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How to Actively Read E-Text Using Kurzweil Introduction The novel, ‘Call of the Wild’, by Jack London will be used to demonstrate how to read e-text using a variety of pre-reading and guided/active reading strategies. These reading strategies were selected as they work well with Kurzweil. Electronic text or e-text by definition has become the preferred format for many students and an essential format for most students with print disabilities. PC Magazine.com defines it as, ‘An educational or instructional book in digital form. As more students use their laptops and smartphones on a daily basis, e-textbooks are increasingly taking the place of printed books’. The intention of this presentation is to make you aware of how you can use the same pre-reading and active/guided strategies that you already use with your students but using e-text. It is also to make you aware that you only have to know a few of the tools in Kurzweil to be successful when teaching reading to students. The tools required for each activity are located to the left of the tutorial. We hope you have fun with it and get hooked on e-reading. If you have Kurzweil on your computer please print this tutorial or have another computer open so that you can try out the various strategies that are enclosed in this tutorial. PLEASE NOTE: In the presentation there are three folders that are used to contain the reading materials. They are as follows:

1. How to Actively Read E-Text Participant Folder – inside this folder are two other folders. They contain the reading strategies. They have been separated into folders as follows:

a. Pre-Reading Activities folder and b. Active Reading Activities folder.

IN THIS DOCUMENT, YOU WILL FIND THE FOLLOWING SECTIONS:

• Before You Begin: E-Text Resources and Printing to the KESI Virtual Printer • Section One: Pre-Reading Strategies Activities 1-5 • Section Two: Active or Guided Reading Strategies – Activities 1-10 • Section Three: Post Reading Strategies - Activity 1

Printing Tip: This resource package is intended to be printed using the double-sided setting on your printer. Intentional blank pages have been inserted.


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Before you Begin: E-Text Resources Activtiy 1

To start supporting students with e-text, you need to know where to locate it. Below is a list of websites where you can find e-text. Check out each site and to see what types of resources and formats are available.

ARC-BC – Access to ARC-BC is limited to registered users only. Registration is available to those individuals in participating BC school districts who are:

• students with a perceptual disability who are currently enrolled in a BC public or independent K-12 school, or

• educators supporting such students Arthur’s Classic Novels – a website with 4000 classic novels Bibliomania -has more than 2,000 free classic texts, plus research works. In HTML format, readable by

your web browser Bookstacks – the eBook are released as a public domain PDF file. Most of the files are from Project

Gutenburg Kurzweil Classic Literature CD – this CD comes with Kurzweil when you purchase it. There are 1,800

electronic texts that have been selected from public domain material. Manybooks.net - There are more than 29,000 eBooks available at this site. Many of the books are from

Project Gutenburg but there are also public domain and creative commons works from many other sources.

Project Gutenburg

- The ebooks on this website are in the Canadian public domain. They are free for download

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Before You Begin: Printing to the KESI Virtual Printer Activity 2

Now that you have the e-text….now what? Before you can begin any activity you need to print the doc, txt, rtf, pdf or HTM to the KESI Virtual Printer so that your student(s) can use it. The KESI Virtual Printer is a utility that is built into Kurzweil 3000. It doesn’t actually print anything to paper but will convert Word .docs, txt, rtf, PDFs, HTM, HTML etc. and opens them in Kurzweil 3000. When the document is converted to a .kes file the student will have access to all the Reading and Writing features available in Kurzweil. Open the Word document Call of the Wild_Chapter 1.doc from the Participant folder. At this point this is a Read Only file. Go to File Print Select Printer. From the list of printers select the KESI Virtual Printer. Click OK.

The file is now printed into Kurzweil. In this activity the file is converted from a .doc to a .kes file. Once the file has been converted spend a couple of minutes exploring the Reading Toolbar. Select a Speaker, Reading Mode, Reading Unit, Speed and Zoom. When working with your students, make sure you allow them time to adjust the tools on the Reading Toolbar to suit his/her reading needs. If you are doing whole class instruction model it for them. Speed up the reading, slow down the reading, change the reading units and ask them if it should be adjusted and why. Once you have finished making adjustments to the Reading Toolbar save the chapter as Chapter 1_Call of the Wild.kes so that you can use it for other activities. Save it in your Participant folder so you can find it later.


Section One: Pre-Reading Strategies In this section, you will find the following activities.

