Reading for Meaning, a reading and reasoning strategy that helps students understand new ideas, make inferences, and support their thinking with evidence. The strategy is designed around finds from an extensive body of research showing that proficient readers out-perform their less proficient peers for two main reasons. First, proficient readers use a specific set of thinking skills to build deep understanding of the texts they read. Second, proficient readers apply these skills in three distinct phases; before reading, during reading, and after reading. Reading for Meaning gives all students the opportunity to practice and master the skills and the 3-phase approach of proficient readers by:
Using simple statements to preview and predict before reading
Actively searching for relevant evidence during reading
Reflecting on and synthesizing both their learning and their thinking process after reading.
The Reading for Meaning strategy also integrates the habits of the mind, a set of dispositions that increase students' capacity for skillful thinking (Costa & Kallick, 2008, 2009).
The Reading for Meaning strategy also integrates the habits of the mind, a set of dispositions that increase students' capacity for skillful thinking (Costa & Kallick, 2008, 2009).
How do I start?
Watch the video Reading for Meaning located via YouTube.
View the Reading for Meaning PowerPoint via Ohio.
Read Text Comprehension and When Kids Hate to Read
Read Introducing Reading for Meaning
Assignment
Please follow all directions. EMAIL me your completed assignment by February 22, 2014.Previewing Reading for Meaning in the Classroom may help. :)
Reading for Meaning Assignment