The reflection questions and slides on this page were presented in a breakout session during the Spring 2023 Opening Day event. The committee read an extensive list of scholarly articles to better understand and answer the following questions.
Initial Independent Reflection Questions
1. What type of texts do you assign in your course(s)?
2. Why are you assigning these readings?
Analysis of Text Types
Consider a type of text used in your course (scholarly articles, newspaper articles, essays, textbook chapters, etc.) and answer the following questions about this type of text.
1. What information do you want students to get from your assigned texts? (go beyond “the important” - what type of information? Also consider what students will be asked to do with that information)
2. Where in this specific text type can that information be typically found?
3. What can you provide for students to help guide their reading (consider the before, during, and after reading framework)?
Questions for Reflection
1. What is one change you will make within your course or to an assignment based on what you have learned from this discussion?
2. What is one idea shared during this workshop (by presenter or participant) that has had the biggest impact on your thinking about supporting student reading?
3. What additional questions has this workshop left you considering about supporting student reading?