• Activity 1: KWL Chart

• Activity 2: Book Cover

• Activity 3: Text Organizer

• Activity 4a: Part 1 - Vocabulary Development (Direct Instruction)



• Activity 4b: Part 1 - Vocabulary Development (Indirect Instruction) • Activity 4b: Part 2 - Vocabulary Development (Indirect Instruction)

• Activity 5: Chapter Summaries


Pre-Reading Strategies: KWL Chart Activity 1

Open the KWL Chart Before you can begin this activity you need to print the KWL Chart to the KESI Virtual

Printer. Open the .pdf of the Activity 1 from the Pre-Reading Activities.

Send Document to Virtual Printer Go to File Print Select Printer. From the list of printers select the KESI Virtual

Printer. Click OK.

The file is now printed into Kurzweil. In this example the file is converted from a .pdf to a .kes file.

Pick a Topic Choose either the Klondike or the Arctic as the topic for this activity.

From the Study Skills Toolbar, use either a Text or a Voice Note to answer the questions “What I Know” and “What I want to know” about the Klondike or the Arctic.

Extended Activity Can you think of another activity where the KESI Virtual Printer would be beneficial? Is

there another tool that you could use to answer the questions in this activity?

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Book Cover Activity 2

Open the File Open Chapter 1 – Call of the Wild.kes. (This the file that you just converted to a

KESI file).

Locate the Cover.

Read Click on the Read button.

Is the title and author being read aloud? If not you will have to add a Sticky Note or a Text Note to the Cover page. In the Sticky Note or the Text Note type “Can Buck Resist the Lure of the Wolves? The Call of the Wild by Jack London”.

Predict: Add a Note You are now ready to start the activity. Read the Title and Author’s name on the

Cover. Write or record the book title and author’s name in a Text Note or a Voice Note. Based on the information and the picture on the cover make one prediction about what you think the book will be about.

Extended Activity Write a Text Note or record a Voice Note reason why you made the prediction.

Hint: You can set the page Zoom and make Kurzweil remember the page size so that it doesn’t resize the document each time it is opened. To do this, adjust the size of the page to the desired size. When you are happy with the page view go to View Page View Remember. This will keep your current view. You can also change the Zoom Value for all your documents. Each time you open a document the zoom will be the same as the value you set. To do this, go to Tools Options General – and set My Zoom Value to 150%. The next time you open a document the Zoom will be automatically set to 150%.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Text Organizer Activity 3

Open the File Open the Pre-Reading Activities folder in the Participant folder and locate Activity 3.

Print to Virtual Printer Print the table of contents to the KESI Virtual Printer.

Read Once the Table of Contents is printed into Kurzweil use the Read button to read the

title of the chapter.

Predict Using a Text or a Voice Note make a prediction about what the chapter will be

about.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Vocabulary Development (Direct Instruction) Activity 4a For this activity the following vocabulary words will be used: Arctic, demesne, Klondike, calamity, retaliated, ferocity, swarthy, ashamed.

Open the File From the Pre-Reading Activities folder open Activity 4a.

Select a highlighter and highlight the 8 key words listed above.

Extract Highlights Click on File and select Extract Notes and Highlights.

The words are extracted to a new document.

Define Put the cursor in front of the first word and click on the Definition tool from the Main

Toolbar.

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Copy and Paste Select the definition. Drag-and-drop or copy- and-paste the definition beside the

extracted word.

Continue steps 3 and 4 for the rest of the words.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Vocabulary Development (Direct Instruction) Activity 4a This activity is student driven. The student selects new or interesting vocabulary from the text from the Pre-Reading Activities folder.

Open the File Open the Pre-Reading Activities folder in the Participant folder and locate Activity 4b.

Select 8-10 new or interesting words from the text using a highlighter.

Extract Highlights

Click on File and select Extract Notes and Highlights.

The words are extracted to a new document.

Write a Story The words are extracted to a new document. Using these words, write a brief story about the words.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Vocabulary Development (Direct Instruction) Activity 4a For this activity the following vocabulary words will be used: Arctic, demesne, Klondike, calamity, retaliated, ferocity, swarthy, ashamed.

Open the File From the Pre-Reading Activities folder open Activity 4a.

Select a highlighter and highlight the 8 key words listed above.

Extract to Column Notes Click on File and select Extract Highlights to Column Notes.

Ensure that your highlight colour is extracted. Click OK.

Open a new notes file. Click OK.


Toolbar. Select the definition. Drag-and-drop or copy- and-paste the definition beside the extracted word. Continue steps 3 and 4 for the rest of the words.

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Extended Activity You can do a variety of things in the third column. You can write the page number

where the word was found, write a sentence using the word, find a synonym etc.

If you think of some other ideas for ways to use column three please share them.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Vocabulary Development (Indirect Instruction) Activity 4b This activity is student driven. The student selects new or interesting vocabulary from the text from the Pre-Reading Activities folder.

