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Category: Active Reading
Marked Up Page of Dweck
Active reading through annotation enables you to understand more, remember more, and most important do more with the texts you read. Have a quick read of my very short Marking Up Texts article, then compare your annotations on the Dweck piece to this page of my annotations. What do you notice?
Entering the Conversation
In a comment on this post, use some piece of Gee’s “Discourse” theory to explain how using Gerald Graff’s and Cathy Birkenstein’s templates could “help your writing become more original and creative” (Graff and Birkenstein 11). What would Gee say about how having pre-set templates empower you to be more creative as a thinker and writer? Read More …
Taking Notes from Textbooks
If you’re looking for a good note-taking system, consider this visual variation on the Cornell two- or three-column system.
Metacognitive Reading Tools
Everyone gets stuck once-in-a-while when reading something new or complicated. What matters is how you work to resolve difficulties in reading comprehension. Readers who take a metacognitive approach to reading difficulties ultimately understand more and can do more with their reading. Here are two tools from Schoenbach, Greenleaf, and Murphy’s Reading Apprenticeship approach that can Read More …
On Reading as a Writer Response
In Habits of the Creative Mind, you read and marked-up “On Reading as a Writer” with an eye towards understanding how experienced writers, like Susan Sontag, read. In a 5 minute comment on this post, describe and explain some of the strategies that experienced writers, like Sontag, use to get the most out of their reading time.
Previewing Gee (or any other reading)
Emerging writers sometimes struggle to make sense of texts they need to write about. Often, the problem is that they read passively, by which I mean without activating their curiosity, attentiveness, openness, engagement, and connection-making habits of mind, and without purpose or expectations. This can happen when they are unfamiliar with the topic, or are Read More …
Active Critical Reading Process 1
Course Learning Objective: Active Reading, Critical Reading, & Informal Reading Response – 15% Active, critical readers mark their texts by underlining, highlighting, or otherwise identifying key passages in a reading. They treat margins as places to ask questions, to sketch connections, and to express their ideas or thoughts about a text. And they work to Read More …
Excerpting “I Just Wanna Be Average”
Add a comment to this post, in which you include, attribute, explain, and cite a passage from “I Just Wanna Be Average” that resonates with you. Your goal in your comment is to explain something new-to-you that have learned about literacy by looking at this passage through the lenses of one or more of Juliane Read More …
