Online Reading Skills

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Here's an interesting article from Educational Leadership about teaching high school kids some reading skills for online reading that are different from reading books. The article suggests teaching four strategies:

  1. Search for information
  2. Navigate -- one uses different scanning skills to navigate Web sites
  3. Critically evaluate your search results to see which links look the most promising, and evaluate reliability of information
  4. Synthesize rather than copying

Some examples of activities and worksheets are included.

Marian Thacher
OTAN
mthacher@otan.us
November 16, 2005

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