Reading As Thinking The

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Reading As ThinkingThe Focused Read
Strategy(Continued)
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Focused Read Review A focused read strategy
will help you think while you read. You will be
able to compare and contrast your current
knowledge with the information you read in new
material. It is an excellent strategy for both
in-class and homework reading assignments.
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• Sometimes you may wish to record your
  thoughts on paper or in the margin of the hand
  out sheet
• Other times when you are reading a text
  book,etc., Post it notes (stickies) may help
  you label the text as you read.

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Review

• Here are the first 3 codes we have learned in the
  Focused Read strategy

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v - I get it (when you know and understand
this, for example, a paragraph that you
understand) ! This is really important
or interesting ? - I am
confused! I dont understand this or this does
not make sense (a word, phrase, concept (idea),
paragraph)
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Coding the text helps you

• Hold your thinking
• Think about the authors message
• Remember what youve read
• Determine what is important
• Be able to support your written assignments and
  class discussions

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Our Next Steps the Sticky

• While reading use a post-it note (sticky) to
  record a question about the text or an opinion
  about the text
• Place the sticky on the line where the opinion or
  question was made
• Write your opinion or question on the sticky
• You may have more than one connection or question

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An example..

• Read the following text.
• On your copy you must code as you read (?!v)
• Plus write down a question or opinion you may
  have concerning the text.

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• Juice makers getting squeezed
• Consumer prices rising as firms battle
• shortage of orangesBy TRAVIS REED The Associated
  Press
• ORLANDO, Fla. Orange juice prices, already at
  historic
• highs, are expected to climb further as
  production in Floridas
• hurricane-ravaged groves bottoms out. But its
  not just
• consumers who will be affected Juice makers like
  PepsiCos
• Tropicana Products and The Coca-Cola Companys
  Minute
• Maid, which get the greatest majority of their
  juice from
• Florida, are facing a profit squeeze from rising
  domestic
• prices and imports from Brazil that come with
  margin-killing
• tariffs (taxes). The U.S. Department of
  Agriculture this
• week predicted Florida would produce 135 million
  40-
• Kilogram boxes of oranges, down about 40 per cent
  from
• production levels before the 2004 hurricane
  season. It would
• be the third year in a row of subpar (below
  average)
• production, and the worst orange harvest since
  freezes
• crippled crops in 1990.

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Possible Questions/Opinions

• Question examples
• Will orange juice prices go up?
• Will this have an effect on pop prices, too?
• Will many people lose their jobs?
• Opinion example
• Prices just go up any way so I dont need to
  worry
• The U.S. should not tax the orange juice from
  Brazil this could help lower prices and the
  orange juice workers may not lose their jobs

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• We will always use coding when we read in school.
• Use it in all subjects and in fiction or
  non-fiction reading
• Coding is especially useful in hard to read text
  books!

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Reading Is Thinking!

• It is not just the repeating of one word after
  another.
• You need to be focused to keep your in-head tv
  on!

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Assignment for next reading day

• Read the article provided
• Code as you read and, using the sticky provided
  write at least one (minimum) question or opinion
• Hand the sheet in next day
• If you finish before class is over you may read