Coach

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="21d005a0dvldtc.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000066" FACE="Arial" >PT3 Readers are Leaders</FONT><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FF6600" FACE="Arial" > </FONT> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="PT3 Readers are Leaders"><U> Home </U></A>  |  <A HREF="home38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Training Room"><U>Brain Team</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id77.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Textbook Strategy Bookmark "><U>Textbook Strategy</U></A>   |  <A HREF="id78.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography Strategy Bookmark 1"><U>Biography Stategy Bookmakrk I </U></A> | <A HREF="id79.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Biography Strategy Bookmark 2"><U>Biography Strategy Bookmark II</U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#FFCC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <IMG SRC="1c9c28c0.gif" border=0 width="194" height="140" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFCC00" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Coach</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Getting to Know Your Brain Coach</B></div> <div> Your brain coach (or metacognition) is the part of your mind that sets goals and keeps the rest of your brain working together to meet the goals.   While you read, it watches the rest of your mind and decides when you need to call time out.</div> <div> It makes sure the eyes are comfortable and adjusts light or seat if necessary.</div> <div> It watches the wordmaster and decides when you can skip words or when you need to look them up.</div> <div> It watches the meaning maker and goes back to review when you get confused.</div> <div> It guides the memory to connect ideas from the memory with new ideas from the book and it helps the memory choose what to remember.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Responsibilities of the Brain Coach</B></div> <div> Your brain coach has jobs to do before you begin reading, while you are reading, and after you finish reading.</div> <bR> <div> <B>I.  Before you read</B></div> <div> Before you begin reading, your brain coach needs to decide on goals for reading and choose a strategy to meet the goal.</div> <div> If you are reading for school, you should always have two goals.  One goal should be to learn what you need to pass the course.  Your brain coach needs as clear a picture as possible of the way you will use this information in class.  Will you be discussing the story?   Will you have a test over the names?  Will you have to write a paper analyzing it?  The clearer the goal, the better your mental coach can plan a strategy.</div> <div> The second goal needs to be a way that you will use what you learn from this book outside of class--in future school or in your life outside school. This goal is a way that you will use this information to meet your long-term, personal goals.  This might include things you are learning from this text that will help you in college or in your career--or new attitudes or ideas or skills you may use in other classes or in your life outside school.  </div> <div> For example, when you read a novel, you might read for enjoyment, but you might also be interested in seeing how people in another part of the country live or seeing how someone else solved a problem that you might also face someday, or understanding how people of another culture think and feel.</div> <div> Your long-term goal is very important for remembering what you read. If your mental coach thinks that you are only reading this information to pass a test in this class,  it will tell your memorymaker to put this in short-term memory and to dump it out in</div> <div> After you choose your goals, your brain coach needs to plan a strategy for reading.  A good football coach teaches the team a lot of different strategies, and then chooses the best one for each opponent.   A good brain coach also has a lot of different strategies for different kinds of reading.   Here are some strategies your brain coach might use.</div> <div>      Get the big picture.  Skim or read the back cover or review the chapter headings to get an idea of what the book is about.  Make sure that this book will match your goals.</div> <div>      Estimate how fast you can read the book or what parts you can skip or skim.  Good readers don't read every word, and don't read everything at the same speed.  </div> <div>             Figure out what size chunks you can read comfortably before you need to stop and be sure you are on track.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>2.  While you read</B></div> <div> While you read, your brain coach watches to make sure the rest of your brain is following the strategy and calls time out if the strategy is not working.   </div> <div> Your brainl coach coordinates the meaningmaker, the memory and the wordmaster.</div> <div>      These are some of the strategies your mental coach might use to make sure you are staying on track to achieve your reading goals.</div> <div>      After each chunk of text, stop to make sure that you understand what happened, how that chunk fits into the overall context of the book, and how it connects to what you already know about the world (your mental encyclopedia.)</div> <div>      Argue with the author or carry on a conversation with the author in your mind or in a journal.</div> <div>      Make notes in the margin.</div> <div>      Highlight passages that seem important.</div> <div>      Picture events in your mind-or draw them in a comic strip</div> <div>      Make a chart showing complex relationships.</div> <bR> <div> <B>3.  After you read</B></div> <div> <B>     </B>Your brain coach checks that the meaning is clear and helps memory store important new words and new information that you need to remember to achieve your goal.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Web Sites to Visit</B></div> <div>        For additional materials on training your brain team, check  out the Intersect Digital Library, a collection of articles with reading strategies.<A HREF="http://intersect.uoregon.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://intersect.uoregon.edu"><U>http://intersect.uoregon.edu</U></A> </div> <bR> <div>       Also look at the resources in eduscapes. <A HREF="http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/roller" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/roller"><U>http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/</U></A>roller</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>