Grade 4 “active reading” goes global
Posted by: The Learning Hub in 21st Century Literacy, grade 4Last week Mr. Lamont’s Grade 4 class culminated their active reading workshop with an new 21st century twist.
Active Reading is a reading strategy used to help break down an understand different types of texts. It is made up of four components (Marking-Up the Text, Visualize, Predict and Question) and is taught in grade 4 to help students work with fiction and non-fiction.
This year during the workshop Mr Lamont’s students were asked to model the active reading process using the Smartboard. Each students was given a scanned page from their text and they were asked to go through each of the four active reading steps and show and capture their thinking on the board.
This work was then saved as images and imported into a program called Garageband. This pod-casting program allowed students to record their own voices while answering the question “How does active reading help you read? Students reflected on the active reading process while watching the images of their own work to go a little deeper into what makes this strategy work for them. There was some great thinking and deep questioning going on!
Finally these video pod-casts were posted on a site called Teacher Tube where they were shared with other Grade 4 students and teachers from around the world. The hope was that by sharing their knowledge perhaps others could learn and become better active readers as well. The response has been fantastic as already each of their student videos has been watched over 20 times!
Watch the learning happen! Like many of the projects involving technology in the Elementary School, the focus is always on the curriculum learning outcomes and the technology is used as an engaging and relevant tool that allows teaching and learning to happen in new and exciting ways.
Great job Mr. Lamont’s Class!
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