Tovani Chapter 5 – “Why Am I Reading This?"
1) Pretend you are asking your students the following questions:
- Have you ever been assigned a reading, and before you even started, you were asking yourself “Why am I reading this?” or “Why do we have to read this?”
- Have you ever started reading something and wondered “Why am I reading this?” or “What does THIS have to do with any part of my real life?”
What do you think their answers would be?
2) When you assign your students a reading, do you have difficulty deciding what the instructional focus should be? In other words, what is their purpose for the reading?
3) When you begin a reading for yourself, do you know your purpose? Do you have an unconscious, unstated purpose?
4) What do you think happens when your students don’t have a purpose for their reading?
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