strategies are behaviors used by students to aid understanding of texts at different thinking levels, from literal to critical. Instructional strategies are methods teachers use to support comprehension, including collaborative grouping and offering text choices. The lesson plan example used the synthesize strategy and collaborative grouping to develop critical thinking about character development. Both comprehension and instructional strategies are necessary to help all students become successful readers.
Defining comprehension strategies and instructional strategies WK3ASSGN HardenAangela8098
The document discusses various comprehension and instructional strategies that teachers can use to help students build reading comprehension skills. It defines comprehension strategies as techniques used by students to enhance their understanding of texts, such as metacognitive strategies to monitor their own thinking. Instructional strategies are methods used by teachers to assess comprehension, such as having students retell stories or reorder scrambled story elements. These strategies help engage students at different grade levels and address Common Core standards. Comprehension relies on both decoding skills and language comprehension, and teachers must support all aspects of reading development.
Walden University
Masters in Education Reading and Literacy Program
The Beginning Reader, Pre K-3
(EDUC - 6706R - 6)
Literate Environment Analysis Presentation
Week 7
Christy Thompson
The document discusses developmental reading and the reading process. It describes that reading is an interactive process between the writer and reader to derive meaning from text. It outlines several mental activities involved in reading, including word perception, comprehension, reaction, and assimilation of ideas. Several types of reading are also defined, such as skimming, scanning, exploratory, study, critical, and analytic reading. Finally, it discusses factors that affect the reading process, including social, psychological, physiological, perceptual, linguistic, and intellectual processes.
This document discusses strategies for teaching reading in science classes. It summarizes research showing that reading strategies are most effective when students read challenging texts and have reasons to use the strategies. When teachers work across subjects, students can practice strategies in different contexts. Content teachers should make their discipline's reading and writing conventions clear. Quality reading activities can support content learning as much as other activities. The document proposes identifying reading strategies used in other classes that could also help with science comprehension, and modeling their use through think-alouds.
The project requires that you research a topic that is connected to .docxstandfordabbot
The project requires that you research a topic that is connected to the content that we have studied in the class. Using five resources (journal, academic website, google scholar, etc.) published from 2011-2017, you will create an annotated bibliography that includes an introduction to the topic and a conclusion.
o Introduction: Discuss the topic, why it is of interest to you, and how it relates to this class.
o Annotated Bibliography: Include one per resource. You may use the following structure for each. If a website or online journal entry include the link. Use APA style when creating the reference.
o Conclusion: Summarize the articles and discuss what you learned through the articles. How will you use this information in the future.
Introduction
Annotated Bibliography for EDFN 645 Paper
Reference (Resource) 1:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 2:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 3:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 4:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Reference (Resource) 5:
Summary of the Article (Not the Abstract):
How does this reference relate to the topic of your paper?
Conclusion
subjects.
WHAT STUDY STRATEGIES HELP
STUDENTS LEARN?
How are you reading this book? Are you underlining or highlighting key sentences? Are you taking
notes or summarizing? Are you discussing the main ideas with a classmate? Are you putting
the book under your pillow at night and hoping the information will somehow seep into your
mind? Students have used these and many other strategies ever since the invention of reading, and
such strategies have been studied almost as long. Even Aristotle wrote on the topic. Yet educational
psychologists are still debating which study strategies are most effective.
Research on effective study strategies is confusing at best. Few forms of studying are found
to be always effective, and fewer still are never effective. Clearly, the value of study strategies depends
on their specifics and on the uses to which they are put (Schunk, 2012). A generalization
about effective study strategies is that effective methods involve learners in reshaping the information,
not just rereading (Callender & McDaniel, 2009) or highlighting without consciously choosing
the most important information to highlight. Research on the most common study strategies
is summarized in the following sections.
Practice Tests
Perhaps the most effective study strategy is taking practice tests aligned with the real test to come.
Test taking, especially when tests require construc.
The document discusses assessments and instruction used in a literacy unit for three students. Cognitive and noncognitive assessments were used to understand students' literacy development and interests. Texts for the unit included narratives, informational books, and online resources. A variety of strategies were taught to help students comprehend, critically analyze, and personally respond to texts. The goal was to create a balanced, individualized literacy program tailored to each student's needs and interests.
1. Getting to know students' interests, motivations, attitudes, and perceptions of reading is essential for effective literacy instruction. Assessments of cognitive skills and motivation can guide individualized instruction.
2. Choosing engaging texts based on student interests and ability levels, as well as supplemental non-fiction, can increase motivation. Technology and new literacies should also be incorporated.
3. Effective instruction incorporates interactive, critical, and responsive perspectives. Strategies like guided reading, think-alouds, and questioning help students become strategic, metacognitive, and independent readers.
1) The presentation analyzed 4 research-based literacy practices: getting to know learners, selecting texts, interactive literacy lessons, and critical/response perspectives.
2) For each practice, the presenter explained how it helped create a literate environment and provided a research source supporting the practice.
3) Key practices included understanding readers to engage them, using a literacy matrix to select diverse texts at appropriate levels, modeling reading skills through interactive lessons, and developing critical thinking through student discussion and writing responses.
The document discusses a literacy lesson presented in four parts. Part I describes assessments used to understand students' cognitive and noncognitive literacy development. Part II discusses selecting a balanced group of narrative, informational, and online texts based on student interest and assessment data. Part III explains how focusing on interactive strategies like predicting and comprehending fostered literacy. Part IV discusses how emphasizing critical thinking about perspectives and personal responses to text also supported literacy development.
