AVReading Newsletter October: Notice and Name
In Kylene Beers and Robert Probst’s 2013 book on strategies for close reading entitled Notice and Note, they suggest that our current method of teaching students to read is flawed. They claim that the problem is we have made reading too much about comprehension, at the expense of many things that make texts more interesting and powerful. We focus far too often on the “what” of the text, not the “why” and “how.” They offer the process of noticing and noting. For this month’s newsletter, I would like to discuss the strategy as one we can apply both to reading and to broader issues of justice. To start with, “notice and note” is a framework where we teach students to interact more deeply with their texts. Beers and Probst unfortunately limit their process largely to texts of fiction. But it really does not take any imagination to apply these strategies to...