Three Levels of Text
Purpose
To collaboratively construct
meaning, clarify, and expand our thinking about a text or document.
Individually
- Choose
one sentence that is particularly significant, challenging or true.
- Choose
a phrase that struck you as significant.
- Choose
a word that struck you as significant.
With
your group
- Each
person shares his/her sentence from the text and explains the reason it
was chosen; others listen; perhaps take notes; there is no discussion
- Repeat
with the phrase and the word. A volunteer might want to record phrases and
words.
Dialogue
and reflection
- Reread
the sentences, phrases and words as a newly created text
- Discuss
what you learned and what new insights emerged about the topic. What
patterns or surprises?
- Share
insights with the larger group.
Debrief
of the protocol
1. How
did this protocol work for you as a way to think more deeply about this
chapter?