This document discusses key aspects of early literacy instruction for beginning readers in pre-K through 3rd grade. It addresses the importance of understanding students' motivation and engagement with reading through assessments. Teachers should learn about students' interests and reading abilities in order to select appropriate texts at the right level. The document also discusses interactive, critical, and response perspectives for literacy instruction, emphasizing comprehension strategies, examining texts critically, and personal engagement with reading.
The unit uses a process model curriculum and constructivist learning theory. It focuses on how 9th grade students will learn about Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet through collaborative activities, games, and formative assessments. Students will analyze themes, characters, language, and develop their understanding of the play through group work, technology use, and connecting with peers. The goals are to expose students to Shakespeare in an engaging way and help them make sense of the complex text.
This document provides strategies and processes for effective reading at different levels. It discusses activities teachers can use before, during, and after reading to help students comprehend texts and practice reading strategies. Some key strategies mentioned include using graphic organizers and anticipation guides before reading, talking to the text and double entry journals during reading, and literature circles after reading. The purpose is to teach students a "toolkit" of approaches to help them actively engage with texts at an appropriate level for their language development.
The document discusses different perspectives and practices for literacy instruction in the classroom. It describes using assessment to understand students' literacy development and determine reading levels. Classroom assessments help identify strengths and weaknesses to guide instruction. The document also discusses selecting texts that engage students and promote comprehension, including a variety of linguistic, narrative, and informational texts. Interactive instruction is described to teach reading strategies and metacognition. The critical perspective is meant to develop critical thinking and value different opinions.
This document summarizes 10 research articles on teaching reading comprehension strategies. The articles discuss a variety of strategies such as activating prior knowledge, questioning, summarizing, self-monitoring, vocabulary instruction, and using graphic organizers. They also address the need for explicit instruction of strategies, integrating literacy instruction across subject areas, developing conceptual understanding, and scaffolding to help students apply strategies independently. Overall, the research highlighted effective comprehension instruction involves directly teaching reading strategies and ensuring students can select and apply strategies flexibly to improve understanding.
The study was carried out to determine the effect of stop, think and talk activities on the performance of students in reading comprehension in junior secondary schools in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. The study was carried out using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest research design. The target population of the study comprised of 16,925 JSII students. A sample size of 100 JSII students from two secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja, were purposely sampled in the study. Sixty five (65) students from Government Junior Secondary School, Apo and thirty five (35) from Government Junior Secondary School, Garki were used for the study. Both groups of students were taught for six (6) weeks. Government Junior Secondary School, Apo was assigned as the experimental group while Government Junior Secondary School, Garki was assigned as the control school. Students were pre-tested to establish their homogeneity before the commencement of the treatment. They were taught for six (6) weeks and were tested using retelling test as an instrument. Data collected from students’ test scores was analysed using mean and standard deviation, while t-test was used to test the formulated null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that “stop, think and talk” activities had significant effect on students’ performance in reading comprehension. In fact, the experimental group which was exposed to stop, think and talk activities had better understanding of the reading comprehension passages given to them. The result further revealed that students in experimental group were more active, responsive and paid more attention to details concerning the main ideas in the passages read. Based on the findings, it was recommended that teachers should be encouraged to use “stop, think and talk” activities in reading comprehension lessons. Such activities should be provided before, during and after every reading comprehension passage to enhance and facilitate students’ reading abilities. Curriculum planners should provide activities that would encourage students to “stop, think and talk” to make reading comprehension lesson more purposeful and meaningful.
This document provides an analysis of assessments and literacy lessons used with beginning readers. The author uses cognitive assessments like running records and writing samples, and noncognitive assessments like student interviews and surveys to understand students. Lessons incorporate interactive strategies like read alouds, guided reading, and KWL charts. Critical and response strategies include journaling, questioning the author, and connecting to personal experiences. Feedback is solicited from colleagues and families on insights gained and how the information could impact practices.
Deep Reading, CostBenefit, and the Construction of Meaning E.docxvickeryr87
Deep Reading, Cost/Benefit, and the Construction of Meaning: Enhancing Reading
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DEEP READING, COST/BENEFIT, AND THE CONSTRUCTION
OF MEANING: ENHANCING READING COMPREHENSION
AND DEEP LEARNING IN SOCIOLOGY COURSES*
Reading comprehension skill is often assumed by sociology instructors, yet
many college students seem to have marginal reading comprehension skills,
which may explain why fewer than half of them are actually doing the read
ing. Sanctions that force students to either read or to pay a price are based on
a rational choice model of behavior?a perspective that many students seem
to bring with them. However, deep reading?reading for long-term retention of
the material and for comprehension at a level that can be perspective
transforming?involves constructing meaning as one reads. Students need
help developing reading strategies that enhance this process. Moreover,
cost/benefit coercion of reading does not necessarily enhance construction of
meaning or deep-learning; indeed, it may reward minimalist or surface reading.
This essay is an excursion into theory on deep learning and the implications of
that theory for engaging students in reading. An assignment based on multiple
intelligences and fostering reading comprehension is suggested and some ini
tial data are provided regarding possible success of this strategy.
Judith C. Roberts
Hanover College
Keith A. Roberts
Hanover College
Reading is a complex process to which
sociologists have paid little attention, de
spite the fact that we do a great deal of it
and expect our students to do it before com
ing to classes. Although children learn the
mechanics of reading in the early elemen
tary grades, reading with understanding and
meaning is a skill that needs to be nurtured
over many years. The emphasis on "reading
to l.
