Reading Materials

• Reading materials


  Portray particular themes or meanings
• Schema


  Our background knowledge and experiences
• Students can comprehend stories when made some kind of connection
• Text to self


  Text and your life experiences, previous experiences, emotion, and opinion
• Text to text

  Current text and another text that you read, from similar author, theme, topic, or genre
• Text to world

  Text and world events, our perception of the world
• Annotating

  To make a mark on a text, helps comprehend what you are reading
• Flexibility


  • Willingness to try new things
• Speed

  • Rapidly grasping new ideas
• Experimenting


  • Testing out new ideas
• Performance risk-taking

  • Taking on challenges
• Interpersonal risk-taking

  • Asking others for help
• Collaborating

  • Leveraging the skills of others
• Information gathering

  • Increasing your knowledge
• Feedback seeking

  • Asking for feedback
• Reflecting

  • Taking the time to reflect on your effectiveness