I
liked this handout because it had many great ideas about how to get your
students to not only read what you want them to read, but to understand it and
be able to question it and respond to it in writing. I especially like the whole section on pre-reading. Oftentimes we forget that there is
steps we need to take before jumping into the reading that will help us better
understand the text. Pre-reading also helps students to develop a purpose and
plan for their reading, which would help them later down the line in writing a
paper about what they are reading.
I
liked how this handout had suggestions and strategies you could use with your
students to help them read and understand text, not only for the pre-reading
section, but also for every section.
Some of the pre-reading activities that were my favorite suggestions
were group discussions, brainstorming, role-play activities, and
quick-writes. Another section I
liked that had great suggestions was the section called, “Reading for
Understanding.” I like the idea of
having students read the text multiple times, with a different purpose in
reading it each time so that they can identify the main ideas and then develop
their interpretations and opinions on the text. Teachers can have their students make predictions about the
text and then revisit their predictions.
My favorite questions that were suggested to ask students were: Which of your predictions turned out to
be true? And if any of your predictions were inaccurate, what in the text
mislead you?
Overall,
this handout is a great tool that can be used by teachers to help their
students understand what they read, think outside the box, and think critically
about what they read. One of the
best sections in this handout is a subsection in the post-reading section
called, “Thinking Critically.” The
different questions it suggests students ask themselves after reading something
would be excellent starting points for an argumentative paper.
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