This document provides an overview of literacy instruction for early readers. It discusses the importance of knowing literacy learners through assessments to understand their reading abilities and motivation. Effective literacy environments include selecting texts at an appropriate level using a literacy matrix, as well as lessons incorporating interactive, critical, and response perspectives. The interactive perspective teaches strategic reading, while the critical perspective examines multiple viewpoints and the response perspective allows personal reactions. Overall, the presentation emphasizes using a variety of assessments and instructional strategies to engage students as developing readers.
A Genre-Based Approach To The Teaching Of Report-WritingBrooke Heidt
This document discusses using a genre-based approach to teach report writing to students learning English for specific purposes. It describes analyzing the structure of report genres to identify the key components and rules. The document outlines how a program was developed to provide structured feedback on student reports based on these genre conventions. The program standardized the feedback and ensured it addressed all necessary elements. This approach aimed to both teach students report writing structures and facilitate scientific thinking.
1How Does the Use of Reading Strategies Improve Achieve.docxaryan532920
This study examined the use of reading strategies to improve science achievement for 22 ESL students in 7th grade. Several strategies were implemented, including vocabulary books, anticipation guides, concept maps, and fill-in-the-blank reviews. Observations found that the strategies increased student engagement and comprehension during reading assignments. Student feedback indicated the strategies, especially fill-in-the-blank reviews, helped them learn and prepare for assessments. The results suggest reading strategies can positively impact language minority students' science learning.
1How Does the Use of Reading Strategies Improve Achieve.docxjoyjonna282
1
How Does the Use of Reading Strategies Improve
Achievement in Science for Language Minority
Students?
Shannon Hicok
Glasgow Middle School
Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools
Submitted June 2000
Introduction
Two years ago, I began teaching science at Ellen Glasgow Middle School
in Fairfax County, Virginia. I realized right away that my language minority
students, especially those still in an English as a Second Language (ESL)
program, needed differentiated instruction in their mainstreamed science class.
The question then became, “How do I meet the unique needs of this population?”
This is a question with which I have continued to struggle over the past two
years.
I recognized that my ESL students had a great deal of difficulty reading
their science textbook. Although some students had success with pronunciation
and word recognition, adequate comprehension eluded them. Working with an
ESL teacher, I began to make accommodations in my instruction that seemed to
increase understanding during whole class and small group activities. However, I
was still puzzled as to how to help these students during lessons that required
individual reading.
In the 1999-2000 school year, I have had the privilege of working with a
small group of researchers who also teach language minority students. During
discussion, we agreed that improving literacy for these students should be our
primary goal and the focus of our research. Based on the difficulty my students
have experienced with reading comprehension, this is the piece of the literacy
puzzle on which I have focused.
Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study was to identify how the implementation of
various reading strategies improved achievement in science for ESL students. I
was particularly interested in their use in the science classroom. Using data
collected from this study, I hoped to make better decisions about the type of
instruction my language minority students needed. The end result was more
confident, successful learners.
Scientific vocabulary development is an area in which language minority
students historically struggle. In addition to learning new technical terminology,
students must deal with the varied use of familiar terms. For instance, in science
class, the words table and compound have a very different meaning than they do
in most other classrooms (Chamot, 1994). For these reasons, I decided that one
of the strategies chosen for the study would specifically target vocabulary
development.
2
The remainder of the strategies chosen for the study were intended to
help make reading a more active endeavor. I chose these strategies with the
hopes that they would help students comprehend written, scientific, factual
material.
Literature Review
Much research has been done regarding the effectiveness of using
learning strategies to promote literacy. The basic premise behind this research is
that students can benefit from t ...
This document summarizes Kolb's Learning Style Inventory Version 3.1 (KLSI 3.1), which is based on Kolb's experiential learning theory. The inventory helps individuals identify their preferred learning styles based on how they process experiences. The revised KLSI 3.1 includes new norms based on a larger, more diverse sample size. It maintains the same format, items, scoring, and interpretive booklet as the previous version.
The passage describes a bet made between a rich man named Haptom and his servant Arha, where Arha agrees to stand naked on a mountain overnight without fire to stay warm in exchange for a farm if he survives. With help from a wise old man, Arha watches a fire in the village below to stay warm and survives the night, but Haptom refuses to pay, leading to a dispute resolved when the old man proves his point with a feast.
The document is an experiment worksheet that asks the student to record the materials used, method, observations through drawings, and conclusion. It guides the student to document the setup, results, and analysis of an experiment on the effects of sunlight on some materials.
1. The document provides instructions for students to read about photosynthesis and prepare to teach their group. They are to draw examples of autotrophs and heterotrophs, define the terms, and explain that nearly all energy for living things comes from the sun.
2. Students are to write the photosynthesis equation, read about ATP and ADP, draw their conversion, and explain it.
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Bacteria Growing Experiments in Petri Dishes.docxKyle Guzik
This document provides instructions for conducting experiments to grow and observe bacteria cultures in petri dishes. It describes how to prepare nutrient-rich agar growth medium and sterile petri dishes. Three experiment types are outlined: 1) direct contact experiments using hands or objects to inoculate dishes, 2) collecting bacteria samples from surfaces using swabs to inoculate dishes, and 3) testing the effectiveness of antibacterial agents by placing treated paper disks on inoculated dishes and observing zones of inhibited growth. Proper sterile technique and observation of growth over time are emphasized to safely conduct informative bacteria culture experiments.
This document contains summaries of Kyle Guzik's Honors Engineering Biology lessons for the week of September 12, 2011. The lessons covered topics such as photosynthesis and aerobic respiration, ATP molecules, food webs, and biogeochemical cycles. Activities included analyzing equations, tracing energy flow, identifying impacts of removing organisms from food chains, and a simulation of a penguin population to demonstrate carrying capacity and limiting factors. Assessments included quizzes, homework assignments, and a lab report practice.
