Building Deep Reading Skills

In a classroom setting, how can a teacher help students enhance their deep reading skills?

• Encouraging quick scrolling and swiping through e-books during class

• Focusing on the number of digital pages students can read in a minute

• Slowing down and fostering reflection and analysis of the text being read

• Promoting the use of pencils and highlighters on digital texts for better engagement

During a study session, how does annotating the textbook help students?

• Quickly skim through the chapters

• Encourage a deeper understanding by slowing down

• Misjudge their grasp of the subject matter

• Utilize their study tools like pencils and highlighters more efficiently

While reading an e-book on her tablet, Sarah notices she's not retaining information as well as she does with printed books. What is the tendency that she needs to counteract, as mentioned in the text?

• The tendency to slow down too much

• The tendency to overestimate how well they understood something

• The tendency to focus on the medium rather than the text

• The tendency to avoid annotating

During a book club meeting, members discussed the influence of digital media on reading habits. Which book by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst was highlighted for its insights?

• Slowing Down in a Digital World

• The Art of Digital Reading

• Notice and Note

• The Deep Reading Guide

What was the surprising finding of Julie Coiro's study on seventh graders' reading comprehension?

• Students had the same reading comprehension online and offline.

• Students' reading comprehension varied with the two different mediums.

• All students preferred reading in print over reading on a screen.

• Reading comprehension was not affected by the medium.

According to Maryanne Wolf, what may be the evidence that different adolescents are already starting to develop different 'reading circuits' in their brains?

• Adolescents are reading more online than in print.

• Adolescents have a uniform reading comprehension pattern.

• Adolescents are favoring neural patterns that comprehend best on paper, and vice versa.

• Adolescents are not interested in reading anymore.

Imagine a classroom scenario where students are given the choice to read the assigned literature either on paper or on a digital screen. What is the benefit of being metacognitive about what's working well for them in their chosen format?

• It helps students to read faster.

• It allows students to make informed decisions about how to read.

• It encourages students to read only digital formats.

• It decreases the importance of online reading options.

Why is aligning expectations across content areas like English, science, and history important in a school setting?

• Because it simplifies the curriculum.

• Because it helps students to focus only on English.

• Because literacy skills are woven into multiple subjects and can help in transferring annotating skills to new contexts, such as understanding scientific papers or historical documents.

• Because it allows students to use different tools in each subject.

What did the English teachers in the district discover about the online highlighting and annotation tools?

• They were inadequate for teaching purposes.

• They were only useful for English classes.

• They were surprised to see that the tools mirrored those used in the new science curriculum.

• They found the tools to be outdated.

How can teaching annotation techniques in a history class benefit students?

• It increases the cognitive load on students.

• It restricts students to English literacy only.

• It can reduce cognitive load and help transfer skills to new contexts.

• It makes students less interested in learning.