ACTIVE READING STRATEGIES: PUTTING THOUGHT INTO ACTION 6 th Annual VUS-TESOL Conference July 23, 2011

What is active reading?

Active Learning “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” - Aristotle “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -Chinese Proverb

Active Teaching “A challenge facing educational researchers is to discover instructional methods that promote appropriate processing in learners, rather than methods that promote hands-on activity or group discussion as ends in themselves.” -Richard Mayer, 2004

Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences Verbal - Linguistic Logical-Mathematical Musical Spatial Bodily-Kinesthetic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Naturalist Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21 st Century, 1999.

VAK Model VisualAuditoryKinesthetic

Bloom’s Taxonomy - Revised A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember

assemble, construct, develop, write Create argue, defend, select, value Evaluate compare, contrast, question, research Analyze change, interview, role-play, solve, use Apply classify, describe, report, summarize Understand define, list, memorize, name, recall Remember

Activities for Pre-Reading, Reading, and Post-Reading Practice

Vocabulary Building 1. What part of speech is the word? 2. How many definitions are there for the word? 3. Which definition is correct for this context? 4. Read and paraphrase one or two of the sample sentences.

Task Variety  Cloze Exercises  Strip Stories  Running Dictations  Jigsaw Activities  Syntax/Grammar Analysis  Comprehension Questions  Paraphrasing  Personal Response Questions

Word Clouds  bust  chamber  Lenore  nevermore  quoth  raven  soul  tapping  thee  thy Vocabulary ListWord Cloud Text taken from The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe Wordle.net

1.Find the words associated with: family. childhood. religion. politics. 2.Find the words you don’t know.

Perspective-Taking Adapted from The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

A Writing for Every Reading TestsNotesJournalsStories Free Writes Graphic Organizers ???

Note-Taking Strategies

Graphic Organizers Venn Diagrams Hierarchical Models Flow Charts

Triple-Entry Journals QuotationSummaryResponse

Read - Alouds "And what does one do on the fourteenth of July? Does one celebrate Bastille Day?" It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. "Might one sing on Bastille Day?" she asked. "Might one dance in the street? Somebody give me an answer.”

Thematic Connections Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks and Raymond Carver’s short story They’re Not Your Husband as examples of minimalism.

Making Inferences Images of Aesop's Fables from Mike Dierken on Flickr

Making Inferences The Wind and the Sun 1. The wind and the sun had an argument about who was stronger. 2. Then they saw a man walking down a road, and the sun said, “I know how to settle this argument. Let’s see who can force this man to take off his coat. You can begin.” 3. The sun hid behind a cloud and the wind began to blow and blow. 4. But the harder it blew, the more the man pulled his coat tighter. 5. Finally, the wind gave up. 6. Then the sun took its turn. 7. It came from behind the clouds and smiled down upon the man. 8. Within a few minutes, the man took off his coat because of the sun’s warmth.

Do you and your parents share the same attitudes towards religion? Analytic Responses Image from The Complete Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi

Creative Responses Choose one person from this list, and write his or her story of the reaping. Pay attention to what this character might have seen, thought and felt.  Gale  Haymitch  Madge  Peeta  Prim

Time to Reflect! Q & A

Contact Information Heather Barikmo Mary Nance-Tager Thank you!