the purposeful reading program: building literacy for academic success michele atkins ann singleton...

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