Focusing on Literacy Reading Skills
Understanding Unreliable Narrators
Sequencing Instruction to help students meet the demands of the task
Transferring an instructional model to new teaching situations
Miscellaneous
100
A challenge to help students gain understandings that they can transfer to their reading of subsequent texts, something that is, as a consequence, well worth remembering.
What is the Father Sarducci Test?
100
Any campaign for public office can be related to this.
What is an unreliable narrator outside of literature?
100
Helping student bring prior interests, experiences, and knowledge to bear on a new task
What is frontloading?
100
"His blue suit had become shiny with age. It used to fit, but now it hung loosely over his bony shoulders. His forehead was lined with deep creases. This hands shook slightly. His knuckles were swollen and knobby and looked liked the roots of old trees.
What is an elderly man?
100
A Look at Reading: Developing Competence and Providing Control
What is the title of Chapter 2?
200
We need to teach more highly specified versions of these strategies that apply to particular kinds of texts.
What is in place of teaching general reading strategies?
200
"In any reading experience there is an implied dialogue among author, narrator, the other characters, and the reader. Each of the four can range, in relations to each of the others, from identification to complete opposition, on any axis of value, moral, intellectual, aesthetic and even physical"
What is distance?
200
Introduces students to new strategies that help them read and write particular kinds of texts or comprehend specific textual tools or conventions.
What is procedural frontloading?
200
1. Strategies applicable to a particular kind of text 2. A particular strategy or set of strategies that apply to all kinds of texts
What is interpretive strategies?
200
A way of teaching in which students develop a set of skills or strategies or tools that they apply with increasing sophistication across a range of activities.
What is integrated curriculum?
300
1. Students have command of the knowledge that is to be transferred. 2. Students have a theoretical understanding of the principles to be transferred. 3. The classroom culture cultivates a spirit of transfer. 4. Students get plenty of practice.
What conditions need to be met in order for transfer to occur?
300
1. Recognize when a speaker or author is being ironic. 2. When an author has his or her speaker proclaim a known error. 3. Conflicts of facts within a work 4. A clash of style. 5. A conflict of belief
What are the steps/clues to interpreting irony?
300
"I'm sad to say that this will be our last class together. I've decided to quit teaching and become a rock 'n' roll star. I've really enjoyed teaching you, but I've decide to become rich and famous instead," is an example of this.
What is unreliable narrator?
300
These are an excellent way to give students lots of practice in understanding characters in a very short time.
What is comic strips?
300
These allow students to feel up to the textual challenges they encounter in our classes... Allowing them to achieve important goals.
What is specific interpretive strategies?
400
"The Ransom of Red Chief" and "A Mother in Mannville"
What two short stories were discussed in this section?
400
1. Is the narrator too self-interested to be reliable? 2. Is the narrator sufficiently experienced to be reliable? 3. Is the narrator sufficiently knowledgeable to be reliable? 4. Is the narrator sufficiently moral to be reliable? 5. Is the narrator too emotional to be reliable?
What are the five questions to evaluating first-person narratives?
400
"Who do you Trust" is designed to highlight the six questions that we argued are among those experienced readers ask when they evaluate the reliability of a narrator
What is the activity in figure 2.1?
400
"I know the grade must be really important to you considering ho much work you put into the assignment?
What is sarcasms? Or "I can't believe you have the nerve to complain about the grade when you didn't try any harder than you did"
400
Michael W. Smith, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm
Who are the authors of the book?
500
1. Identify specific kinds of texts and to think about the particular demands they place on readers. 2. Identify a particular strategy or kind of inferencing that puts similar demands on readers, whatever the type of text.
What are the two approached to articulating our secrets?
500
Students who are unable to to transfer textual information or understand the in depth meanings are often considered this.
What is passive recipients?
500
Italicized portions of dramas.
What are stage directions?
500
Survey! Question! Read! Recite! Review!
What is SQ3R?
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