Reading grid
Definition
A reading grid or grid for reading is list of critera used to summarize the main ideas and supporting details covered in a text. Criteria depend on text genre and use context. E.g. a grid could be made to help pupils understand the structure and the contents of a fairy tale. Another could exist to help journalism students study/understand crime reports. Those reading grids should be adapted to the learner's cognitive level.
Grid for reading also can mean the way in which users scan a text or a webpage. E.g. observation one could make with eye-tracing software.
Variants
- Part of a reading strategy
Note taking grids, that will help students "digest" a text or a lecture
- Evaluation
Evaluation rubrics that will a learner's ability to read a text also exist. E.g Courts et al. (1993) ([1]) define:
- Ability to identify central point(s)
- Ability to identify X amount of supporting details arguments, etc.
- Ability to identify underlying assumptions
- Ability to make/explain judgement of article's
- sense, truth value, quality Ability to identify implications
- Ability to identify relationship of central points to personal experience
- Ability to recognize and comment on author's technique, organizing principle, or style
Examples
- Learning strategies
- Reading Strategies (Learning strategies database). This text explains "reading grids" besides other strategies like SQ3R, highlighting and summarizing, outlining, and margin notes.
- Home Reading Grid by Deanna Duray. (broken ?)
- Evaluation
- In french
- La grille de lecture (Education aux médias)