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Against the Odds: Reading Critically in the 21 st Century

Against the Odds: Reading Critically in the 21 st Century. Reading Between the Lives I The Making Visible Project at Chabot College (18 minutes) As you watch the film, write down comments and/or situations to which you can relate. What did you write down?. Demystifying Reading.

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Against the Odds: Reading Critically in the 21 st Century

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  1. Against the Odds: Reading Critically in the 21st Century

  2. Reading Between the Lives IThe Making Visible Project at Chabot College (18 minutes)As you watch the film, write down comments and/or situations to which you can relate.

  3. What did you write down?

  4. Demystifying Reading

  5. Our Goals: define metacognition; describe how it is used by good readers; describe how lack of it creates poor readers; practice “Inquiry” in reading; learn to use the Charting to improve reading skills; 6. learn a way to be a strategic, reflective, and self-regulating reader.

  6. Enter:The Metacognitive Dimension “meta” after or beyond “cognitive” mental process of knowing

  7. Metacognition is “thinking about thinking” Metacognition refers to learners' automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their ability to understand, control, and manipulate their own cognitive (thinking) processes. Metacognitive skills are important not only in school, but throughout life, as they help you: • be a person who has learned to learn; • know the stages in the process of learning and understand your preferred approaches to it; • identify and overcome blocks to learning so you can bring learning from academic to on-the-job/career situations.

  8. Readers with poor metacognitive skills: • often finish reading a passage without even knowing that they have not understood it; • are unable to process and use what they have read; • are unable to make adjustments in their learning processes and monitor their own learning; • approach reading with a negative attitude; • set themselves up to fail.

  9. Cool—how do I start?

  10. Practice INQUIRY in-kwuh-ree (n), inquiries • the act of seeking truth, information, or knowledge • an investigation • the act of inquiring or of seeking information by questioning

  11. A Reading Inquiry HOWyou read is as important as WHAT you read. Should we read everything the same?

  12. The Challenge • We read different texts in different ways. • Reading is an invisible process. • For effective readers (or when one is reading effectively) this is especially true. • In order to conduct an inquiry into what we do when we read, we need to make this invisible process visible. How do I do that, you ask?

  13. Develop a Strategy… Charting the Text

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