Section outline

    • Outside Reading (P2) form - Karen Myers File
    • NHLP info and exercise - Karen Myers File
    • Personal Reading History File

      Victoria Webb

    • Metacognitive Log General--Victoria Webb File
    • Using Evidence Logs--Victoria Webb File

      I love to use evidence logs to help students back up their ideas. This helps students to recognize their (sometimes faulty) conclusions, and it makes them more careful readers because they know they will need to back up their interpretations with evidence during discussions. It also helps to rein in and discipline readers who think they "know" what the text is saying even though they may not have read it carefully. 

      For this particular assignment, I have students read David Sedaris' Us and Them by themselves at home as homework. The next day we begin a discussion about whether or not the narrator likes the Tomkey family's way of life or not. Students have differing opinions, so then I tell them to get in pairs and find evidence for thier interpretation in the text and to record it in their evidence logs. I use this assignment when I am introducing evidence logs before I shift to showing how they can be used for more academic articles. 

    • Using Evidence Logs (page 2)--Victoria Webb File