Open the File Open the Pre-Reading Activities folder in the Participant folder and locate Activity 4b.


Extract Highlights Click on File and select Extract Notes and Highlights. The words are extracted to a

new document.


Toolbar. Copy and paste the definitions into the new document for all the extracted words.

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Write Compose a sentence for each of the words.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Vocabulary Development (Indirect Instruction) Activity 4b This activity is student driven. The student selects new or interesting vocabulary from the text from the Pre-Reading Activities folder.

Open the File Open the Pre-Reading Activities folder in the Participant folder and locate Activity 4b

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Extract Click on File and select Extract Annotations. The words are extracted to a new

document.

Synonym Put the cursor in front of the first word and click on the Synonym tool from the Main

Toolbar. Copy and paste the synonym into the new document for all the extracted words.

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Write Compose a sentence for each of the synonyms.

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Pre-Reading Strategies: Chapter Summaries Activity 5

Google and explore a few of the websites listed below. The following websites have chapter summaries of novels. See if you can find a summary of a book that you will be using with your class or your student. • Wiki Summaries • Novel Guide • Grade Saver • Spark Notes • Shmoop • Book Wolf • eNotes •

CliffNotes

Open the File Open the Pre-Reading Activities folder in the Participant folder and locate Activity 5.

Read Read the summary.

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Section Two: Active or Guided Reading Strategies In this section, you will find the following activities.

• Activity 1: Reading Log Journal

• Activity 2: Sticky Notes

• Activity 3: One Sentence Summary

• Activity 4: Highlighting

• Activity 5: Bookmarks • Activity 6: Stop and Predict • Activity 7: Question and Answer Relationship • Activity 8: Concept Mapping • Activity 9: Story Map • Activity 10: Buddy Reading


Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Reading Log Journal Activity 1

Create a New Document Click on the New button on the main toolbar to create a new word processing

document. Include the title, name, date and information that this is a free response that can have questions, thoughts, ideas, personal experiences etc. about what has been read.

Example To get an idea of what a Reading Log might look like you can check out the

example in the Active Reading Folder – Activity 1.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Sticky Notes Activity 2

Open the File For this activity open the Activity 2 that is located in the Active Reading folder.

Use Sticky Notes Select the Sticky Note tool from the Study Skills Toolbar.

Stick Place a sticky note beside some text and write one question or comment in the

Sticky Note.

Extended Activity Questions and comments on the Sticky Notes can include: explanation of the

theme, summary of a thought, connect a personal experience to the text, a statement that you found powerful and a reason why you found it powerful, etc. Have you used or can you think of other questions or comments that could be used on a Sticky Note activity?

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: One Sentence Summary Activity 3


Read Click on the Read button and read through the chapter.

Create a List of Words Create a list of words that are associated with the text and write these in a Text or

Voice Note.

One Sentence Summary When you are finished adding words create one sentence that summarizes the section

from the list of words that you have selected.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Highlighting Activity 4


Read Click on the Read button and read the first two paragraphs.

Highlight Main Idea Select the Yellow Highlighter from the Study Skills toolbar and use it to highlight

the main idea in the two paragraphs.

Highlight Supporting Details Select the Green Highlighter from the Study Skills toolbar and use it to highlight the

supporting details in the two paragraphs.

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Highlight New Words Select the Blue or Pink Highlighter from the Study Skills toolbar and use it to highlight

unfamiliar words.

Extract Highlights Click on File and select Extract Highlights to Column Notes. Check to make sure that the

highlights will be extracted to three columns.

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Extract to New Notes File Extract the highlights to a new notes file and click OK.

Column Notes Your highlighted notes have now been extracted into the Column Notes.

Extract to Outline Select the Yellow Highlighter from the Study Skills toolbar and use it to highlight

the main idea in the two paragraphs.

Outline The notes now appear in an outline format.

You can now use these notes to assist with writing a paper or for studying for an upcoming test. You can also use highlighters to highlight key ideas or use different colored highlighters to show different parts of speech, opinions, problems, solutions, etc. Can you think of another way that you might use highlighters?

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Bookmarks Activity 5 Bookmarks can be used to move quickly throughout a novel or text or locate information on characters, plot, theme, etc. In this activity you will locate information about the character Buck.

Open the File For this activity open the Activity 5 file that is located in the Active Reading folder.

Find A quick way to find specific words is to use the Find feature.

Press CTRL + F. The search bar appears at the bottom of the page. Type the word ‘Buck’ in the field.

The word ‘Buck’ will be highlighted blue in the text.

