Online+Reading+Comprehension


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Digging Deeper: Online Reading Comprehension** (T, W and TH) Don Leu, Julie Coiro, and Jill Castek

Leu, D. J., Jr., Coiro, J., Castek, J., Hartman, D. K., Henry, L. A., & Reinking, D. (2008). . In C. C. Block, S. Parris, and P. Afflerbach, (Eds.), //Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices (pp. 321-346)//. New York: Guilford Press.
 * //To get the most of our time together, please read the following chapter prior to our session, think about your own classroom scenarios, and come prepared to ask questions://**

//**Handouts:**// Download here [|TICA Basic Skills.pdf]

//**The Structure of Our Session**// >> // SHORT BREAK [10 mins]
 * I. Introductions and Overview of Online Reading Comprehension** [45 mins]
 * **Overview:** Research on Instruction and Assessment in the New Literacies of Online Reading Comprehension
 * **Challenge 1:** Reading Search Engine Results (Location)
 * **Challenge 2:** Reading Across Multiple Perspectives (Critical Evaluation and Synthesis)
 * II. Internet Reciprocal Teaching (IRT)** [35 mins]
 * Overview of Three Phases of IRT: (1) Teacher Led Instruction; (2) Collaborative Modeling; (3) Online Inquiry
 * Two Levels of Information Challenges for You
 * //** Part A: Find the height of Mt. Fuji; Find a different answer; Which answer do you consider accurate and why? **//
 * // **Part B: How do different authors portray the Japanese Internment Camp Experience to readers?**
 * Discussion and Reflection
 * Discussion and Reflection


 * III. Scaffolding the Online Inquiry Process ** [30 mins]
 * Local Inquiry
 * Global Inquiry


 * Additional Readings to Explore:**
 * Beach, R. & Doerr-Stevens, C. (2009). [[file:Beach IRA 2009 MPLS roleplay.doc|Reading Online Persuasive Texts to Write Online Persuasive Texts: Secondary and College Students’ Reading Practices in Online Role-play Activities.]] Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the International Reading Association, Minneapolis, MN.
 * Coiro, J. (2005). [[file:EdLeadership2005.pdf|Making sense of online text]]. //Educational Leadership, 63//, 30-35.
 * Coiro, J. (2009). [[file:Coiro EL2009.pdf|Rethinking online reading assessment]]. //Educational Leadership, 66,// 59-63.
 * Coiro, J. (2009). [|Instructional Strategies for Critically Evaluating Online Information]. Online workshop and handouts to support aspects of critical evaluation including evaluating relevancy, accuracy, reliability, and perspective.
 * Leu, D. J., O'Byrne, W. I., Zawilinski, L., McVerry, J. G., & Everett-Cocapardo, H. (2009). [[file:Leu et al ER 2009|Expanding the new literacies conversation]]. //Educational Researcher ,// 38, 264-269.

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 * Examples of Innovative Elementary School Teachers Integrating the Internet**
 * [[tilesig:missrumphiuswinners|Miss Rumphius Award Winners
 * [|Susan Silverman's Webfolio] (no longer updated, but TONS of Internet Project models and ideas)
 * [|Marci McGowan's First Grade]
 * [|Literacy Instruction with Digital Media and Technologies in a Fourth Grade Classroom] - Diane Barone and Todd Wright (2008) - previously published in The Reading Teacher.

An activity idea for Synthesis: