Principles of Effective Media Utilization

• Media Literacy- It is the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media.

Text

Television

Video

• Textbooks have long been the foundation of classroom instruction.

• Text Literacy is the ability to use text as a means to gather information or to communicate.

• Reading and Writing are the two aspects to becoming literate in the use of texts as part of the learning process.

Text

• Text materials include:

Text

Text

• Reading is the ability to look at text and gather knowledge from the message.

• Writing is the ability to generate text through tools such as pencils, pens, or computers to communicate.

•Availability

•Flexibility

•Portability

•User Friendly

• Reading level

• Memorization

• Vocabulary

• One way presentation

• Curriculum Determination

• Cursory Appraisal

• The most common application of text materials is presenting information.

• Designing a good text-based materials involves a few basic elements:

Font Choice

Background and Patterns

Arrangement

Check and Revise

Text-based materials are used in all subject areas and with students

• Consider all the types of text based materials your students will be encountering in your classroom as well as their individual reading abilities.

• Be sure that the students are able to read and comprehend the messages that they encounter.

• Address your students’ literacy levels

• Address materials

• Be sure that the students can read other content area text and resources as well.

When to Use Text-Based Materials

GUIDELINES EXAMPLE

Reading text information for which they will be held accountable

Students read an assigned article from an online source.

Supplementing teacher-presented material Students use library books, encyclopedias,or newspapers to add to their knowledge of a topic.

Using handouts that guide them through learning activities

Students use a step-by-step guide to write abook report.

Implementing the Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review method (SQ3R)

Student survey, ask questions, read, recite, and review printed information about the Bill of Rights.

Use when student learning will be enhanced by:

Using Text Materials: SQ3R

• Survey stage requires students to skim through the text material and read the overview and/or summary.

• Question stage requires students to write a list of questions to answer while reading.

• Read stage, students are led to look for the organization of the material, put brackets around the main ideas, underline supporting details, and answer the questions written in the previous step.

• Recite requires them to test themeselves while reading and put the content into their own words.

• Review suggests that the students look over the material immediately after reading it, the next day, a week later, and so on (Robinson, 1946).

• Direct student reading with objectives or questions, and provide a worksheet if one is not included with the materials.

• Emphasize the use of visuals in text materials and teach students to study visuals in an effort to increase their comprehension of the content.