High School Reading - Critical Thinking for Critical Reading

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How do we build analytical readers for post-secondary learning or job instruction?”

“How do we apply critical thinking strategies to enable higher reading among all secondary students?”

“How do we identify and correct those cognitive deficiencies that inhibit students from reading critically?”

“How do we incorporate writing to enable students to explore what they have read?

 

iRi’s High School Reading professional learning programs are best suited for teachers across content areas where critical reading is required. Teachers will learn to integrate vocabulary and comprehension strategies into daily lessons to enable students to analyze and discuss key concepts in challenging courses.

Critical Thinking for Critical Reading

  • Mediate those cognitive functions which enable reading comprehension of fiction and non-fiction: problem recognition, relevant information selection, spontaneous comparative behavior, distinguishing spatial and temporal relations, and conservation of constancies
  • Help students make connections among facts, concepts, people and events
  • Use graphic organizers to sharpen student perception of relationships (e.g., concept maps, right angle, comparison alley, fishbone charts, etc.)
  • Cultivate students’ inquiry skills to ask significant questions re: core curricular concepts
  • Develop high power lessons that integrate best practices for improving comprehension of difficult text
  • Evaluate students’ increased reading comprehension