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This board was constructed using Educational Leadership
Cris Tovani "The Power of Purposeful Reading"

Tovani, Cris. The Power of Purposeful Reading. Educational Leadership. (0ctober 2005). Volume 63. Number 2. Reading Comprehension.  Pages 48-51.

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Preparing Students to Identify/Create Own Reading Purposes

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Preparing Students to Identify/Create Own Reading Purposes

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Sometimes students are not given explicit purpose for reading text by their teachers, but you can teach students to make up their own purposes. Such as....
-Reading for personal learning/achievement/selfish reason, what they get out of it
-Reread with new purpose, possibilities: to summarize, to create question for teacher, visualize, etc.
-Read for connection

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-Be clear with expectations, what is wanted of the students
-Support and encourage students to ask question
-identify reading strategies and how to use them with the purpose in mind
-Be realistic about goals for student learning

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Share with students the purpose for reading a text
Suggestions:
-ask questions while reading
-look for important piece of information
-form an opinion about the text

When given these purposes a student has a basis for identifying important information from that which is trivial
-it limits number of reading task to focus on
Identify reading comprehension strategies and how they fit with the purpose of the text reading

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-over-reliance on bolded print text
What happens when there is too much of it, and you are copying pretty much everything?

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- insufficient background information to understand what is relevant
- thinking everything is important
- not knowing how content will be used