Talk:Reflective reading/@comment-28518194-20160524060546

When I get students to reflect about a text, I have the students annotate the work first. They are looking for repeated works, the tone of the work, etc. Then I have the students summarize the text into their own words. The students, in the margins, are to ask question about the text, whether it is words that they do not understand or questions that get others to think about what the text is saying. Students can write how the text makes them feel overall and whether different sections make them feel different things. I do not use this technique too often since I am a substitute teacher, but I have seen that reflecting about the text does give students a deeper understanding of what it is saying.