Tuesday, (9/10/2018)
There are 3 main types of connections:
1. Text to self
(Relating it to yourself)
- How do I feel about it?
- No education filter yet
2. Text to world
(What you know about the world around you)
- Sociocultural background
- How does it work in 'your' surrounding
- How does it limit or extend your knowledge
- Locate yoursef (middle class/ working class/ urban/ rural)
- Locate the author
- Lived experiences
3. Text to text
(Out of your field, things you have read)
- Experience with works of literature, novels etc
- Always be suspicios of text with short references
- How does this text relate to this other text
- How does this author relate to this author
We also talked about the reasons for 'Why is reading difficult?" some of them included:
Our education rewards surface reading.
I have to say that I agree with this as our educational system often tests students on what we have memorized or remember. We are rarely taught to engage with the materials and relate it to ourselves.
Failure to adjust reading strategies.
We only read when we have to, and reading for fun or for examinations are different from reading journal articles, which brings to another reason as to why reading can be difficult which is difficult in reading different genre.
However, there are strategies to overcome these problems:
- Pre-teaching; to build requisite knowledge
- Integrating something new to the already known
- Highlighting the structure of the materials to be learned by breaking them into clear components
- 'Providing packets of factoids' (it limits learning as students are spoonfed by the teachers)
Schematic Knowledge Reading Strategies:
- Read and think aloud
- Write notes or thoughts
- Integrate the new to the known
- Break components into smaller parts
- Ask questions
- Retell
There are 3 main types of connections:
1. Text to self
(Relating it to yourself)
- How do I feel about it?
- No education filter yet
2. Text to world
(What you know about the world around you)
- Sociocultural background
- How does it work in 'your' surrounding
- How does it limit or extend your knowledge
- Locate yoursef (middle class/ working class/ urban/ rural)
- Locate the author
- Lived experiences
3. Text to text
(Out of your field, things you have read)
- Experience with works of literature, novels etc
- Always be suspicios of text with short references
- How does this text relate to this other text
- How does this author relate to this author
We also talked about the reasons for 'Why is reading difficult?" some of them included:
Our education rewards surface reading.
I have to say that I agree with this as our educational system often tests students on what we have memorized or remember. We are rarely taught to engage with the materials and relate it to ourselves.
Failure to adjust reading strategies.
We only read when we have to, and reading for fun or for examinations are different from reading journal articles, which brings to another reason as to why reading can be difficult which is difficult in reading different genre.
However, there are strategies to overcome these problems:
- Pre-teaching; to build requisite knowledge
- Integrating something new to the already known
- Highlighting the structure of the materials to be learned by breaking them into clear components
- 'Providing packets of factoids' (it limits learning as students are spoonfed by the teachers)
Schematic Knowledge Reading Strategies:
- Read and think aloud
- Write notes or thoughts
- Integrate the new to the known
- Break components into smaller parts
- Ask questions
- Retell
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