SLIDE 1 Digital Reading Workshop: Using Digital Bins to Teach Text Evidence, Mood, Multiple Perspectives, Symbolism, and Theme
Sonja Cherry-Paul & Dana Johansen
@LitLearnAct
SLIDE 2 What is the Digital Reading Workshop?
- Reader’s Notebook/ Getting Organized
- Digital Texts & Text Sets
- Minilessons
- Annotating & Jotting
- Tweeting/ Skyping with Authors
- Blogging About Reading & Book Clubs
- Book Projects
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Google Doc Reader’s Notebooks
SLIDE 4 Digital Bins
They are text sets that include:
- Websites
- YouTube.com videos
- photographs
- music
- primary source documents
- advertisements, etc.
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Sample Digital Bin: WWII
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Mood
“Mood is the feeling the text evokes during the reading and after; it’s what lingers after you’ve read.”
SLIDE 7 Teaching Mood
Mood “the heart” Atmosphere “the eyes”
What emotions do you feel? What does the world look like in the text and today? Notice: Notice: setting mood time of day social conditions environment economic conditions weather political conditions Understanding mood means having a true Understanding atmosphere means having a true understanding of the emotional setting understanding of what was going on in the world
- f the text, what’s going on in the world now, and how
the two align or clash.
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Digital Bins in the Classroom
What digital texts would you put into a Mood Digital Bin? When and how would you ask students to access these texts?
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Multiple Perspectives
“Unlock the door to an awareness of the multiple perspectives of characters and people who are influenced by the world in which they live.”
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Teaching Multiple Perspectives
SLIDE 14 Teaching Multiple Perspectives
“Perspective stems from the way in which someone views the
- world. This view is steeped in a person’s life experiences.”
1) What are the ways in which you define yourself? 2) Why does identity matter? When did you realize you had
3) Turn and talk about critical moments in which you’ve realized something about your identities.
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Sample Bins
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Symbolism
“Just like superheroes with secret identities, symbols lie in wait, seemingly unimportant, full of mystery and deeper meaning.”
SLIDE 19 Teaching Symbolism
1) Identify potential symbols in the text. What repeats? What is emphasized? Categories: Animals Special Objects Weather 2) Brainstorm the characteristics of that symbol. 3) What might it symbolize?
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Student Work
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Using Digital Bins in the Classroom
Songs that are symbolic Video clips Performance poetry
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Theme
“Theme is a thread that runs throughout a text and evokes an emotional response within the reader.”
SLIDE 24 Teaching Theme
1) Pay attention to details: characters
colors setting 2) Note patterns such as repeated: images phrases emotions 3) Name the threads that tie this all together.
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Theme Statements
SLIDE 27 Using Digital Bins: Advanced Readers
Create text sets around a common theme:
- Growing Up
- Change
- Family
- Friendship
- Equality
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Contact Information
Sonja Cherry-Paul Cherryps@hohschools.org src2124@tc.columbia.edu Dana Johansen djohansen@greenwichacademy.org dej107@tc.columbia.edu @LitLearnAct www.LitLearnAct.wordpress.com
