E-reading: Effective Literacy Strategies
in the Digital Classroom
Karen Nitzkin Reading Specialist & Humanities Dept. Chair
24%
42%
31%
3%
Below Basic Basic Proficient Advanced
Nationwide 8th grade reading levels
Source: National Assessment for Educational Progress
Motivation
Engagement
Distractions
Assessments
What everyone says are the causes…
The Diagnosis
Students need help when and while they read
5 keys to working one-on-one…
Question: Ask students questions to check for understanding and focus on main ideas
5 keys to working one-on-one…
Question: Ask students questions to check for understanding and focus on main ideas
Be a Resource: Provide background information to fill gaps in student knowledge and define words they do not understand
5 keys to working one-on-one…
Question: Ask students questions to check for understanding and focus on main ideas
Be a Resource: Provide background information to fill gaps in student knowledge and define words they do not understand
Discuss: Talk through important parts of the book as students read
5 keys to working one-on-one…
Question: Ask students questions to check for understanding and focus on main ideas
Be a Resource: Provide background information to fill gaps in student knowledge and define words they do not understand
Discuss: Talk through important parts of the book as students read
Diagnose: Understand the skills where students have trouble to address them more frequently
5 keys to working one-on-one…
Question: Ask students questions to check for understanding and focus on main ideas
Be a Resource: Provide background information to fill gaps in student knowledge and define words they do not understand
Discuss: Talk through important parts of the book as students read
Diagnose: Understand the skills where students have trouble to address them more frequently
Make accountable: Ensure the student knows you know exactly what work he or she has done
Two Solutions that bring the power of one-to-one to the classroom…
Digital Think Alouds
Actively Learn
Think Aloud
Directed Reading and Thinking Ac4vity
Eavesdropping on someone's thinking. Purpose for teachers:
Model how skilled readers extract and construct meaning from a text.
Purpose for students: Demonstrate the meaning they are
extracting and constructing as they read.
Think Alouds
Teacher Think Aloud Model
Student Think Aloud Model
Digital Think Alouds
Question: Show students the questions I am asking as I read Be a resource: Explain key parts of the book in your model for students. Discuss: Close reading/practice with partners Make accountable: Share with peers and teacher Diagnose: Rubric shows students where they need improvement
Paper-Based DRTA
Actively Learn Example
Question
Embed questions in the text that
function as gates; students must answer before
proceeding to read
Be a resource
Embed notes with multimedia to
provide additional information to fill gaps in students’
background knowledge.
Discuss
Students can see their peer
responses to questions and can start a discussion thread with their
peers.
Diagnose
See all the student annotations. (It is
like a virtual copy of their book.)
See where students have
marked the text as too difficult.
Analyze
Track student progress by all types of measures: • Time spent
reading • Stamina • Common Core
skills • # of Notes
Make Accountable
See where every student is in the
book
Demo
Try it out for yourself
http://read.activelylearn.com
Q & A
