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Reading Workshop

Encouraging Critical Thinking in the Classroom

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The Cognitive

Process

cognitive

adjective\kg-n-tiv\: of, relating to, or involvingconscious mental activities (such as thinking,unerstaning, learning, an remem!ering"

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How do we learn?hat o stuents actuall'

remem!er from a lesson)

hich methos ensure learning

is long term)

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active learning

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Using dialouge as

a diadactic tool

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The Socratic

Method

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How to create

dialougeThe *ocratic +etho is mae of four ke' com#onents:

the tet

the uestion

the leaer the #artici#ants

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Socratic Method to

!" Reading

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The Te#t. tet shoul !e chosen %hich is closel' connecte to

the overall goals of the su!/ect, unit, an theclassroom&

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The $uestionThe starting uestion to encourage the ialogue

shoul !e %ell-#lanne, an resem!le an authenticthought-#rovoking inuir'&

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The %eaderThe net chief constituent in *ocratic instruction, is

t'#icall' the teacher, %ho not onl' guies theiscourse, !ut also takes an active #art in it&

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The ParticipantsThe most im#ortant element is the #artici#ants %hich

are #rimaril' the stuents !ut also inclue theteacher&

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A sa&ple Te#t

Medicine ! Ch '

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$uestion (ro& the

)ook

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*i+erent types

o( ,uestions

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Closed $uestions*e-nition

There are t%o e0nitions that are use to escri!e close uestions& .common e0nition is:

A closed question can be answered with either a singleword or a short phrase.

Thus 12o% ol are 'ou)1 an 1here o 'ou live)1 are close uestions& . morelimiting e0nition that is sometimes use is:

A closed question can be answered with either 'yes' or 'no'.

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.pen $uestions*e-nition

.n o#en uestion can !e e0ne thus:

An open question is likely to receive a longanswer.

.lthough an' uestion can receive a long ans%er, o#en uestionseli!eratel' seek longer ans%ers, an are the o##osite of closeuestions&

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Why and How

3#en uestions therefore often !egin %ith 4%h'5 an 4ho%5

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/uided *iscovery

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0 i i th

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0ringing the

white)oard alive2o% stuent ieas reinforce learning

0 i i th

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0ringing the

white)oard alive*tuent in#ut uring iscussion goes on the !oar

6ictures are taken of !oar7log is u#ate using genuine lesson material

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Mo)ile phones in

the classroo&

.re the' a goo thing)

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Mo)ile phones in

the classroo&8n further lessons material revie%s are one using

mo!ile #hones

*tuent uestions are ans%ere in class an ifrelevant immeiatel' #oste on the !log

.n' a!sent stuents have instant access to materialcovere

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$uestions

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