Actively Learn Supports
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Here's a link to tips for teaching novels that might be helpful for the summer reading.
Actively Learn - Tips for Increasing Engagement:
Engagement: Adding images and videos clips to the directions or Qs and margin notes; adding a poll question as a pre-reading question or during the reading; adding an inline discussion question in the margin to give Ss a way to discuss the topic.
Collaboration: Make sure that students can see their classmate's notes, responses, and engage in on-line discussion. Using the research feature and small groups are other ways for students to collaborate.
Support - Make sure to model all of the reading supports - define, translate, text-to-speech, and text settings. Remind students in the directions what they should do. Examples might be - define the following words.... Take a note and highlight the claim and then 3-4 notes with supporting evidence...Read the author's argument and then agree or disagree in the in-line discussion in paragraph 6.
Feedback - Give students regular feedback to affirm their ideas and hard work and to push them to go back into the text and add more textual details