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HOW TO GROW INTO A SKILLED READER?�

Anita Peti-Stantić, University of Zagreb, Croatia

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LITERACY POLICY AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES

  • 1. NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PROMOTION OF READING
    • Collaborative action:
      • Ministry of Culture,
      • Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports
      • (the public)

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    • SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats)
      • pre-school, school, institutions (libraries), publishers, autors and translators, e-books
  • 2. WORKSHOPS (AND PROMOTIONS) FOR TEACHERS

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NATIONAL STRATEGY FOR PROMOTION OF READING

  • Let’s read, not to be left speechless!
  • Reading is important to rest our attitudes, sometimes resentful of the world, and find a different wavelength and connect with different worlds and people, and thus feelings.

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COST ACTION �EUROPEAN LITERACY NETWORK

  • WG 2: DEVELOPMENT OF A READER

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THE BIG QUESTION: HOW TO TEAM UP FOR SUCCESS IN READING LITERACY?

  • TARGET TEACHERS
    • WHY?
    • because they work with young people
    • BUT also...
    • because TEACHERS ARE INTELLECTUALS
  • HOW?
    • by addressing their needs and interests
  • OBJECTIVE: To build trust!

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WE BUILD A STORY FOR THEM AND WITH THEM

  • GROWING LIBRARY
  • GROWING TRUST

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CONCENTRIC CIRCLES

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STRUCTURED STEPS IN ACQUIRING FULL LITERACY

  • GOAL: AUTOMATIZATION ON ALL LEVELS
  • correlations
    • semantic and syntactic connections (synonyms, antonyms, specific word-formation rules, semantically based syntactic constraints etc.)
    • build awareness and perfection of grammatical frames

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OUR BRAIN IS NOT INTENDED FOR READING

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OUR BRAIN IS CAPABLE OF READING

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LITERATURE �(FOR DEEP READING)

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COMBINATORIAL CAPABILITIES OF A SKILLED READER

  • through systematic instruction of the vocabulary and text structures
  • WHY?
    • vocabulary is not a list of words with meanings, BUT A STRUCTURED SET OF INTERCONNECTED CONCEPTS
      • concept of a network

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WORKSHOPS FOR TEACHERS

  • In 2018. we organized two workshops with 40 elementary teachers (Croatian, Math, History, Natural Sciences, Geography)
  • Collaboration with the national Agency for Teacher’s Education
  • AIMS:
    • to present problems and data to ALL teachers, not only mother tongue teachers
    • to introduce the relevance of systematic vocabulary instruction
    • to introduce 5 text structures relevant primarily for expository texts
    • to propose methodological training and intervention

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FOLLOWED BY WORKSHOPS FOR ADVISORS IN AGENCY FOR TEACHER’S EDUCATION

  • WHY?
    • because they can reach all children
    • because they can (by changning attitude and interest) substantially impact young people
    • because they can show why being a better reader matters
  • CHALLENGES
    • ethical approval
    • organization and execution
    • trust and confidence – both teachers and students

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WE TEAMED UP WITH TEACHERS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES

  • TEACHING TEXT STRUCTURES
    • targetetd intervention
  • ACQUISITION OF INTELLECTUAL VOCABULARY
    • intellectual vocabulary (1500 words from textbooks)
    • 30 schools, 900 students for each questionnaire (concreteness and imageability)
    • testing concreteness/abstractness, imageability, age of acquistion and frequency

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VOACBULARY INTERVENTION OFFERED

  • 8 types of excercises, different goals and different complexity of the cognitive task
  • basic types
    • 1. defiinig the meanings by building sematic connections, synonyms and antonyms and connecting sentences
    • 2. inferring about the meaning by answering questions
    • 3. composing sentences and the text by using offered words
    • 4. modifying sentences by using offered words (word for word and multi-word constructions )

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INTELLECTUAL VOCABULARY MATTERS FOR READING COMPREHENSION

  • WHY?
  • because expert reader is ahead with her lexical knowledge in order to be able to read fluently
  • reading comprehension problems are evident in lower than average results on PISA tests

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DEVELOPMENT OF A READER/WRITER

  • COMBINATORIAL CAPABILITIES OF A SKILLED READER
  • to automatize certain processes and liberate the mind for more complex ones (build awareness of polisemy and wordwebs)
  • to enhance gradual rise in depth and extent of reading/writing skills (an opposite to “An inch deep and a mile wide”)
  • democratization of reading and writing, irrespective of wealth and/or race, language etc.
  • to develop a critical reader/writer for citical citizenship in a changing world

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BOOK PROMOTIONS FOR TEACHERS

  • WHY?
    • Because they are intellectuals usually reading more than others!
  • HOW WE CHOOSE WHAT WE PRESENT?
    • In coordination with their interest – popular science and literature
  • HOW THEY REACT?
    • With lots of questions and sharing their experiences!

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MOST IMPORTANT: COLLABORATION

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THANK YOU!

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