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Reading strategies such as underlining and taking notes
in the margin help students process texts for high-stakes reading tests.
However, students are frequently issued reading textbooks that they are not
allowed to write in, vastly limiting the opportunities to practice active
reading strategies. A document camera, visualiser or digital presenter can make
active reading possible for any text!
BEFORE
1. Choose the text to analyze in class.
DURING
2. Project the text selected for active reading analysis
using the Document camera, visualiser or digital presenter.
3. Direct students to decide, either cooperatively in
small groups or individually, what is the main idea of the chosen selection.
4. On their own paper, students should write which key
words and phrases they would underline, and what notes they would take in the
margin.
5. Choose students to write directly over the projected
image which text they have marked and what notes they would write in the margin.
6. Discuss accuracy as a class.
AFTER
7. Using a Document camera, visualiser or digital
presenter, project a text selection that students have not seen before. As bell
work, review, or assessment, have students write on their own paper which key
words and phrases they would underline, and what notes they would take in the
margin.
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