Sharing Knowledge Through Interactive Reading

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Sharing Knowledge Through Interactive Reading

• a reading comprehension training module

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Teachers have so much information to share.
How well are you sharing yours with students?
Discuss with your neighbor how you share
information in your class.
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Read handout 1 and get ready for a pop quiz.
1. What differentiates a plow agricultural system
from a hoe agricultural system?
2. Why was there a reduced value placed on women
in colonial Virginia?
3. What does the word exigencies mean?
4. What were the Renaissance scientific theories
about women and work?
5. How did the skewed sex ratio contribute to
failure to diversify?
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Lets list the problems this instructional
procedure created.
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The Components of Reading Comprehension
Instruction

• Before Reading
• Setting purpose
• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Predicting
• Questioning

• During Reading
• Self-Monitoring
• Self-Correcting
• Clarifying
• Inferring
• Visualizing
• Supporting peers

• After Reading
• Reteaching peers
• Discussing
• Summarizing
• Writing in Response to Reading

It is during the process of interaction among
components that reading comprehension is most
likely to occur.
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities

• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Predicting
• Questioning

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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
Establishing a reason to read, comprehend,
remember, and then apply to the future.
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
You have just purchased a new grill. Of course,
it comes disassembled with directions for
assembling it. What is your purpose for reading
the directions?
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For what purposes might you read the following?
Before Reading Activities

• Recipes
• Scripts
• Book or movie reviews
• Memos from the boss
• Menus
• Magazines
• Newspapers

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Before Reading Activities
Activating Prior Knowledge
Recalling information processed and stored by the
reader(s) provides links to new knowledge.
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Can your prior knowledge tell you what this
graphic means?
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Before Reading Activities
Activating Prior Knowledge
Lets revisit the article about women in Colonial
Virginia and lets set a purpose for reading and
activate our prior knowledge.
Handout 1
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities

• Activating Prior Knowledge

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Before Reading Activities
Predicting
Making a forecast of what the text contains based
on patterns and prior knowledge.
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Before Reading Activities
Predicting
Predict what will happen next to Old Faithful and
to Reggie.
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Before Reading Activities
Predicting
Examine the cover art for The Whipping Boy by Sid
Fleischman and predict what the story will be
about.
Then listen to the first chapter and predict
which character is going to be the protagonist.
Discuss your ideas with those around you.
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Cover Art by Broeck Steadman used with permiss
ion from Troll School and Library, 100 Corporate
Drive Mahwah, New Jersey
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
Predicting
citizenship
Read the paragraph which follows and predict what
the rest of the passage will contain.
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Before Reading Activities
Predicting and Purpose Setting
Being a citizen means being a part of a country
or community. Citizens usually share a common
history, common customs, and common values. They
agree to abide by a set of rules and to accept
the governments authority.
Record your predictions on the graphic organizer.
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
Questioning
Developing inquiries about the text that will
direct readers toward the purpose for reading.
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Questioning

• Four types of questions
• Memory
• Convergent thinking
• Divergent thinking
• Evaluative thinking

Ciardiello, A. V. (1998).Did you ask a good
question today? Alternative cognitive and
metacognitive strategies. Journal of Adolescent
and Adult Literacy 423.
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Questioning

• Memory questions
• Signal words who, what , where, when
• Cognitive operations naming, defining,
  identifying, designating
  
• Examples
• What is the definition for democracy?
• When does the 21st century begin?
• Ask a memory question of your partner.

Ciardiello, A. V. Journal of Adolescent and Adult
Literacy 423.
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Questioning

• Convergent thinking questions
• Signal words why, how, in what ways
• Cognitive operations explaining, stating
  relationships, comparison/contrast
  
• Example In what ways is the anti-apartheid
  movement in South Africa similar to the civil
  rights movement in the United States?
  
• Ask a convergent thinking question of your
  partner.
  

Ciardiello, A. V. Journal of Adolescent and Adult
Literacy 423
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Questioning

• Divergent thinking questions
• Signal words imagine, predict, ifthen, how
  might, what are some possible consequences
  
• Cognitive operations predicting, hypothesizing,
  inferring, reconstructing
  
• Example What are some possible consequences of
  the fall of communism in Eastern Europe?
  
• Ask a divergent thinking question of your
  partner.
  

Ciardiello, A. V. Journal of Adolescent and Adult
Literacy 423
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Questioning

• Evaluative thinking questions
• Signal words defend, justify, judge
• Cognitive operations valuing, judging,
  defending, justifying choices
  
• Example What do you think of capital punishment
  for drug dealers?
  
• Ask an evaluative thinking question of your
  partner.
  

Ciardiello, A. V. Journal of Adolescent and Adult
Literacy 423
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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
Questioning
Turn these headings into questions

• The New England Colonies
• The Pilgrims
• The Puritans and the Great Migration
• Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Discontented Colonists Establish New Colony

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Setting a Purpose for Reading
Before Reading Activities
Questioning
Turn more headings into questions

• The Experiment at Jamestown
• The Early Years
• Tobacco and Prosperity
• Warfare and Native Americans

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Major Sources of Marine Pollution
Formulate questions and answer them with partners.
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During Reading Activities
Predicting while reading
Making a forecast of what the text will contain
based on patterns and prior knowledge.
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Predicting while reading
Predict what will happen to Old Faithful and to
Larry.
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During Reading Activities
Predicting while reading
A 60-year-old couple was celebrating their 40
years of marriage. During the celebration a fairy
appeared and said, Because you have been such a
loving couple all those years, I would like to
give you each one wish.
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During Reading Activities
Predicting while reading
The wife quickly chimed in, I want to travel
around the world. The fairy waved her wand and
POOF! She had the tickets in her hand.
Next it was the husbands turn. He paused for a
moment and then said shyly,
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During Reading Activities
Predicting while reading
Well, Id like to have a wife 30 years younger
than me. The fairy picked up her wand and POOF!
He was 90...
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Self-Monitoring
During Reading Activities
A reader recognizing his own level of
understanding and knowing what to do when the
text does not seem to match up with what he
presumes to be correct.
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Self-Correcting
During Reading Activities
A reader fixing his own miscues and/or rereading
text because it seems to contradict his
predictions and assumptions.
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Self-MonitoringSelf-Correcting
During Reading Activities
Two parts Pronunciation - the reader recognizes
that something sounds wrong. Meaning - the rea
der recognizes that he has missed the meaning.

In either case the reader must correct himself!
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Self-MonitoringSelf-Correcting
During Reading Activities
The reader must notice and correct his own errors!
If readers do not notice an error, partners and
coaches can say, Try that again, but should
refrain from correcting the reader.
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Self-MonitoringSelf-Correcting
During Reading Activities
Read aloud with partners Nature of the Covalent
Bond. Find and correct your own pronunciation
errors. Also, stop at the end of each paragraph
to monitor your own understanding by restating
the main idea. Trade roles.
Handout 2
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This is the end of part 1 of Interactive Reading

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Sharing Knowledge through Interactive Reading

• a reading comprehension training module

Created by Kay Grandstaff Harrisonburg City Schoo
ls Catherine Rosenbaum Virginia Department of Edu
cation Kathleen Smith Virginia Department of Educ
ation Maria Tsuchiya Richmond City Schools
Piloted at Lancaster Middle School under the dir
ection of Charlene Winter, reading specialist and
Sandy Spears, principal.