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A Streamlined Reading Process: W hat t o D o Before , During, After. Effective Transitions in Adult Education Conference November 12-14, 2013. Mary Lou Friedline
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A Streamlined Reading Process:WhattoDoBefore, During, After Effective Transitions in Adult Education Conference November 12-14, 2013 Mary Lou Friedline Interim ABLE Coordinator/In-House PD Specialist Adult Education Instructor PIC of Westmoreland/Fayette, Inc.
The important things Concepts and Vocabulary • Main Ideas and Supporting Details • Restate and Summarize • Implications and Inferences • Sequence • Cause and Effect • Facts and Opinions • Conclusions • Compare and Contrast
Question How could you use theseto relate reading and writing?
How • Model Active Reading • Use guided questions • Read with interest • Expect it to make sense • Relate to Writing • Paragraph structure model • Pause @ commas, stop @ periods
Before (Preview or Pre-read) • Bold, Italic, Underlining • Titles and Captions • Pictures, Charts, Graphs • Objectives (1st page), Summary/questions (last) The brain automatically sifts and sorts to make connections to prior knowledge and experiences. Questioning and predicting begin, almost unknowingly.
During • Pause at commas; drop voice/stop at periods • Visualize (and “hear” conversation) • Identify if content is expected or unexpected using prior knowledge and experiences • Make inferences (figurative vs. literal) • Take notes, highlight, underline, or use graphic organizer(s), if helpful • Read and/or reread aloud, if necessary
After • Ask yourself if information is understood • Reread (parts or sections, possibly aloud, if needed) • Summarize in own words • Take notes, highlight, underline, or use graphic organizer, if helpful
How to suggestions • Use question starters: Webb’s DOK • Try predictions: Write title on board—students discuss or write predictions for later discussion • Providegraphic organizer(s) to guide skill: search Jim Burke pdf • Do follow-up writing: prewriting already completed with predictions and graphic organizer(s) • Make charts or tables to accompany texts
Word problem strategies • Read the last sentence first • Know the vocabulary • Substitute your name • Draw a visual • Replace distracting numbers with 2, 5, 10 • Round off and estimate
Free, online resources • Jim Burke pdf as search phrase • Multiple pdf booklets with lesson ideas, graphic organizers, bookmark strategies, and more • Townsend Press Learning Center • www.townsendpress.net has many “Try Out Exercises” for reading and writing. One is Ten Steps to Advanced Reading, 1/e-2/e , which has 11 skills’ videos approximately 5-6 minutes each.
Free, online resources cont’d. • Accuplacer and Compass resources • Aims Accuplacer Study Guides as search phrase • North Georgia Technical College Compass study guide as search phrase • New Readers Press • GED test prep materials • ProLiteracy Education Network • Multiple types of materials for students and instructors
Read, read, read . . . • Copy/paste/print newspaper articles to just read with or without discussion or writing • Read a chapter, or a few pages from a chapter, aloud of various genre (Byron Pitts) • Use song lyrics to read poetry Experience the thrill when students bring in to share, or talk about, what they or their children are reading.