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What Do Effective Readers, Writers, Listeners, Speakers, and Viewers Do?

(Examples)

What Do Effective, Physically Fit Individuals, Athletes, and Dancers Do?

(Examples)

Connect: past learning and life experiences to the new reading, , listening, and/or viewing

Connect: success and challenges of past contests/performances/workouts to future contests/performances/workouts—individually and/or as a team/ensemble.

P   Predict:

• What will happen next in the text

• What conclusions the author will draw

• Whether the content has value to your thinking

Pr Predict: what would happen if:

• You wrote a letter to the principal about your concern regarding the school lunch program

• A woman wins the presidency

Predict: the cost/benefits of…

• Of jump roping for 20 minutes each PE class on your level of muscular endurance
• Strength training during the off-season
• Having the team choose the team captains rather than the coaches making the choices
• Changing the starting line-up
• Teaching a peer how to swim
• Choreographing a solo v. group ensemble given time constraints, etc.
• Playing for a Division I college/university and the impact of that game schedule on your career choice
• The effectiveness of swimming laps 4 days/week on cardiovascular syst

Visualize and explain:

• The spectators’ reactions and interactions when the bomb exploded

• The scene in which the protagonist crossed the line of acceptable behavior

Visualize and write:

• The world in twenty-five years if Congress passes a Global Warming Bill

• From the point of view of an African-American if an African-American wins the president

Visualize and explain:

• What your body will look like after 6 weeks on the school’s fitness and nutrition program
• What the dance will look like with lighting and costumes
• What the (basketball) play will look like if we add a hand-off to our center instead of the forward
• What your swing should look like when you rotate your hips before you begin your arm movement
• Your most mechanically efficient flip turn at the last swim meet
• What you will see, hear and feel when we win the next game!

S.........................................Summarize

…In your own words, explain/write:

• What has taken place in the chapter or the story to support the plot (fiction) or to support the thesis (expository)

• The process that you used in writing your editorial; in solving the math problem or science problem

• How the strategy that each General used at the Battle of Gettysburg contributed to success or failure

..............................Summarize

 ...In your own words, explain/write:

• The effectiveness of the President’s Physical Fitness program on your overall health

• Describe the effort that your team demonstrated in reaching team goals

• Explain your rationale for why the other dancers used ______ in their choreography

• Justify the winning swimmer’s reasons for his training methods, etc

• Your mental attitude this season as opposed to last season, and the impact that your mental attitude had on your performance each year

• The effect that weight training had on your performance this past season

• Your goals for next season

Pose questions…

• About the characters, conflict, resolution of the plot, future, etc.

• What you would ask a prospective teacher who has applied to teach your science class

• Whether the text is suitable and effective for the audience and purpose

• That you would ask President Bush about his reasons for going to war in Iraq

Pose questions…

• To your doctor about your current level of physical fitness and his/her recommendations for maintaining or improving your fitness level

• To the fencer to help her analyze why she lost her match

• To your coach as to why s/he made the decision to take out the starting quarterback

• That demonstrate your understanding of the nutritional program on which the trainer put the team

Evaluate…

• The manner in which the characters dealt with conflict

• The authenticity of how the protagonist related to the antagonist

• The criteria that you have developed for assessing your lab partner’s project

• Your Letter to the Editor to determine if you have met the criteria for publication in the local newspaper

• An author’s choice of information to prove their position or persuasion

• An author’s success in proving their position or persuading their audience

Evaluate…

• The consistency of my efforts to jog 3x/week and the effects on my overall fitness level

• The effectiveness of my workouts by comparing my skin-fold test in September to my skin-fold test in June.

• Our win/loss record and justify your explanation using game stats

• The dance program at our school based on these stated criteria…

• Your performance this season and compare it to last season

• The manner in which you mentored the JV and Modified team player you were assigned to this past year, and the effects that had on their athletic and school performance

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