{"id":2300,"date":"2017-10-10T20:42:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T02:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2017-10-10T20:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T02:42:22","slug":"say-something-reading-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/say-something-reading-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Say something&#8221; reading strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While attending the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) today, I learned a new teaching technique I felt was worth sharing.&nbsp; FLC is led by the director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, Libby Scheiern.&nbsp; Today Libby modeled a reading strategy that we could use in our own classrooms.&nbsp; The strategy is called \u201csay something,\u201d and this is how it works:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>With an assigned reading, the class decides how to \u201cchunk\u201d the reading into manageable parts to read. The best recommendation is by paragraphs or small sections.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Place students in pairs (student A and student B). (When I do this, I\u2019m planning on strategically matching my pairs, but you could also have the pairs be random).<\/li>\n<li>Have the students read the first portion of the text independently and silently, and then have student A \u201csay something\u201d about the reading. When student A shares, one of the following can happen:\n<ul>\n<li>Make a personal connection to the reading<\/li>\n<li>Pose a question about what has been read<\/li>\n<li>Make a summary comment about the reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Student B is listening while student A shares.&nbsp; &nbsp;The time is really for student A to verbalize his\/her understanding, but naturally the students will engage in a dialogue about the text, and that is ok.<\/li>\n<li>Once student A is finished talking, the pair reads the next portion of the text silently, and then it will be student B\u2019s turn to share on of the following:\n<ul>\n<li>Make a personal connection to the reading<\/li>\n<li>Pose a question about what has been read<\/li>\n<li>Make a summary comment about the reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>This process can continue to repeat until you feel they have read enough or understood enough of the reading. &nbsp;Since the purpose of this activity is for students to practice their reading comprehension, students could do this activity outside of class.&nbsp; Another variation is that students could both read and take turns discussing their talking points but then write a reflection on what they read and discussed.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since Libby had us do this activity, I felt I gained more understanding of the reading after I could talk about it.&nbsp; I also found that I gained a different perspective when I was encouraged to listen to my partner share her ideas.&nbsp; In fact, her interpretation of the text was so clear that I had a better understanding of the text.&nbsp; I learned so much during this activity that I will definitely be having my students use this reading strategy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While attending the Faculty Learning Community (FLC) today, I learned a new teaching technique I felt was worth sharing.&nbsp; FLC is led [&hellip;]<\/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-2300","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-B6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300","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=2300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2301,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2300\/revisions\/2301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/teaching-excellence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}