CSR - Collaborative Strategic Reading

I am NOT the clunk expert. What should I do if I find a clunk?

• List other clunks

• Use a dictionary or translator

• Tell the clunk expert and ask what is the next step

• Tell the leader my clunks

I am the clunk expert. What should I do if I find a clunk?

• Follow the steps on the cue card

• Tell people my clunk and follow the steps on the clunk expert card #1

• Ask the leader what to do

• Use a dictionary or translator

What should the clunk expert do if clunk expert card #1 doesn't work to find the meaning of a clunk?

• Ask the teacher

• Use the clunk expert cue card

• Use the clunk expert card #2

• Use the clunk expert card #3

In CSR, what are clunks?

• Words I know the meaning of

• Words so common everybody knows what they mean

• The meaning of words

• Words I don't know the meaning of

I am the leader. What should I do at the start of the CSR activity?

• Sleep

• Check my computer

• Check my notebook

• Read the first phrase in the leader card #1

If my card has a phrase like this:

"Does anybody know the meaning of the clunk?"

I should:

• Read it with a low voice just for myself

• Read it with a loud voice for all the group to hear

• Read it with the group (everybody together)

• Not read it

I am the leader. When everybody finished finding the meaning of the clunks, what card and what instruction should I read to the group?

• Leader cue card #2 - Instruction #4

• Leader cue card #1 - Instruction #2

• Leader cue card #4 - Instruction #2

• Leader cue card #3 - Instruction #1

I am the encourager. What should I do at the start of the activity?

• Just tell they did a good job for nothing

• Don't say anything

• After brainstorming, tell somebody he/she did a good job saying what he/she already know

• Tell somebody they did a good job getting the gist

What is a gist?

• The details in a text

• The words I don't know the meaning of

• The topic of the text

• The main idea of a text

Which of these is a responsibility of the leader?

• Pay attention to people to check if they're doing what they're supposed to do

• Sleep

• Find the meaning of the clunks people found

• Ask people what their clunks are