Add a Bookmark From the Study Skills toolbar click on Bookmark.

Label a Bookmark In the Bookmarks window, label the bookmark and click on Add.

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Bookmark The highlight disappears and the Bookmark icon now appears in front of the word

‘Buck’.

Find More Click on Find Next. It is located to the right of the search field at the bottom of the

page. The find feature will locate the next time ‘Buck’ appears in the text and highlight it.

Bookmark Read the text and see if it pertains to Buck’s character. If it does, add another bookmark. Continue this process until you have enough information to write about Buck’s character.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Stop and Predict Activity 6 During the ‘Stop and Predict’ strategy students read to the end of the selection and then they make a prediction about what they have read. They can write or record their prediction.

Open the File For this activity open Activity 6 file that is located in the Active Reading folder.

Open Bubble Note Double-click on the Bubble Note (purple question mark icon) to preview a prompt.

Add a Bubble Note Click Tools Note Add Bubble Note…

Design a Bubble Note Try a few of the settings until you design the bubble note to your liking. Click

Preview to see what the bubble note will look like in the document. Click OK to insert the bubble note into the document.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Question and Answer Relationship Activity 7 In the Question/Answer Relationship activity the student creates three Text Notes or a Sticky Notes at the end of the reading. They write one question per box.

• A Right There question

• A Think and Search question and

• An On My Own question


Open Bubble Note Double-click on the Bubble Note (purple question mark icon) to preview a prompt.

Students can enter their responses directly into the bubble note.

Add a Bubble Note Click Tools Note Add Bubble Note…

Design a Bubble Note Try a few of the settings until you design the bubble note to your liking. Click

Preview to see what the bubble note will look like in the document. Click OK to insert the bubble note into the document. Add a few of your own.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Concept Mapping Activity 8 For this activity you are going to have the text on one side and a brainstorm web on the other. To do this you need to vertically tile the text.


New Document Create a new document by clicking the ‘New’ icon on the Main Toolbar.

From the Writing toolbar, select the Brainstorm view for your new document.

Split Screen To view two documents side-by-side in Kurzweil, you have to have two documents

opened at the same time. From the menu bar, click on Window Tile Vertically.

Concept Mapping You can develop the web by finding information related to character, plot,

setting, theme, or any ideas or thoughts that they have about the section that has been read.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Story Map Activity 9 For this activity you are going to have the text on one side and a brainstorm web on the other. To do this you need to vertically tile the text.


Text or Voice Notes Use Text or Voice Notes from the Study Skills toolbar to fill in the Story Map.

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Active or Guided Reading Strategies: Buddy Reading Activity 10 For this activity you are going to have the text on one side and a brainstorm web on the other. To do this you need to vertically tile the text.


Read With a buddy, read through the chapter.

Bubble Notes When you arrive at Bubble Notes (purple question mark icon), double click to open

the note and answer the question.

Extract Your Answers Extract your answers to a new document: File Extract Notes and Highlights

Bubble Notes

Be sure to add your date and name(s) before printing or submitting your responses.

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Section Three: After Reading In this section, you will find the following activity.

• E-Text Pre-Reading and Active/Guided Reading Checklist


E-Text Pre-Reading and Active/Guided Reading Checklist This checklist is intended to guide you through selecting pre-reading and active reading strategies that can be used with your student(s) while reading electronic text. Remember you can use one strategy or as many strategies as you want. Title of Book or Article: Date: Pre-Reading Skills

KWL – What I know, What I want to know, What I learned – PDF/Word document in the Support Materials section of this resource package.

Book Cover – will need to get an image of the book cover to complete this activity Text Organizer – Table of Contents, Index or Glossary. You will need to get this information from

the book or from the internet. Vocabulary Development – Teacher selects words in teacher-driven activities and student selects

words for student driven vocabulary development activities. Chapter Summary – obtain the chapter summary from any of the websites that have been suggested

in the PowerPoint Active Reading Skills

Reading Log/Journal – depending on your student you can either create an outline or get them to create a Reading Log/Journal each time they open Kurzweil

Sticky Notes/Comments One Sentence Summary Highlighting – determine what needs to be highlighted Bookmarks – mark the end of a selection – place an instruction/question for the student to answer Stop and Predict – place a bookmark, question, comment to mark the end of a selection of text -

student makes a prediction Question Answer Relationship (QAR) – needs to be taught Concept Mapping/Webbing/Brainstorming – vertical tiling/side by side then either Brainstorm in

Kurzweil Story Map – choose one of the story maps from the Support Materials section of this resource

package Partner Reading – need to insert questions into the text

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