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Soon after Maryanne Wolf published “Proust and the Squid,” a history of the science and the development of the reading brain from antiquity to the twenty-first century, she began to receive letters from readers. Hundreds of them. While the backgrounds of the writers varied, a theme began to emerge: the more reading moved online, the less students seemed to understand."
Beth Dichter's insight:
The debate about online reading continues? Do students retain more information when they read from books rather than from digital devices? Does reading online present challenges due to distractions? Do students need to be taught skills to become better online readers? This post explores these issues and many more, providing much food for thought as you read through and learn what research is telling us today. Take the time to explore this article. It may change the way you have students in your classroom work with digital text. 
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When I was in the classroom, I used the workshop model. After students read silently every day, I asked that they write in their reading response journal for just five minutes. They could choose ...
Beth Dichter's insight:
Are you looking for an extensive list of reading response questions? Look no further. This post provides an in-depth list of questions, as well as suggestions on how the author used them in her classroom. Along with a lengthy list of great questions there is also a section called Test Readiness Terms that provides additional questions in the areas of Analyze, Compare, Contrast, Define, Describe, Differentiate, Discuss, Evaluate, Explain, Identify, Interpret, List, Main Idea, and Outline. Below are five randomly chosen questions. — Describe the most important event. Give at least three reasons why you think it is the most important event. — If you could change what you’re reading, how would you change it? — Is the setting described well enough that can put a picture of it in your mind? Why or why not? — What have you found boring about what you’ve been reading? What made it boring? If you were the author, what would you do to make it more interesting? If you have students using writing journals it is worth your time to check out this list. You may not want to use all of the questions (the author notes that a printed list ran to 10 pages) so take the time to review and select ones that will work with your students.
Gary Harwell's curator insight,
July 11, 2014 12:38 AM
If yoiu are serius about reading, these are some great questions. |
Interesting article in the New Yorker on another digital controversy.
Studies show we are not reading as effectively online as we are with hard copies. This highlights the need for tools to help us read deeper online - e.g annotation type tools. This links to an interesting stuy of year 5 students using collaborative annotation software demonstrating higher performance than the control group's' paper based annotation.