Interactive Reading for Improved Learning

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As teachers, we would like to believe that when students do the assigned reading, they will understand the content it covers and so can be tested on it or given new information that builds on that understanding. When students do not demonstrate understanding of a reading, it’s easy to conclude that they simply did not do it.

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  1. This article has good suggestions but given the time framework for classes i strongly feel that this would be a good tool for upper division classes

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