Session entitled "Bringing the Outside In" shared at BLC 09 in Boston

1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/208005978/in/photostream/
Bringing the Outside In
skajderblc09.pbworks.com

3. Youth practices with digital media involve:
Authentic Audience
Knowledge Creation
Multimodal Representation
Interest-Driven Participation

5. What skilled readers do...
Activate and connect to prior knowledge
Ask questions
Make inferences
Visualize
Summarize
Synthesize

8. Instructional Challenge #1: Find readers.

9. Instructional Challenge #2:
Book Talks and Book Reviews

10. “In here, we’re supposed to use the computer to
get stuff out...not put stuff in...”
- Doug, 2nd period, 11 on-level

11. Example book trailer here

12. Example book trailer here

13. Instructional Challenge #3: Summarizing

14. Somebody Wanted But So

19. Instructional Challenge #3: Engaging the Text

20. “Say Something Silently”
Make a prediction.
Ask questions.
Clarify.
Make a comment.
Make a connection.

22. Instructional Challenge #4: Think Alouds

23. “Visualizing, making meaning by means
of mental images, is the paradigm of all
acts of mind. Students who learn to
look and look again are discovering
their powers.”
- Anne Berthoff (1980) The Making of Meaning

24. Reciting Voice
Reader’s Voices
Conversation Voice
- Chris Tovani (2004) Do I Really have to Teach Reading?

25. “Without a visual model, there will be nothing for
students to think with, nothing to think about.”
- Jeff Wilhelm (1995), “Reading is Seeing,” Journal of Reading Behavior

26. Category of Activity Strategy Instructional Time
Teacher modeled think aloud Day One - 20-30 minutes
Pre-Reading
Class discussion of strategies Day One - 20 minutes
Begin reflective reading log Day One Homework
Sparks Collection Day Two - 45 minutes
Evaluate Questions (thick/thin) Day Two - 10 minutes
During Reading
Think-Pair-Share Discussions Day Three - 55 minutes
Storyboard and Gather images Day Three and homework
Script Writing Day Four - 40 minutes
Arrange and Sequence Images Day Four/Five - 10 minutes
Construction Record Narration Day Five - 90 minutes available
Special effects, transitions, etc. Day Six - 90 minutes available
Culmination Screening and Discussion Day Six/Seven - 90 minutes available

28. What is next?