The Purposeful Reading The Purposeful Reading Program:Program:
Building Literacy for Academic SuccessBuilding Literacy for Academic Success
Michele AtkinsAnn Singleton
Union UniversityJackson,
Tennessee
Lilly Conference 2013Oxford, OH
Objectives
• Interact with various strategies and techniques for increasing comprehension in the stages of pre-reading, reading, and post-reading
• Utilize various purposeful reading strategies to engage with discipline-specific text
• Discuss ways to incorporate purposeful reading strategies into his or her curriculum
Background InformationUniversity Admissions Requirements:
•22 ACT/1020 SAT (combined critical reading and math scores)•2.5 Core GPA•Top 50% of High School Class
Academic SupportAcademic Support
Purposeful Reading
Purposeful Reading
Warm-up
The Event
Debrief
Brainstorm& Predict
Question
Click
Clunk
Read Closely Skim & Posthole
Check VocabularyTopic Web
Write information in own words using different levels of
understanding
Warming Up with HIS 101
Figures and Tables give you an idea of important ideas because they are used to clarify information. Use this information to construct questions.
Look for words in bold and italics. Use them to write warm-up questions.
• Read the Summary/ Chapter Review.
• Write more warm-up questions based on the information.
Environment
Learning
Analyze Human
Behavior
Cognitivists View
Behaviorists View
Stages of development
Mental processes
memory
language
Problem solving
Classical conditioning
Observed behavior
Environment surrounding child affects learning
Operant conditioning
Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists have several viewpoints in common and differ on many others. Both are theories still used today but the cognitive theory is the most popular.Ideas that they have in common include:•The person’s environment plays a role in influencing behavior•Focus on the study of how people learn•Break down a person’s behavior in a situation to discover meaning and change•Research should be objective and based on evidence
Ways that behaviorists and cognitivists differ:Cognitivists•Subcategories include multiple intelligence, brain-based learning, and learner-centered instruction focus on the person as an active participant in the learning process•Place emphasis on cognitive processes (memory, language, problem solving), meaning, intentions, emotions, creativity, and stages of human developmentBehaviorists•Explain learning as only observable behavior which makes the person a passive recipient (through stimulus-response with environment) in the learning process•Emphasis on changing behavior by reward and punishment systems
Did it Work?
Change in Reading Comprehension
Source df MS F Sig.Pretest 1 1740.98 10.88 .002HS Type 1 388.28 2.43 .128ACT Category 1 467.07 2.92 .097Ethnicity 4 33.13 .21 .933Error 35 160.07Total 46
Analysis of Covariance
Predictor VariablesPredictor Variables
Predictor B SE t Sig.(Constant) 21.24 10.54 2.02 .050HS Type - 5.11 3.75 - 1.36 .180ACT Category 11.62 4.82 2.41 .020Pretest .57 .16 3.50 .001Ethnicity .64 1.09 .59 .559
Multiple Regression Analysis
How is This Information How is This Information Relevant to Me?Relevant to Me?
Making ConnectionsMaking Connections