The document provides details of Mr. K. Guzik's honors engineering biology lessons for the week of September 19, 2011. Each daily lesson outlines the content standards, essential questions, student objectives, assessments, and learning activities. The lessons focus on topics like balance in nature, biogeochemical cycles, photosynthesis and respiration, energy flow through ecosystems, and scientific inquiry skills. Formative assessments include warm-ups, essays, and quizzes. Learning activities involve guided notes, group work, videos, and a study guide.
This document outlines a multi-day biology lesson plan for a 9th-10th grade honors class focusing on cellular reproduction and genetics. Over the course of four 53-minute lessons, students will learn about DNA and RNA structure, the central dogma of molecular biology, mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian inheritance, genetic engineering, and more. Assessment will include warm-ups, vocabulary assignments, quizzes, and evaluating student progress on science fair projects. The goal is for students to understand key concepts and be able to explain cellular processes, interpret genetic patterns, and discuss applications and implications of biotechnology.
This document contains vocabulary terms related to ecology including population, community, ecosystem, biosphere, biotic factor, abiotic factor, habitat, population density, population distribution, immigration, emigration, exponential growth, limiting factor, carrying capacity, density dependent factor, density independent factor, and biotic potential.
This biology lesson focuses on comparing microscopic organisms in cells. Students will use microslide viewers and slides of human cells and soil organisms to observe and identify different cell types and soil life. The lesson involves students drawing what they observe under the microscope and answering questions to test their understanding of cell structures and functions. Assessment will include a discussion of observations and completing a worksheet.
This document provides a summary of Kyle Guzik's education and experience. Some key points include:
- Kyle Guzik is currently pursuing an M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Southern Mississippi, expected in 2024.
- He has over 15 years of experience in education, conservation work, library science, and the arts.
- His experience includes positions as a teacher, crew leader, librarian, and art instructor at various schools and organizations.
- Kyle Guzik has an extensive educational background including degrees from the University of Chicago, College of William & Mary, and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Guzik Enrichment Lesson Plan 12_7_20.docxKyle Guzik
This enrichment lesson plan outlines art activities for students over three days. On Monday, students will learn about animals by creating animal masks and collages. Tuesday's lesson involves fall leaf paintings using crayon resist techniques. On Wednesday, students will study form and color through a cut and paste vase with flowers collage. Counselors will assist students with the activities and help monitor the classroom. The lessons are designed for different age groups from K-8.
Guzik Art Enrichment Lesson Plan 2_22_21.docKyle Guzik
The enrichment lesson plan outlines art activities for students across four days. On Monday, students will create covers for their blank art books using collage and drawing. On Tuesday, students will practice color mixing and control using tempura paint to create paintings. Wednesday will involve continuing work on art books, taking inspiration from comic books. On Thursday, students will create botanical watercolor paintings by first outlining with pencil or pastel then painting the shapes. Counselors will assist students and help monitor activities each day. The lesson is designed for all age groups from K-8.
Kyle Guzik has extensive experience in education, conservation work, and wilderness first aid. He has a Master's degree in Library and Information Science and is pursuing a PhD in Art Education. Guzik has worked as a teacher, AmeriCorps crew member, field instructor, and residential advisor. He has numerous certifications in wilderness first aid, CPR, and teaching.
The John De La Howe School was founded in 1797 and is now a public residential school for agriculture serving 63 students. It is located in Lethia, SC. The school library plays an important role, where students conduct research, complete assignments, and study. The school's mission is to prepare students to use information literacy and evaluate knowledge to become leaders. As librarian, duties include coordinating technology lending, conducting teacher training, and assisting students. Plans include expanding the library's collection, acquiring technology like laptops and digital textbooks, and establishing a technology center for activities like 3D printing.
Kyle Guzik is pursuing an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi expected in 2022. He holds an MA.Ed in Gifted Education from the College of William & Mary and an AB in Art from the University of Chicago. Guzik has experience as a teacher, researcher, and graduate assistant. His career has focused on education, art instruction, and assessment scoring. He is proficient in various software programs and holds teaching certifications in Virginia and Louisiana.
The American Library Association (ALA) (2016) defines censorship as a “change in the access status of material, based on the content of the work and made by a governing authority or its representatives. Such changes include exclusion, restriction, removal, or age/grade level changes” (para 2). Intellectual Freedom may be defined as:
the right of every individual to both seek and receive information from all points of view without restriction. It provides for free access to all expressions of ideas through which any and all sides of a question, cause or movement may be explored (ALA, 2016, para 2).
This document provides summaries and citations for several key texts in critical theory, cultural studies, Marxism, and media studies. It includes summaries of works by Gramsci, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault, Debord, Hall, Barthes, McLuhan, Morgan & Purje, Mulvey, Halberstam, Lacan, Foucault, Tavin and Tavin, Marx and Engels, Hill-Collins, Dyer, Habermas, and Jameson that discuss concepts like ideology, spectacle, panopticism, subjectivation, encoding/decoding, myth, media, queer theory, and postmodernism.
Theory of Social Change and Approach to InquiryKyle Guzik
1. The document discusses the author's theory of social change, which draws on the Hegelian dialectic model of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. The author analyzes Auguste Comte's positivism as an example of this dialectical process at work.
2. While the author takes an objectivist, naturalistic epistemological approach, they acknowledge criticisms of scientism leveled at empiricism. The author argues their view is consistent with psychophysical reductionism and does not require mind-body dualism like religious views.
