Book+Recommendations

Below is an example of the reading guide and final activities you will create for your reader. When you design your guide, please keep in mind that for most of the students, this is an extra credit assignment. While they should be required to actively engage the text to answer the questions or complete the activity, the assignment should not require too much time or too many outside resources.



There are myriad reading strategies and theories that we can use to guide our readers to a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the works they explore. Below is a link to a very clear description of the Schema theory (posted by the Florida Department of Education). This is the reading comprehension theory I used to create the sample guide above. http://forpd.ucf.edu/strategies/stratText.html
 * Schema Theory**

"The Acid Test for Literature Teaching" http://www.boyntoncook.com/shared/onlineresources/E00768/chapter5.pdf
 * Transactional Theory**
 * Making Meaning with Texts: Selected Essays by Loise Rosenblatt**