Developing a Definition of Reading through Investigation in Middle School

Materials and Technology

Student Interactives

Printouts

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• One note card for each student
  
  
• Paper, pens
  
  
• A variety of texts for analysis and investigation

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STUDENT INTERACTIVES

Grades   6 – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Writing & Publishing Prose

Profile Publisher

Students use the Profile Publisher to draft online social networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for themselves, other real or fictional characters.

 

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PRINTOUTS

• Reading Survey
  
  
• Personal Profile: Reader’s Profile Directions
  
  
• Personal Profile: Sample Reader’s Profile
  
  
• Defining Reading Hands-on Investigation
  
  
• Defining Reading Reflection Sheet

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PREPARATION

• Compile a large variety of texts. Include picture books, beginning readers, elementary books on different reading levels, textbooks from different grades and subjects (elementary through college level), general fiction and non-fiction, reference books, dictionaries, poetry anthologies, plays, diaries, and professional books. Also include magazines and newspapers as well as technical reading, such as instructions, manuals, and job applications. Print a few Web-based texts such as a home page for a news source, a blog entry, or a Wikipedia entry to round out the collection.
  
  
• Make copies of necessary handouts.
  
  
• Type and copy the compiled list of student definitions of reading between Sessions One and Two.
  
  
• Type and prepare an overhead of the group definitions between Sessions Two and Three.
  
  
• Schedule an Internet-connected computer lab for Session Four.
  
  
• Test the ReadWriteThink Profile Publisher interactive on your computers to familiarize yourself with the tool and ensure that you have the Flash plug-in installed. You can download the plug-in from the technical support page.

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