3. The author concludes different fields like anthropology, psychology, and physics can be viewed as having different levels of resolution within a reductionist methodology for understanding social change
Kyle Guzik is applying for a Stack Technician position at the Library of Virginia. He has extensive educational experience, including a B.A., M.A.Ed., and some doctoral study. He also has over 2 years of full-time volunteer experience providing customer service and cash handling. Guzik has 5 years of teaching experience and 1 year each working in a biology lab, educational testing, and with students with disabilities. He is comfortable with various software programs and currently pursuing his M.L.I.S. Guzik believes his qualifications and educational background make him a strong candidate for the position.
Kyle Guzik is pursuing an MLIS from the University of Southern Mississippi expected in 2022. He holds an MA in Gifted Education from the College of William & Mary and an AB in Art from the University of Chicago. Guzik has worked as an art teacher for the YMCA since 2020 and previously taught science and art at the middle and high school levels. He is published and has presented his research on gifted art education at national conferences. Guzik's skills include teaching K-12 students, research, and experience in libraries, museums, and education.
This presentation includes basic of PCOS their pathology and treatment and also Ayurveda correlation of PCOS and Ayurvedic line of treatment mentioned in classics.
How to Add Chatter in the odoo 17 ERP ModuleCeline George
In Odoo, the chatter is like a chat tool that helps you work together on records. You can leave notes and track things, making it easier to talk with your team and partners. Inside chatter, all communication history, activity, and changes will be displayed.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Main Java[All of the Base Concepts}.docxadhitya5119
This is part 1 of my Java Learning Journey. This Contains Custom methods, classes, constructors, packages, multithreading , try- catch block, finally block and more.
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How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
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This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
1. Running head: THE AUTHOR SAYS/I SAY READING STRATEGY 1
The Author Says/I Say Reading Strategy
Kyle A. Guzik
The College of William & Mary
2. THE AUTHOR SAYS/I SAY READING STRATEGY 2
The Author Says/I Say Reading Strategy
Research Summary
The Author Says/I Say (ASIS) strategy uses a chart to guide students in constructing
meaning from a written text (Beuhl, 2014). A teacher using this strategy should begin by
introducing the ASIS chart. The chart has four sections that elicit five comprehension processes:
“questioning (‘I wonder…’), determining importance (‘The author says…’), making connections
to prior knowledge and inferring (‘I say…’), and synthesizing new understandings (‘And so…’)”
(Buehl, 2014, p. 76). The teacher should then model the strategy with a think-aloud (Buehl,
2014). The teacher should talk his or her way through the text and model how his or her thinking
is modified as if in conversation with the author. The students should then be provided with
multiple opportunities to practice use of the strategy (Buehl, 2014). The chart can be modified to
focus directly on argumentation. In this variation the “I wonder...” section is removed so that
there are three sections: “The author argues…,” “I say…,” and “And so….” The ASIS strategy
can be further modified through a variation called the “Say Something Read-Aloud” (Buehl,
2014, p. 77). Students are placed in pairs and one student reads a paragraph from the text. The
other student listens to the reader and then says something about the text. This could include a
comment on interesting material, making a prediction, wondering about something stated,
identification of confusing information, or a relation of information in the paragraph to personal
experiences or background knowledge (Buehl, 2014). The students take turns switching roles as
they read the text. This simulates the act of conversation between the reader and the author. The
advantages of the ASIS strategy include the following: “students are continually reminded that
reading involves a mental conversation between an author and a reader,” “students are provided
with cues that guide them into accessing implicit layers of meaning that necessitate inferential
3. THE AUTHOR SAYS/I SAY READING STRATEGY 3
thinking,” and “students verbalize their understandings as they sum what they have gained from
their reading.” This paper will identify insights gained from three studies that relate to the
cognitive processes involved in the ASIS strategy for the purpose of explaining why the strategy
will aid students in learning.
The Say Something Read-Aloud variation of the ASIS strategy engages students in
dialogue about the text. Ketch (2005) provides a framework for understanding how engaging
students in conversation aids comprehension. Ketch (2005) explains “students actively engaged
in the conversation process can, over time, become reflective, critical thinkers” (p. 8). Ketch
would agree with Buehl that effective implementation of conversation in the classroom requires
teachers to model cognitive strategies and provide opportunities to practice their use. If
implemented correctly, conversation can foster acquisition of comprehension (Ketch, 2005).
Ketch (2005) explains that readers make connections during the process of
comprehension. Ketch (2005) explains, “it is these connections to the text, to the world, to
background information, and to experiences (schema) that make readers feel like the characters,
connect to the story, or remember similar experiences” (p. 8). In addition, readers ask questions
while reading. According to Ketch (2005), “readers come up with their own questions about
what they have read. These questions guide the reader to search for additional information.
Students should be asked, on a regular basis, to become aware of their own questions” (p. 9).
Determining importance is also key to comprehension. Readers sort through text and take note
of relevant information while disregarding extraneous facts (Ketch, 2005). Ketch (2005)
elaborates, “conversation about what is important helps students sort through all the hierarchy of
information presented in the text” (p. 9). Ketch has not conducted formalized studies but
defends her arguments with “observations, intuitions, reflections, reading, conversations, action
4. THE AUTHOR SAYS/I SAY READING STRATEGY 4
research,” and thoughts gained from 30 years of experience working with kindergarten through
sixth-grade students. For Ketch (2005) conversation is a mechanism which enriches and refines
one’s knowledge: “hearing ideas discussed orally from another’s point of view increases
understanding, memory, and monitoring of one’s own thinking. The oral process helps students
clarify and solidify their thoughts” (p. 10). These benefits suggest a direct course of action:
“classrooms should be places where students think out loud and are asked by the teacher to share
why and how they came to their beliefs” (Ketch, 2005, p. 10).
