Rationale for R,L, W, S, V --> Life

Graphic About Why Reading (20min/night): 

•  http://www.usd343.net/vnews/display.v/ART/5060992ac7eb2

Notes from my thinking:

Every book teaches us about human behavior - about other people - and truly, about ourselves.  every story is our story given the same set of circumstances and the same choices.  How would I react, read on.  How might I react, read on.  How could I react, read on.  Read to understand how others might make this choice, decision and therefore why you might as well. ~ ???

We don't learn to read to be able to read.   We learn to read in order to better understand ourselves and the world.  What makes us different than "animals"- who rely on instinct and modeling?  Human beings are able to change, learn, and reflect.  How? By reading, listening, viewing, speaking, and writing.

Our goals:  Change the rationale for reading, listening, writing, speaking and viewing from doing the act to learning how to learn ... about ourselves and the world.

• Create more engagement
• Create more active thinkers
• Makes curric more rigorous and relevant (ongoing, seek to create)

Reading pulls people out of poverty because it teaches thinking skills that help readers to be more adept in the world, with people, and reflecting on their lives.

C:  To math... both help us to make sense of the world.  (TV Show Numb3rs)

Input:

• Read to learn:
• Listen to learn:
• View to learn:
• Strategies/skills we use while reading, can be generalized to listening, viewing and LIFE!
• Skills:
• Character - helps us understand growth, development, change of ourselves and others; flat vs round - who am I? why?; motive - helps us to understand our own and others
• Plot - nothing happens in isolation, cause and effect, sequence
• Problem - Climax - Solution/Resolution 
• Setting - 
• place matters (we understand things differently based on where we are!  There is a real difference between being there and being here!); 
• time matters (we respond differently to the same events as time passes - in the moment (coward) vs farther from the moment, looking back (courage, justice)
• mood - we are all co-creators of mood
• Theme - helps us to understand the world AND feel as though our problems are more universal
• Allusion - recognize this more often
• Strategies - use to read AND to problem-solve:
• Prediction - start problems, predict life...
• Question - what questions do we ask?  Do we ask qeustions? Critical thinkers...
• Connections - what connections to we make? metaphorical thinkers...
• Inferences
• Determines Importance - what is 
• Text Structures - thinking Structures:
• Sequence - how can I break this down into steps? where to start?
• Cause and Effect - what caused this?  What else?  What might be an effect of this?
• Compare/Contrast - how is this/they the same? how different?  How am I/this situation the same? How am I/this situation different?
• Description - do you see all sides of this issue?  
• Problem-Solution - identify the problem and seek a solution (using other thinking structures)
• Question - Answer - what is the question we should be asking?
• Reflection Frame:
• I learned about ______ by reading _______.  It helps me to better understand ______ in this way _________ because __________________.  (Justify, connect to text, generalize to life)

Output:

• Write to learn:
• Speak to learn:
• Take time to organize and clarify thoughts.
• Consider how to use the writing process with speaking!
• Plan (PTT)
• Draft (PTT)
• Share....then
• Revise /Edit
• Publish (share again)