Scaffolding Reading Experiences to Promote Success: A Flexible Approach to Fostering Comprehension
(Source: http://cehd.umn.edu/CAREI/Reports/Rpractice/Winter95/comprehension.html)by Michael Graves, professor and head of the Literacy Education Program at the University of Minnesota, and Bonnie Graves, a freelance writer specializing in instructional materials and fiction for children.
The article mentions that the Directed Reading Activity (DRA), a preset plan for teaching basal reading selections. It says a scaffold reading experience is a flexible framework for planning reading experiences in today's classrooms. A scaffolding reading experience has two phases. The first phase is planning, which contains reading selection and purposes reading. The second is implementation, which includes post-reading activities.
Pre-reading activities means to make students read what upcoming to read. During the activities, students can learn more than merely read only one book. It also can lead student remind what they already known and help them understand and enjoy the reading selection.
Post-reading activities serve many purposes. They provide opportunities for students to comprehend and organize information gather from the text so that they can understand and recall important points. They allow both teachers and students to evaluate students' understanding of the text. It also provides opportunities for students to respond to a text in a variety of ways-to reflect on the meaning of the text, to compare differing texts and ideas, to imagine themselves as characters in the text, to realize information from different.
Writing the work sheet is one of post-reading activities. The work sheet can provide a strong evidence to present their comprehension. That is to say, we can know whether the readers catch the key points from the article or not, and then to offer some effective advices for them. To conclude, from the article, we can gain a great evidence to show the work sheet is useful to help reading effectively.
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Post-reading and pre-reading are both important. But since your position paper mentioned that whether work sheet is important or not, I think you can put more importance on your topic.
In addition to in-put, out-put signifies. It equip readers with so many things you have mentioned. It;s very good to list the important ones of them. Maybe you could give us more specific examples in your final article.
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