In
Reading
history: A practical guide to improving literacy, Janet Allen describes
strategies that will engage students in the reading aspects of history. In
chapter one, Building Foundations for Reading Success (Pre-Reading Strategies
for Assessing and Building Background Knowledge), Allen describes techniques that
connect to literature. Christine states that it is important to ask students
WHAT they know before beginning teaching. This technique seems quite obvious to
me, but it is also important in order to know what to teach and how long to
teach certain topics. This whole chapter is based on the four broad tasks as
content teachers which are: Assessing the knowledge base students bring to the
study, providing students with experiences that give them a rich and memorable
context for their reading, anticipating words and concepts that may make
reading difficult and helping students develop questions they would like to
answer so that they have a purpose for reading. For each broad tasks there are
examples of student work (i.e. Anthonys documentation web) and other techniques
to guide students through the tasks.
I find this book to be very quite informative so far. I believe that as a teacher the most important of the four tasks is to provide students with experiences that give them a rich and memorable context for their reading because it allows students to make outside connections that they can incorporate in the classroom. In my CPD experience at Pierre Van Courtlandt Middle school, my mentor teachers have applied many of these strategies in their teaching. I have witnessed the use of a web as well as asking the students what they already know about a topic before the lesson is carried out.
I find this book to be very quite informative so far. I believe that as a teacher the most important of the four tasks is to provide students with experiences that give them a rich and memorable context for their reading because it allows students to make outside connections that they can incorporate in the classroom. In my CPD experience at Pierre Van Courtlandt Middle school, my mentor teachers have applied many of these strategies in their teaching. I have witnessed the use of a web as well as asking the students what they already know about a topic before the lesson is carried out.
Good summary of note taking for the group. This is a good summary but you want to move beyond summaries here and do some analysis. Analysis involves making other connections between this reading and other readings, the field. It also involves breaking things down and raising questions about things. You have a lot of good ideas but it is relatively small in its presentation next to the summary of the blog - no need for that... we've all read it.
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