Translate

domenica 3 aprile 2016

Think Aloud and Reading



                               An  Italian MOOC   

"Stop and think. Modeling the process of Online Reading Comprehension Using Think Aloud "

The course which I  attended  online was run by the University of Florence ( ITALY)  THINK ALOUD I DO PRESENTATION
SUPPMOODLE.MED  -http://suppmoodle.med.unifi.it/login/index.php- under the tutorship of  STEFANIA CARIOLI    https://unifi.academia.edu/stefaniacarioli https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefania-carioli-985b4349  who is working at the Department "DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE DELL’EDUCAZIONE E DEI PROCESSI CULTURALI E FORMATIVI"  there.


I was given  the link to the MOOC by chance as  the school where I am currently teaching  sent me an  email about this course. I had not heard much  about   THINK ALOUD so I found that it might be interesting for me to learn more about  it as the topic of the course was  Online Reading Comprehension.

More and more technology is changing our way of working and learning and I thought that I should  widen my horizon and get to know more  about  the methodologies can help our learners to cope with reading difficulties. Reading goes beyond silent reading: reading aloud, thinking aloud and asking questions are now great strategies to understand a text while reading. This is particularly true when we read online and study and search online.




As a teacher of English and German I am always  struggling when I  need to teach the reading  skills in the foreign languages I teach: poor literacy skills and the lack of interest in what we are doing can have a negative impact on our learners, especially when you work  in difficult and marginalized areas in your town or  city.  Reading  skills  require  special techniques and  THINK ALOUD is a great approach as our  learners become involved in the process of reading and which is based on different levels of reading . The role of the  teacher is vital as teachers  provide help  and support .

The model we were provided and which we learnt about  was based on these  principles:


                                                 Modeling
                                Guided Practice
                                Reflecting

Reading will be focussed on the structure of the text ( a poem, an article or an extract taken from a novel,  an article on the internet after you have googled the topic you are interested in), the vocabulary and the writer's attitude  in the text. What kind of text is it?  

The role of the teacher is  crucial as he/she will present the main approach to reading and how to grasp the techniques in reading a text or comparing texts. These techniques are required in the  process of  reading online texts and in selecting texts  from the internet for studying .   

I was guided in learning about  HOW TO WORK  with  THINK ALOUD but I also  searched online and discovered that teachers have been sharing a lot of experiences dealing with reading and reading  strategies.

MODELING WAYS - THINK ALOUD  ( Video from Youtube)




Resources online and interesting videos for  educators

http://www.edutopia.org/blog/evaluating-quality-of-online-info-julie-coiro
http://www.digitalpromise.org/page/-/dpdocuments/microcredentials/mc_evaluatingonlineinfo.pdf?nocdn=1    ( Evaluating online information)

http://www.readwritethink.org/professional-development/strategy-guides/teacher-read-aloud-that-
30799.html

https://www.teachervision.com/read-aloud/video/74734.html

THINK ALOUD ONLINE   ( video on the Youtube)



INTERACTIVE READ ALOUD  ( Video on the Youtube)





https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/theories-of-character



Bringing Close Reading and Text-Based Questions into an Interactive Read Aloud of Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! (K-2) from TC Reading and Writing Project on Vimeo.



THINK ALOUD COMPREHENSION STRATEGY




THINK ALOUD - I DO DEMONSTRATE




VISUALIZE A TEXT WHILE READING




My ideas about reading  and  thinking aloud
I was asked to develop an activity where students would have to  use  THINK ALOUD strategies. I had to develop this activity in the fourth week of the course and my idea was to focus on the theme of war by using some texts online : a poem  by Ruper Brooke and poem by  Vera Brittain and an extract from her autobiography.
I decided to create an online presentation which I am sharing with you.

My approach was based on a close reading of the texts in English by guiding the students about how to work online and also by using
an online tool  www.lingro.com  for checking meanings and words online while reading. 

LINGRO USED IN LANGUAGE LEARNING ( video from youtube)




After reading the texts I would have the  students write about what they have learnt and ,in particular, they should  compare the two different  attitudes  towards  war. While Rupert Brooke thought that he should be a soldier and also die for his country, the  woman's attitude is different as she has seen most of her  beloved have died. 

This is the text by R.Brooke: I have also used the video with the reading aloud of an English actress as reading aloud means listening to words and trying to understand and guessing.
 





Here is my video for presenting the importance of reading skills by using  Powtoon:





Here is my  presentation used by using  GOOGLE SLIDES for the activity in unit 4 of the MOOC:






Here is my video presentation for week4:




Nessun commento:

Posta un commento