Happy International Reading Day!\u00a0 Since it is international reading day, I thought today\u2019s Tuesday Teaching Tip should be about literacy, but more specifically, a reading strategy.<\/p>\n
Reading is in integral part of our courses.\u00a0 Many discussions or classroom activities cannot happen unless the students complete the reading.\u00a0 \u00a0I find that my students are reading and writing every day, but they do not always realize why<\/u><\/strong> they are reading and writing.\u00a0 These skills have become a mundane and automated task almost without purpose. \u00a0In school they\u2019re told to read \u201cx\u201d amount of pages and write \u201cx\u201d number of words, but they do not always understand the purpose behind the activity.\u00a0 So they do not always complete the assignments, or if they do, they don\u2019t go into depth.<\/p>\n Outside of class and requirements, students are constantly reading and writing.\u00a0 Whether they\u2019re writing an email or text or reading on Facebook, students are engaged with text.\u00a0 So how do we get them to transfer these skills from a social arena to an academic one?\u00a0 How do we help them realize that their consistent use of literacy skills can transfer to the academic world?<\/p>\n Mark Twain said, “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.\u201d This quote reminds me of the importance of reading and writing as a means of communicating and learning.\u00a0 By explicitly providing opportunities for students to focus on their reading, we are encouraging students to dig more into the text.<\/p>\n In the classroom, one way to get students engaged in their reading is to hold them accountable amongst their peers.\u00a0 Reading circles are based on Harvey Daniel\u2019s Literature Circles, but they were renamed by Jane Gee since her undergraduate courses do not always contain literature.\u00a0\u00a0 Jane Gee explains that reading circles allow students to know their reading and writing purpose, to focus their attention on one task (their specific \u201cjob\u201d), and to interact in a small group setting. \u00a0For specific roles and how she manages her Reading Circles, make sure to check out her blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have other reading strategies that you found helped engage students, then please comment on them below.\u00a0 Happy International Literacy Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy International Reading Day!\u00a0 Since it is international reading day, I thought today\u2019s Tuesday Teaching Tip should be about literacy, but more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5DI6r-pi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}