Online+Reading

=**Cool Tools and Hot Topics: Online Reading**=
 * Facilitated by: Julie Coiro**
 * Room: Nortel A**


 * Participants Will:**
 * learn how to structure think-alouds of skilled online reading using a four step flexible reading pla**n**
 * explore two scenarios that situate think-alouds in two different curriculum-based challenges
 * apply aspects of think-aloud strategy instruction to their own inquiry topics
 * practice thinking-aloud about online reading comprehension with a partner


 * Part 1: Think-Aloud Models for Four Stages of a Flexible Reading Plan (20 minutes) **
 * 1) Approaching online reading tasks
 * 2) Navigating and negotiating online texts
 * 3) Monitoring comprehension of and pathways through online texts
 * 4) Responding to online texts

Theory Into Practice (2011). > > > DOWNLOAD A PDF VERSION OF THE THINK-ALOUD SCRIPT FOR THESE TWO ACTIVITIES
 * Talking About Reading As Thinking: Modeling Online Reading Comprehension (**[|Journal Article] and [|Companion Website])
 * 1) Reading Efficiently to Locate Information: [|How many individuals of Japanese descent were moved to relocation centers during World War II?]
 * 2) Reading Critically to Negotiate Multiple Perspectives: [|How do different authors portray the Japanese internment camp experience to readers?]




 * Part 2. Try It Out (20 minutes) **


 * 1) **Choose one purpose**: (A) Reading Efficiently to Locate Online Information or (B) Reading Critically to Negotiate Multiple Perspectives
 * 2) **Choose a task/topic relevant in your curriculum**. Or...starter topics might include requiring school uniforms, changing the drinking age, legalizing marijuana.
 * 3) **Choose a partner.**
 * 4) **Conduct a search and think-aloud for your partne**r. Model/explain the strategies you use to make a plan, navigate search results,and/or negotiate big ideas across multiple perspectives.


 * Additional Ideas to Explore**
 * [|The Literacy Design Collaborative]: How to incorporate the common core into literacy curricula in middle and high school content areas.