Ketch provides specific observational evidence for the important role of conversation in
comprehension. Ketch (2005) visited “a classroom of fifth-grade students in a school with a
98% free and reduced-cost lunch classification” (p. 11). Ketch observed an effective social
studies teacher who made his students aware of cognitive strategies such as making connections,
determining importance, and asking questions, and modeled effective use of these strategies in
conversations about a text. The students studied the industrial revolution and read a passage
about the emergence of assembly lines in businesses. After reading the passage, a student
“inferred that that the United States was changed due to workers lining up for work” (Ketch,
2005, p. 11). The teacher led a group discussion in which students raised their hands and
explained why they agreed or disagreed with this inference. They students then discussed the
text in pairs. The ensuing conversations allowed the students to clarify and answer questions
about the text. Some students related the text to their personal experiences; they had parents or
relatives who worked on assembly lines in factories. The opportunities for reflection afforded by
the conversations allowed the students to develop a much more nuanced understanding of the
role assembly lines played in influencing the development of American industry. Ketch (2005)
notes “the teacher could have easily told the students the meaning of the passage but they would
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not have engaged in the thinking process or practiced how to use the cognitive strategies to gain
meaning” (p. 11). Implementation of conversation had the added benefit of engaging all students
in the class in the lesson.
The Say Something Read-Aloud strategy is a specific method for developing student
conversation about a text. This strategy is effective because the act of conversation allows
students to use specific cognitive strategies. Instruction that incorporates conversation increases
student engagement and allows students to comprehend a text with greater depth as well as an
independence that develops as a consequence of the students figuring out the meaning of the text
on their own rather than by passively receiving meaning explicitly provided to them by the
teacher. The basic ASIS strategy can be modified to encourage conversation by having students
work in pairs and discuss their reasons for responding to each section in the chart.
Better understanding of the effective implementation of the ASIS strategy can also be
gained by making comparisons between this strategy and a strategy that uses similar cognitive
processes: the Observation/Inference (OI) chart. Nokes (2008) identifies the OI chart as a tool
that is effective for increasing student comprehension of nontraditional texts. Nokes (2008)
described how archeologists read the text of unusual polished bones to make the inference that
the bones were polished by the rough interiors of prehistoric cooking pots. These archaeologists
made careful, detailed, and specific observations. They then “used their observations and their
background knowledge to make logical inferences that explained what they observed” (Nokes,
2008, p. 538). In the “Author Says…” section of the ASIS strategy, students make observations
about facts or claims presented by the author. In the “I say…” section students use their
background knowledge to relate the content of the text to their personal experiences. In the
“And so…” section students relate the author’s ideas to their own; this process may include the
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creation of inferences. Students make inferences when they “read between the lines to sense the
underlying meanings that are conveyed implicitly by a text” (Nokes, 2008, p. 540). Buehl gives
limited guidance on the specifics of how students should complete each section of the ASIS
chart. One way to make this strategy more meaningful for the purposes of comprehension is to
encourage students to explicitly develop inferences.
How can this been done effectively with the ASIS chart? First teachers should be aware
of the following relationships between good readers and the use of inferences. Proficient readers
base their inferences on information found in the text (Nokes, 2008). In addition, proficient
readers draw on appropriate background knowledge when making inferences (Nokes, 2008).
Proficient readers also make inferences that are parsimonious, that is, they find simple
explanations for what they observe in the text (Nokes, 2008). These three relationships give an
idea of what teachers should look for when evaluating student inferences found in an ASIS chart.
Teachers should also consider how the advantages of the OI chart can be similar to those
of the ASIS strategy. The OI chart provides visible reading instruction (Nokes, 2008). This
means that the OI chart allows a teacher to provide explicit instruction in making inferences.
The OI chart helps students think deeply about a text (Nokes, 2008). In addition, the OI chart
helps students become metacognitive (Nokes, 2008). It can be argued that the ASIS strategy can
have similar advantages if teachers encourage students to describe observations in the “Author
says…” and “I say…” sections, and to create inferences in the “And so…” section. This will
require the students to use similar cognitive processes as the students would use when filling out
the “Observations” and “Inferences” sections of the OI chart. However, this will only occur if
the teacher models how to make inferences in the “And so…” section. Students should not use
the “And so…” section to simply restate and summarize their observations. The OI chart
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provides instruction on making inferences, models the making of inferences, and provides an
opportunity for guided practice, and independent practice of making inferences (Nokes, 2008).
The ASIS strategy can also perform these functions.
Nokes provides evidence for the effectiveness of the OI chart by describing its use in a
class he taught on civil rights. Nokes (2008) had his students create an OI chart after viewing
Norman Rockwell’s 1967 painting Moving In. Nokes describes his students’ observations of the
painting:
Students observe that this painting shows a moving van in a neighborhood with
well-groomed yards and nice houses. Furniture is being moved out of the van. In
front of the van a well-dressed African American boy and girl stand facing two
white boys and a white girl who are in their play clothes. The white children are
leaning forward, with curious stares. The black children are leaning backward
with curious stares. The black boy is holding a baseball mitt. One of the white
boys also holds a baseball mitt and is dressed in a baseball uniform. The black
girl is holding a white cat. One of the white boys is holding a black dog on a
leash. (Nokes, 2008, p. 548)
The class infers that “the black children are moving into a white, upper class neighborhood,”
“there appears to be some tension between these new children and the children who live in the
neighborhood,” and that “this tension may be based on race” (Nokes, 2008, p. 543). Nokes then
directs the class to use their observations and inferences about the narrative of the painting to
make inferences about the state of race relations in this time period. The students can then use
their charts to write a paragraph “explaining what lessons this painting has for us today and how
it applies to our lives” (Nokes, 2008, p. 544). Like the OI chart, the Author Says/I Say strategy
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uses a simple chart format. However, both strategies can be used to document comprehension of
complex topics in a text. Both strategies can be paired with a summative writing task to further
expand comprehension.
