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Video-based Reading Strategies and Techniques: Motivation and Background Knowledge

Self-Assessment - Making Connections

  1. What opportunities are students given to make connections to the text? Are the connections: text to self, text to text, or text to world?
  2. Activities that allow students to make connections can be motivational.
    • How can these activities also help to develop comprehension skills?
    • Are there critical thinking questions that can be incorporated in the activity? (Think about Bloom's Taxonomy.)