Before,+During,+and+After+Reading

o I think it would very useful, as the students can predict what the text is about, just by reading the larger font words. It
 * ===3.3 Before Reading Activity-Wordle ===
 * How useful would this Wordle be as a before reading strategy for your students?

also gives the students an idea about the important parts to focus on in the text they are about to read.

o This would be great for the visual and auditory learners. The visual learners would benefit by seeing the words and the auditory learners would benefit by saying the larger font words.
 * What type of learners would benefit from using a Wordle?

===After wordle gulf article: ===

My observations and predictions:

Just by looking at the Worlde, I can predict that the article is going to be about a spill that happened in September, there was victims, something about a fund, happened in the gulf, the government is involved, long-term effects, effects a lot of people, and something was killed. Activating prior knowledge, I would say it is about the oil spill from BP that happened in the gulf that killed and/or effected a lot of animals and land. Thousand of people were effected by the spill and it cost a lot of money for the cleanup. Because it happened a “short” time ago, I was able to recall facts about it (still in short term memory area of the brain). I am not sure I would be able to recall all the facts about the spill 10-20 years from now.

3.4 During Reading Activity - Annotating a Text Resource: My Summary:
This article was about the compariso

n of compensating victims from the 9/11 disaster and the BP Spill and Mr. Fienbergs view on both compensation packages. The 9/11 disaster fund emphasized putting a value on a human life, were as the BP Spill is putting a value on loss of income that could possible go on for years to come. There are some similarities to the two funds, as they are both catastrophic events, and putting a value on anything is very hard to do. In both cases the goal was/is to persuade the victims to take a cash settlement rather than go to litigation. A difference between both settlements, is the 9/11 monetary settlements came from the taxpayers and government, and the oil spill monetary settlements will be funded by BP. My predictions of the article from reading the wordle were not totally accurate. In reading the wordle, I new the article was going to be about the gulf oil spill, but I did not get the impression the article was about compensating the victims of the oil spill and the comparison of the monetary settlement packages/process of the oil spill and the 9/11 attacks. Now that I read the article, looking at the wordle, I see the words that connect to the article. I guess my prior knowledge served as a road block, as I immediately focused more on the oil spill story as I remembered it, not the monetary/settlement process. Marking up the text and adding comments defiantly have value as a strategy to use in the classroom. The comments I made, made it easier to compose the summary. Highlighting text does not address my learning style, but typing the comments does, as it helps me put the information in my words, which in turn helps me remember the information. In my opinion, marking up the text would be a helpful tool to certain learners, not all.

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