What is a HABIT OF MIND?
Get ready- Reading takes concentration, set yourself up in a quiet, distraction free space with your resources close by. Determine your purpose for reading. Figure out what you already know.
Be persistent - Don’t give up when it gets hard. Be patient with yourself, but try again. Reading in (and learning) another language can be hard. Practice, practice, practice.
Find the words you need - Locate the resources that will help you understand the key words you need to comprehend the text.
Check your understanding - Stop frequently. Check what you understand by telling yourself what you just read. Imagine that you are there. Figure out where you get stuck and use strategies to get through the hard parts.
Use your bicultural vision - Open yourself to different cultural perspectives, cultivate your ability to understand different points of view and cultures and compare them with your own.
Make connections and comparisons- Ask questions, express your opinions, connect to your life. Compare, contrast, categorize. Analyze, synthesize, apply.
Persistence
Resourcefulness
Imaginativeness
Bicultural Vision
Courage
Questions that cultivate World Language Habits of Mind for effective reading
(1) Why am I reading this text? (purpose) What is the context in which I read this text? (pre-reading activities)
cute phrase: Contexto
(2) What is the literal meaning of the text? What do I do when this is hard to figure out? (vocabulary, syntax, persistence and flexibility)
Cute phrase: Get it! (literal meaning/comprehension and self-awareness), Persistence, Take a Risk
(3) What is the cultural lens through which I read this text? What is the cultural lens through which the author/characters are looking at the world? How is this culture different/similar to from my own? (identify cultural perspectives, compare/contrast)
cute phrase: “Use your bicultural vision”
(4) How can I interact with the text? (form opinions; critical analysis, make connections on a personal level, with the author’s intent, with other texts; developing a thesis and using evidence; real-world applications, etc.)
cute phrase: Connections, “Think for yourself,” “Take a risk”
Habits of Mind in Spanish
- Prepárate (get ready)
- Sé Persistente (be persistent)
-Encuentra las palabras necesarias (find the words you need)
- Asegura tu comprensión (check your comprehension)
- Usa tu visión bicultural (use your bicultural vision)
- Haz conexiones y comparaciones (make connections and comparisons)
- It is your backpack of tools (why/what you are reading for) that you use to approach reading in Spanish.
- HABITS OF MIND: bundles of purposes (why/what you are reading for)
- Habits of Mind are what you want students to have
Get ready- Reading takes concentration, set yourself up in a quiet, distraction free space with your resources close by. Determine your purpose for reading. Figure out what you already know.
Be persistent - Don’t give up when it gets hard. Be patient with yourself, but try again. Reading in (and learning) another language can be hard. Practice, practice, practice.
Find the words you need - Locate the resources that will help you understand the key words you need to comprehend the text.
Check your understanding - Stop frequently. Check what you understand by telling yourself what you just read. Imagine that you are there. Figure out where you get stuck and use strategies to get through the hard parts.
Use your bicultural vision - Open yourself to different cultural perspectives, cultivate your ability to understand different points of view and cultures and compare them with your own.
Make connections and comparisons- Ask questions, express your opinions, connect to your life. Compare, contrast, categorize. Analyze, synthesize, apply.
Persistence
Resourcefulness
Imaginativeness
Bicultural Vision
Courage
Questions that cultivate World Language Habits of Mind for effective reading
(1) Why am I reading this text? (purpose) What is the context in which I read this text? (pre-reading activities)
cute phrase: Contexto
(2) What is the literal meaning of the text? What do I do when this is hard to figure out? (vocabulary, syntax, persistence and flexibility)
Cute phrase: Get it! (literal meaning/comprehension and self-awareness), Persistence, Take a Risk
(3) What is the cultural lens through which I read this text? What is the cultural lens through which the author/characters are looking at the world? How is this culture different/similar to from my own? (identify cultural perspectives, compare/contrast)
cute phrase: “Use your bicultural vision”
(4) How can I interact with the text? (form opinions; critical analysis, make connections on a personal level, with the author’s intent, with other texts; developing a thesis and using evidence; real-world applications, etc.)
cute phrase: Connections, “Think for yourself,” “Take a risk”
Habits of Mind in Spanish
- Prepárate (get ready)
- Sé Persistente (be persistent)
-Encuentra las palabras necesarias (find the words you need)
- Asegura tu comprensión (check your comprehension)
- Usa tu visión bicultural (use your bicultural vision)
- Haz conexiones y comparaciones (make connections and comparisons)