2008年12月25日 星期四

Annotation 4

1. Before-During-After (BDA) Reading Strategies

Instructional Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension in Any Subject Area
(Source: http://www.pde.state.pa.us/reading_writing/cwp/view.asp?Q=97891&A=196)

The article above mentions a complete reading strategy includes three phases.
During my paper, I focus on the last phase, after reading. That is why I offer the other link↓

2. Before-During-After (BDA) Reading Strategies

A - After (Post Reading)
(Source: http://www.pde.state.pa.us/reading_writing/cwp/view.asp?a=196&q=97933)

From the article, we can find out that we need to write down some information after reading, to not only improve understanding but also test whether we really know or not. We can share with the class and discuss with our partner, and then write down what we get from the communicating. It can help us to catch some points we miss or ignore from the book or article.
We also can set up a reflection activity. The value of reflection is evident when it brings about an awareness of new learning; it also helps if there is an opportunity for the students to make use of their reflections in some future task, or when the teacher directs students to connect some reflections sequentially as part of a summarization activity.
In conclusion, writing after reading is helpful for people to comprehend. Besides, doing some activities such as writing work sheet can make our reading complete. We may rethink what we have read, and we also may discuss with other people to exchange ideas. We can gain more then just reading without doing post-reading activities hence.

2 則留言:

Beverly 提到...

Your material is very good, and the reflections after we read books are important, because sometimes when we read books, we would forget about the context about one or two weaks, if we write reflections, it can remind us about what we have read.

Dimitri HSU 提到...

If we depend totally on short term memory and don't take notes while reading, we always forget the instinctive clicks of thoughts, making them flow away. But if we take notes or answer some designed questions, not only do we remember the precious thoughts but have chances to reflect on them and then develop more novel ideas from the bases we have built.