This is the summary version of a seminar on reading strategies appropriate for 21st century literacies.

1. Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies

2. Introduction The Importance of Narrative The New Meaning of Text The Stages of Development Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies

3. Prologue Reading Pictures Boys will be Boys Moving Image Digital N a rra tives Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies

4. Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies 1 Making Predictions 2 Asking Questions 3 Making Comparisons 4 Looking for Patterns 5 Making Pictures 6 Summarising 7 Evaluating Contents

5. Chapter One Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Used before and during reading Encourages close reading of text Used at key points in the text Not to be overused Making Predictions

6. Chapter Two Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Asking questions is more important than answering them Fermi questions and little thunks What would I like to Know? KWL Asking Questions

7. Chapter Three Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Making Links with own experience Building on prior learning Increasing awareness of genre Making Comparisons

8. Chapter Four Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Plot, structure and layout Words, images and symbols Themes and ideas-points of view Looking for Patterns *

9. Chapter Five Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Draw the character Maps and Mind-Maps Storyboards, comic strips, animation and film Making Pictures

10. Chapter Six Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Paraphrasing, Selecting and Combining Blurbs, chapter headings and trailers Mini-epics and six-word stories Summarising

11. Chapter Seven Snow White and the Seven Reading Strategies Think audience and purpose Author’s point of view Building an appropriate vocabulary Evaluating