This article was in the online resources; it is written by Michele Lesmeister, a GED instructor at Renton Technical College (in Washington).  I jotted down some points that resonated with me:

  • The focus of RA is building an active learning community around reading,in such a way that all contribute and gain insight 
  • Students become experts in the reading process
  • Students learn how to tackle difficult texts with a toolkit of skills gained in a collaborative manner
  • RA models team-building for the work place
  • RA develops cognitive, personal, knowledge-building, and social skills for learning in the future
  • RA supports emerging readers, advanced readers, and just-in-time discipline based readers

Students are:

  • Able to find answers (for which there was first a question!)
  • Able to explain how they know what the author's intent is
  • Locate evidence
  • Support interpretation through fact and inference

I came up with a possible acronym for the RA process:  STIR

  • Stop (your reading)
  • Think
  • Interact with the text
  • Relationship ....built between the reader and the text

Here's a link to the article: 

http://www.nelrc.org/persist/pdfs/Michele%20Lesmeister%27s%20Article%20in%20Techniques.pdf

Last modified: Saturday, April 19, 2014, 1:19 PM