After Reading

The After Reading activity helps students solidify what they have just read. For me the reading process is equivocal to baking a cake. The Before Reading Activity is aline with the gathering of ingredients and supplies; the During Reading Activity is mixing all the ingredients to make a cake, and the After Reading Activity is the baking of the cake.

I do not think students of today have much experience making cakes, so for this example to work in todays classroom teachers would need to change "baking a cake" to "downloading music onto an IPOD." Maybe if teachers related the reading and writing processes to students in ways that they can connect with, the students would not be so against learning each of these processes.

There are numerous After Activities for teachers to choose from that help students solidify their knowledge, but my favorite is the Cinquain. These little poems would be perfect for helping students develop their own understanding of the text. The Sense Poems would also be fun to experiment with as well.