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Local organizing committee: Gen McArthur, Anne Castles, & Rauno Parrila Registration Deadline for Presenting Authors: Thursday, June 1st
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Remembering Carol Connor
We are saddened to announce that Carol Connor, our President Elect, passed away the morning of May 14, 2020 at her home in California, surrounded by the love of her husband and close family.
SSSR promotes the scientific study of reading and disseminates information about reading and related areas such as language and literacy. The society sponsors conferences and a scientific journal.
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Units, Tools, and Methods for Teaching Reading and Writing
A workshop curriculum - grades k-8, by lucy calkins and colleagues from tcrwp.
Dear Teachers, I couldn't be more delighted to be sharing this work with you. It is the understatement of a lifetime to say that Units of Study grow out of years of work in thousands of classrooms. This series also grows out of the greatest minds and most beautiful teaching that I've seen anywhere. To write the Units of Study, my colleagues at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project and I have done what teachers throughout the world do all the time. We’ve taken all that we know—the processes, sequences, continua, books, levels, lessons, methods, principles, strategies…the works—and we've made a path for children, a path that draws all we know into a cohesive, organic progression. Our hope is that this path brings children along to the place where they can write clearly and skillfully and read flexibly and joyfully—and can live together as caring, thoughtful readers and writers. Lucy Calkins
Reading for Study
Reading is a deceptive skill, for it is not a single process, but a number of processes. Thus, while you might be a fluent reader, in that you can swiftly and easily decode the letter-markings, and quickly access the meaning of the words, that doesn't mean you're a skilled reader of informational texts.
Reading effectively for information or instruction, unlike reading a story, needs to be a very active process, for comprehension is far more difficult than it is in the familiar format of a story. That's why so-called ' speed reading ' can be so problematic.
Reading "actively" involves:
- thinking about what you’re reading
- asking yourself questions about it
- trying to relate it to information you already know.
How well you do this depends in part on your understanding of the topic. Thus, you may be a skilled reader of philosophy texts, but be completely at a loss when confronted by a physics text.
Nor is it only a matter of content knowledge. How you go about your active reading also depends in part on the subject you're reading in. Reading scientific texts , for example, is very different from reading a history text; both require a different approach — different skills — compared to reading an economics text. And reading in a foreign language is, of course, different again.
Reading for study is difficult to separate from note-taking , for the active processing you need to do is helped considerably by note-taking strategies. The two go hand in hand, and more so the more difficult the text is.
Improving your reading skills, then, involves not simply improving reading skills themselves, but also:
- recognizing the different processes involved in reading, so that you can accurately pinpoint the source of your comprehension difficulties (for example, it may be simply a jargon issue - unfamiliarity with the specialist vocabulary used)
- increasing your knowledge and understanding of the topic
- improving your note-taking skills, so that you know the best way to approach different types of text, to organize the information for better understanding.
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Reading is a physic and mental activity to reveal the meaning of the written texts. Decoding requires translating the symbols of writing system (including Braille) into the spoken words which they represent
Reading is a deceptive skill, for it is not a single process, but a number of processes. Reading for study is difficult to separate from note-taking, for the active processing you need to do is helped considerably by note-taking strategies
Reading is a deceptive skill, for it is not a single process, but a number of processes. Reading for study is difficult to separate from note-taking, for the active processing you need to do is helped considerably by note-taking strategies
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