Teachers who use the ASIS strategy to explore an author’s arguments should be mindful
of the way readers understand and remember arguments. Britt and Larson (2002) found that
presentation order affects the reading rate and later recall of simple two-clause arguments. “An
informal argument entails providing one or more reasons (datum or premise) with the intent of
persuading the audience to accept the truth of a refutable conclusion (claim)” (Britt & Larson,
2002, p. 795). Britt and Larson found that it makes a difference whether the claim or the reasons
supporting the claim are presented first.
Britt and Larson (2002) conducted three experiments with undergraduate students at
Northern Illinois University. They created sample text with either a claim-first argument
(“recycling should be federally mandated because recycling saves the environment”) or a reason-
first argument (“because recycling saves the environment, recycling should be federally
mandated”) (Britt & Larson, 2002, p. 798). The students read a series of these arguments on a
computer that showed them one argument at a time. The students were then “given a surprise
cued recall task to measure how the presentation order of the arguments influenced their memory
of the argument elements” (Britt & Larson, 2002, p. 798). Britt and Larson found it took the
students significantly less time to read the arguments ordered with the claim first. They were
also able to remember more about the arguments they had read when the arguments were ordered
claim first. According to Britt and Larson (2002) “this finding supports the hypothesis that the
representation of argumentative texts is focused around a claim” (p. 801).
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In their second experiment Britt and Larson (2002) tested “whether the difference
between argument presentation orders was the result of the reason being syntactically
subordinated by manipulating the explicitness of the connection between the argument elements”
(p. 802). They needed to check whether the presence of a connector such as “because”
influenced participants reading of the arguments. An example claim-first argument with this
condition controlled reads “recycling should be federally mandated. Recycling saves the
environment” (Britt & Larson, 2002, p. 803). An example reason-first argument reads
“recycling saves the environment. Recycling should be federally mandated” (Britt & Larson,
2002, p. 803). Britt and Larson were then able to investigate presentation order alongside
connector explicitness (the inclusion or exclusion of the connector). Britt and Larson (2002)
again found that claim-first arguments were read faster and better remembered.
In their third experiment Britt and Larson (2002) examined “whether the quality of a cue
can influence claim identification” (p. 804). Consider the difference between (1) the national
highway speed limit is 65 miles per hour; (2) the national highway speed limit is probably 65
miles per hour; (3) the national highway speed limit should be 65 miles per hour (Britt & Larson,
2002, p. 804). The cue word “should” indicates the presence of an argument and Britt and
Larson wanted to see if this activated the participants’ argument schemata. The authors created a
series of argument statements to investigate the relationship between argument order (reason-
first vs. claim –first order) and claim marker (with “should” vs. without “should”) (Britt &
Larson, 2002). Britt and Larson (2002) found that “when claims are marked with a modal that
clearly identifies it as a claim, arguments are read more quickly and recalled better in claim-first
order” (p. 806). An important conclusion drawn from analysis of the three experiments is that
“argument processing is initiated by the parsing of a clause or sentence. If any semantic,
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syntactic and pragmatic cues are present to signal that a claim has been encountered, then an
argument schema is activated” (Britt & Larson, 2002, p. 807).
This study has important implications for teachers using the ASIS strategy to investigate
arguments. The study indicates that readers will be more likely to remember the details of an
argument when the argument is presented claim first. Teachers should therefore encourage
students completing the “Author argues…” section to find the authors claim first and then list
any reasons that the author gives to support the argument. The chart should also be filled out
from left to right with “Author argues…” first, followed by “I say…” and then “And so….” This
procedure makes it more likely that students will remember and comprehend arguments they
have read in the text by activating the students’ schemata for argument processing.
Results
The lesson was successful in that it provided evidence of the class’ reactions to the
reading strategy; however, all of the objectives of the lesson were not met. It took the class
significantly longer to read and respond to the warm up activity than anticipated. In fact, the
warm up activity took up the bulk of the class. Many students started to read the Saisselin article
but none completed the reading and worked on the ASIS chart for the main reading. Evidence
for the students’ responses to the reading strategy comes from student completion of the
handouts that were intended to be a warm up.
The students conducted interesting conversations about the reading. Student engagement
was high. For the “Author Says…” section, the students selected quotes from the text where
they felt that the author was making a claim. An example student response: “Q: Haven’t you
simply called this glass of water an oak tree? A: Absolutely not. It’s not a glass of water
anymore. One could call it anything one wished but that would not alter the fact that it is an oak
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tree.” The text features numerous claims. The students consistently found sections of the text
where the author was making a claim. In the example above the author claims that the work of
art is an oak tree regardless of what term is used to describe the piece. The students were able to
identify and record claims made by the author independently.
