Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
When to use:
- focus on critical thinking
- focus on predictions - to encourage students to make connections as they read
How to use:
1. Teacher introduces reading/ text. Be sure to activate background knowledge. It may help to write students' ideas on the
board.
2. Have students make predictions. Ask questions sch as:
* What do you expect the main idea of this article will be?
* From the title, do you anticipate that the author will be for or against?
* Will this short story have a happy or tragic ending?
3. Read the text and stop at predetermined places and ask the students to check and revise their predictions. This is the most
important step in the process.
4. At several points during the reading, ask students to stop and consider these questions:
* What do you know so far from this reading? (summarize)
* How do you know it? (cite evidence from the text)
* What do you expect to read next? (predict)
5. After reading is complete, use student predictions as a way to get discussion over the reading started. "W hat did you expect
to happen when ...." "At the beginning did you think...."
- focus on critical thinking
- focus on predictions - to encourage students to make connections as they read
How to use:
1. Teacher introduces reading/ text. Be sure to activate background knowledge. It may help to write students' ideas on the
board.
2. Have students make predictions. Ask questions sch as:
* What do you expect the main idea of this article will be?
* From the title, do you anticipate that the author will be for or against?
* Will this short story have a happy or tragic ending?
3. Read the text and stop at predetermined places and ask the students to check and revise their predictions. This is the most
important step in the process.
4. At several points during the reading, ask students to stop and consider these questions:
* What do you know so far from this reading? (summarize)
* How do you know it? (cite evidence from the text)
* What do you expect to read next? (predict)
5. After reading is complete, use student predictions as a way to get discussion over the reading started. "W hat did you expect
to happen when ...." "At the beginning did you think...."
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Fisher, D., Brozo, W.G., Frey, N, & Ivey, G. (2011). 50 instructional routines to develop content literacy (Second edition).
Boston, MA: Pearson.
Boston, MA: Pearson.