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Title of Program
Read On!
Publisher or Producer
Humanities Software
Version and/or Date
1990
Setting (in classroom, small groups, etc.)
Middle and secondary level students
Potential Users
In classroom in small groups, individually in lab
Computer
Hardware: Macintosh/PC
Checklist
(characteristics present indicated by x)
Overall design of program is good
x Reading selections are long (several paragraphs).
Reading selections are complete works rather than excerpts.
x Content of reading selections is appropriate for college
students.
x Tasks involve students in constructing ideas, rather than in
answering objective questions.
Reading Strategies
(items present marked by x)
x Previewing
x Accessing prior knowledge
x Establishing a purpose for reading
x Determining text structure and organization
Asking questions
x Defining terms as used in context
x Monitoring comprehension
Using fix-up strategies when comprehension breaks down
Paraphrasing and summarizing author's ideas
x Relating author's background to reading selection
x Determining author's purpose and attitude
x Relating ideas in reading selection to other ideas
Evaluating the validity of the author's claims
x Collaborating with other ideas
Comments
Excellent reading colletion re: environmentalism. Although
prompts calling for response are inserted periodically into the
text to promote strategy use, the presence of the prompts makes
it difficult to get a sense of the whole text. The activities
in this program do not require a Computer
; this program
is an example of using the Computer
as an ³electronic page
turner.²
Evaluator
Sally Rings
Date of Evaluation
10/93
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