{"id":159,"date":"2007-11-27T17:07:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T17:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-11-27T17:07:28","modified_gmt":"2007-11-27T17:07:28","slug":"rescue-reading-the-boston-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"Rescue reading – The Boston Globe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Read this after I posted this morning: Rescue reading – The Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s the NEA report<\/a> that started all the discussion.<\/p>\n

Then, I remembered the street banner I saw when I was in Scranton recently about the Scranton Reads! <\/a>program.<\/p>\n

Mostly, I’m even more confused about the definition of words “reading” and “books” and “literacy”.\u00a0 Text, albeit digital and incorporated into multimedia, will still be a part of the way people get information.\u00a0 I’m assuming that the test scores that have leveled off come from print-based tests using traditional texts.\u00a0 I think there may be a little literature out there about how text and images combine to influence reading comprehension.\u00a0 Could we use webpages as a way to test reading ability?\u00a0 What would happen if you took the traditional text included on the tests, say an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and made it into a multimedia presentation with links, accompanying images, maybe even a video about Emerson?\u00a0 Would their interest go up in this famous American writer?\u00a0 And, more importantly, would their comprehension go up?\u00a0 Would they actually read the essay or would they spend their time clicking links and watching the video?\u00a0 And, if they learn something about Emerson from those links and videos, would it matter that they never read the essay?<\/p>\n

I suppose, in terms of being able to comprehend Emerson’s text, it would be important.\u00a0 But, is it the actual text or the ideas that come from it that are important?\u00a0 As a high school English teacher, I spent a lot of time translating Elizabethan English for my students when we read Shakespeare.\u00a0 It was really like working in a foreign language class, and we lost a lot of the story in the words.\u00a0 I found them beautiful; my students found them frustrating. But, they loved the Franco Zefferelli film version and I think they appreciated the story even if they didn’t always follow the dialog.\u00a0 After all, Shakespeare wrote for a print-illiterate audience, didn’t he?<\/p>\n

As always, lots to think about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read this after I posted this morning: Rescue reading – The Boston Globe Here’s the NEA report that started all the discussion. Then, I remembered the street banner I saw when I was in Scranton recently about the Scranton Reads! program. Mostly, I’m even more confused about the definition of words “reading” and “books” and … Continue reading Rescue reading – The Boston Globe<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,54,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-reading","category-teaching"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}