Dana Gioia offers convincing argument on the importance of reading, which has been dramatically declining for decades. In fact, an ability to read critically is fundamental for social interactions, range of thinking and even sustainability of society. To build the argument profoundly, author uses variety of facts and studies, personal anecdote and conclusions.…
Kucan, Linda, and Isabel L. Beck. “Thinking Aloud and Reading Comprehension Research: Inquiry, Instruction and Social Interaction.” Review of Educational Research 67.3 (1997): 271–99.…
In "Rhetorical Reading Strategies and the Construction of Meaning" by Christina Haas and Linda Flower, the authors tells us in reading we should have strategies. The two main strategies they elaborate through out the passage are literary theory and cognitive research. Both take a huge part while reading to have a better understanding. As Haas and Flower say "'Critical reading' involves more than careful reading for content, more than identification of conventional features of discourse, such as introduction or examples, and more than simple evaluation based on agreeing or disagreeing"(170). That's why these strategies come in place, a good reader should be able to identify the topic sentence, supporting points, and conclusion. Students lack…
The article “Tyranny of Tradition: How information paradigms limit librarians’ teaching and student scholarship” by Carrie Donovan and Sara O’Donnell, goes into deep discussion of the traditional paradigms for education changing and how it is impacting the learning of students. The article discusses how everyone is entitled to a higher education and one of the main principles of higher education is democracy. Democracy focuses on the actual content of study and how the instruction is delivered. I believe that if students were to learn in the socratic method of instruction, which allows them to question and have their own opinions of things, they will succeed in democratic society. Critical thinking is a necessity for democracy because…
c. Which approach was effective? Why? Trial and error was more effective because I have learned instead of getting up hours earlier to get myself and my children ready I will prepare everything the night before such as their clothes and diaper bags and the things that we need to take with us.…
In responding to a range of texts, pupils show understanding of significant ideas, themes, events and characters, beginning to use inference and deduction. They refer to the text when explaining their views. They locate and use ideas and information.…
Pay attention as the author cites his own difficulties with reading and that of others who find problems with their ability to read and absorb. Sadly much of our reading has become “skimming and scrolling.”…
While designing any lesson plan, it is important to keep in mind that what is being done in the classroom affects students when they get out into the real world. Thus educators must prepare students to not only be able to learn on their own but also to feel empowered to do so. Hence, it is important to take into consideration the sociocultural perspectives in order to ensure one is not simply domesticating students for a job. Further, when specifically teaching about comprehension, as with anything, it must not be assumed that students know how to complete a task. Rather educators must focus assignments around comprehensions skills as well as content in order to appropriately teach students the discourse of a particular subject.…
In this lesson, I focused on Jace, the second grader. I was able to hold a small group lesson in her classroom so that I could be able to assess her literacy ability first hand when it comes to critical and response perspectives. I learned of the idea of a tea party from Tompkins and decided I wanted to create a lesson that would involve this great activity (Tompkins, p. 272). The intent of the tea party was to use the critical perspective as well as the response perspective (Laureate Education, 2010). In this lesson the learners will be able to better understand the text and it should play a role in the learners’ lives in a meaningful way. The use of metacognitive strategies helps the students to think about “thinking” all through the reading process. This lesson demonstrates ways to implement the these perspective (Laureate Education, 2010).…
The challenges of helping English Language Learners succeed academically is profound. Culturally and linguistically diverse students need to develop academic English language…
In Chapter 2 “Reading: Making Meaning” Chaffee focuses on the idea of understanding, what you are reading. Therefore, in order to be productive reader, you should put all your concentration to the text, and also think critically. Moreover, author also mention, that effective reader should pay attention to the details, that you think not necessary, but after reviewing them it will help you to get full understanding of the text. For example, table of concepts, introductory paragraphs and concluding paragraphs, headings, illustrations, and different tables. Additionally, Chaffee states, that often critical readers in order to analyze the text use a problem-solving approach. Through the chapter, author bringing our attention to metacognitive…
Steffensen, M. S., Joag-dev, C., & Anderson, R. C. (1979). A cross-cultural perspective on reading comprehension. Reading Research Quarterly, 15, 10-29. EJ 210791.…
Often these arguments are contextualized based on ones culture or traditions, the reflections will have a close perspectives based on their personal background. Conversational learning focuses on working with others in order to reach an understanding. One’s “ability to negotiate meanings and purposes instead of passively accepting the social realities defined by others” (Mezirow, 1991, p.96) creates a deeper understanding and ability to conceptualize both long-term and short-term…
References: Critical literacy as comprehension: Expanding reader response, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy Date: September 1, 2004.…
This video is discussing a technique that can be used to help students with the 5th pillar of reading, comprehension. The teacher in this video is modeling how to do a think aloud to her students. The teacher explains how she stops at every heading to predict what will happen in the next section and reflect on what happened in the section they that was just completed. She also explained how helpful illustrations in text are to being able to figure out what is happening in a text. The teacher expresses how important it is to model technique first, so that all students have an example of what they are expected to do when they are using the technique independently. The think aloud strategy being used in this video is a great way for students to be able to improve their comprehension.…