Wednesday, February 6, 2008

The buzz word "Active" Reading, what does it mean to you?

So today in class we were talking about being Active Readers, though one student doesn't like the term.

When you are reading for a purpose other than pleasure, what types of thoughts go through your head???

The book, Mini-Lessons for Literature Circles, says smart readers do the following things:
  • Visualize
  • Connect
  • Question
  • Infer
  • Evaluate
  • Analyze
  • Recall,
  • and Self-Monitor, though I think Adjust is a better word.

What do these strategies mean to you? do you use them? when? What would you call this practice?