The students also worked independently to record their responses to the author’s claims
in the “I Say…” section. Student responses in this section reveal a diversity of opinions about
the author’s claims. Students gave opinions about the nature of art. One student wrote: “the
artist sees it as artwork, since it took creativity to see things others cannot. Creativity is what art
is about.” Some students questioned the basic premise of the work: “I don’t know how the artist
sees an oak tree. He says he has changed the physical substance but I don’t see a change.” A
few students expressed limited support: “it’s obviously a glass of water, but only an oak tree in
the artist’s mind.” Some students demonstrated an understandable confusion regarding the
concept: “the artist did not create the oak tree. He created the glass of water that changed into
the oak tree. Therefore, neither the oak tree or the glass of water exist other than in the fictional
visual representation.” The primary purpose of the piece is not visual representation for aesthetic
appreciation; this response may be an example of a student misinterpretation of the piece. Many
students agreed with some of the basic premises of the art work and were able to generate
sophisticated justifications for their agreement: “the fact that the artist says that perceiving this
glass of water as the particular oak tree he sees is unperceivable and inconceivable enforces the
concept that something has changed about the glass and now the onlooker will perceive this glass
differently.” The students were able to meaningfully voice their opinions about the authors
claims independently.
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The students were able to work with their partners to explain what they had learned from
reading the text in the “And So…” section. Some students created inferences of varying quality.
Compare “the artist has the power to bend and twist the title and piece of work and how the artist
uses these influences commands how the viewer will perceive his/her work. The viewer is then
influenced by these influences and their perception of things after viewing the work will be
changed” with “things take different forms. The name and physical appearance can give all
other glasses a stigma, but what’s in a name, as Shakespeare said. Just as a name doesn’t define
a person, a physical appearance does not define a form.” Both responses read between the lines
to identify implicit meanings in the text but the second response is much more specific than the
first. The second response also effectively relates the reading to another text. Many responses to
this section functioned more as summaries: for example, “art is whatever the maker/viewer
perceives it to be. Art is a conceptual idea,” and “that is why he continues to say that the glass of
water is no longer water but an oak tree.” The students’ responses generally depicted what they
had learned from the text. The range of responses indicate that most students took time to create
meaningful reflections. The instructions asked the students to describe what they had learned.
The instructions could be improved to describe what inferences are and to give examples. This
would most like increase the number of student responses that generate inferences.
Although the students worked productively, the class time passed quickly and the class
did not have time to finish reading the article that was the intended main topic of the lesson. It
was useful to have a PowerPoint presentation prepared as it allowed me to address some of the
main ideas of the reading in a short period of time. The strategy also motivated students to share
their responses with the class. In my previous visit most students were reluctant to raise their
hands and contribute to a discussion. The ASIS strategy allowed the students to practice talking
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about the text and this may have given them more confidence to volunteer to respond in a class
discussion.
The strategy reminded me of the importance of teachable moments. As a teacher I am
sometimes too inflexible. I feel a strong desire to stick to the procedures of the lessons I so
carefully plan. However, while using this strategy I saw that the class was more or less
uniformly engaged in high level conversations about the nature of art. For that reason I chose to
allow the students to proceed at their own pace.
Conclusions
Implementation of this lesson revealed that the ASIS strategy takes a significant amount
of instructional time. At the same time, the strategy provides an important framework for
directing conversation. Because the students had a specific writing task to complete they were
motivated to engage each other and the teacher in conversation about the text and the big
questions it raises about the nature of art.
The background research suggests multiple ways to improve the strategy. Students
should be provided with explicit instruction on the nature of inferences and how they can be
generated from the text. This will allow the students to think more deeply about the text.
Teachers should model the process of creating inferences from the text if they want students to
be able to do this independently.
Students can also be made conscious of their own metacognition about argumentative
text. Students should be made aware that the structures used to phrase arguments influence their
ability to read the text and remember what it is about. Students should be encouraged to focus
on claims made in the text first and the reasons that support those claims second. Students
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should be aware that the structures they use to analyze a text influence their comprehension of
the text.
Implementation of the strategy also demonstrated the power of student conversation
about a text. The students were able to make connections, ask questions, and determine
importance by engaging one another in dialogue. If the students had been directed to complete
their charts completely independently they might have been able to complete the task faster,
however there would have been less motivation to consider the meaning of the text in depth, and
therefore a likely drop in comprehension.
This lesson focused on only one variant of the ASIS strategy, the one concerned with
argumentation. The strategy can also be used with informational text and can more directly
encourage questioning by including the “I wonder…” section. The Say Something Read-Aloud
variant encourages even more conversation. If the results of this lesson provide any guide it is
likely that teachers should plan to spend a significant amount of instructional time when using
this strategy.
Instructional time is a precious resource. Some teachers may find it unacceptable to
deviate from a lesson plan because students are having conversations, regardless of how fruitful
those conversations may be. These teachers may recognize that student conversations can
achieve desirable learning outcomes but still feel pressure to cover as much content as possible.
The need to cover specific content should not be ignored; however, the ASIS strategy does not
have to be set aside by teachers with these concerns. One option is to align the reading as much
as possible to the instructional goal of the lesson. Teachers should go over the reading in
advance and determine what sections could be most usefully explored during class time through
student conversations. Teachers could limit the time spent using the strategy so that students
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only discuss one specific section of the reading. The students can be informed that they have a
specific amount of time to complete one cycle of the strategy. The strategy could then be
repeated, perhaps as a warm-up, over multiple days. If students have time to practice the
strategy it seems likely they will learn to do it more efficiently.
At the same time, a principle benefit of this strategy is that it encourages students to
engage in productive conversation about a text. Teachers should recognize the value of a
strategy that motivates students to discuss a text for a specific purpose. Students produce a
product that documents their conversations. The strategy provides a framework for a more
complex class discussion. The teacher can alternate paired or small group discussion with whole
class discussion and ultimately this helps students learn how to find the meaning in a text
independently. Reading and understanding a text is like having a conversation with the author,
the ASIS strategy acknowledges this fact and is therefore an instructional strategy that is
authentic to the way students read and comprehend.
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