Answer to Question #212356 in English for Promise

Question

provide an example of a reading activity where you apply transactionalism in the classroom to:

2.3.1 enforce the readers authority

2.32 encourage learners to ask questions

Answer 1

2.3.1 Teachers who teach reading are doing more than teaching decoding skills. They must also teach comprehension of the text. The transactional theory of reading was developed by Louise Michelle Rosenblatt. According to Rosenblatt, the reader and the text transact with one another, each affecting the other. The meaning of the text changes depending on the reader's background knowledge and personal reflections. The transactional theory can be used in reading instruction to deepen comprehension of a text by asking readers to make connections, make predictions and visualize meaning. Involve emergent readers with the text by having students make predictions about the text. Students can make predictions based on the title of the text, any pictures associated with the text or based on what they have read so far. Ask students why they have made the predictions they did, and discuss several different ideas with the whole class.

2.3.2 Remind students to use comprehension strategies as they read and to monitor their understanding.

• Ask questions that keep students on track and focus their attention on main ideas and important points in the text.
• Focus attention on parts in a text that require students to make inferences.
• Call on students to summarize key sections or events.
• Encourage students to return to any predictions they have made before reading to see if they are confirmed by the text.

Students, with some help from the teacher, may:

• Determine and summarize important ideas and supportive details.
• Make connections between and among important ideas in the text.
• Integrate new ideas with existing background knowledge.
• Ask themselves questions about the text.
• Sequence events and ideas in the text.
• Offer interpretations of and responses to the text.
• Check understanding by paraphrasing or restating important and/or difficult sentences and paragraphs.
• Visualize characters, settings, or events in a text.