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Creative and Critical Thinking

ASSIGNMENT 3: Active Reading

Learning Target (Curricular Competencies):

  • Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
  • Apply appropriate strategies to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts

Task:

Always read with a purpose whether you're seeking to understand an author or simply for pleasure.  Watch the presentation below to learn about reading strategies for

  • before (Preview, Activate previous knowledge, Write down wonders, Set a speed) and
  • during (visualizing, predicting etc.) and
  • after your reading.

Put your skills to use! Click here for an article. Read through it using the skills you have just learned (Before and During Reading). When you are finished, write an informal, point form response regarding the assignment. You can structure as follows:

Reading Strategies

  1. Before you began (PAWS)
    1. What part of PAWS helped??
    2. What part didn't help as much?
  2. During the reading
    1. What part of PAWS helped?
    2. What part didn't help as much?
  3. After
    1. Do you feel that, overall, the strategies helped you understand the article better?
    2. What would you do differently next time?

Article: Internet Vital Homework Tool

Remember, this is just one active reading strategy you can use to gain better comprehension of text.  Another strategy is called SQ3R - Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review.  Check it out.  You might like it better.

Assessment:  Below you will find the exemplary criteria used to assess the assignment.  

Learning Target: (Exemplary 6/6): Exemplary comprehension of the task and clear accomplishment of the objective.  Student demonstrates exemplary active reading skills to comprehend and respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways.  All activities are complete. Ideas generated are thoughtful and unique.

Written Expression:  Exemplary (6/6):  Sentence structure and vocabulary are varied, skillfully written, and carefully chosen.  Work has been proofread and there are few or no errors in spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.  Content contributes to the central idea and makes insightful connections with logical organization.

Submission:

Use the "1.3 Active Reading" link on the main page of this section of the course to upload your assignment to your teacher for marking.