Reading for Understanding vs. Memorizing

25th Jan 2009 Posted in: MINI-LESSONS

How many of you have seen students highlight an entire page of text or stay up way too late cramming for the next days exam? In an effort to remember and perform well in school, many students mistake memory for understanding. They believe they just remember the facts…all of them, school will be easy.

Absorbing volumes of information is a short term solution. For the brain to retain, understand, and apply information, active processing is required.  This weeks lessons models this "sifting and sorting" process in action. 

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