Following the Clues: Reading Following the Clues: Reading and Writing for the Digital and Writing for the Digital

Book GenerationBook Generation

Denise JohnsonDenise Johnson

Margaret Peterson HaddixMargaret Peterson Haddix

Hybrid TextsHybrid Texts

Features three teens Features three teens who investigate the who investigate the disappearance of a disappearance of a mutual friendmutual friend

On a companion On a companion website, readers can website, readers can upload their own upload their own clues.clues.

Hybrid TextsHybrid Texts

Alternates between theAlternates between thewritten diary of Ryan, a written diary of Ryan, a housebound teen tying housebound teen tying to investigate strange to investigate strange occurrences in his occurrences in his home town, and the home town, and the video missives of his video missives of his best friend, Sarah which best friend, Sarah which are accessed by logging are accessed by logging onto a website.onto a website.

Hybrid TextsHybrid Texts

Follows Amy and Dan Follows Amy and Dan Cahill as they travel the Cahill as they travel the world to hunt for the world to hunt for the clues that unlock the clues that unlock the family’s power. family’s power.

Each book includes six Each book includes six game cards and an game cards and an online component that online component that reveals important reveals important information about the information about the Cahills and unlocks Cahills and unlocks clues.clues.

Comprehension...Comprehension...

““the process of simultaneously extracting the process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through and constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with interaction and involvement with writtenwritten language” (RAND, 2002, p. 12).language” (RAND, 2002, p. 12).

“Electronic text presents particular challenges to comprehension (e.g., challenges stemming from the nonlinear nature of hypertext)...” (RAND, 2002, p.xv).

Elements of ComprehensionElements of Comprehension

The text: genreThe text: genre

The reader: prior knowledge, inferential The reader: prior knowledge, inferential reasoning skills, self-regulated readingreasoning skills, self-regulated reading

The activity: the reading processThe activity: the reading process

Cycles During the Reading/Listening/Viewing Process

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Semantic CyclePerceptual Cycle

Visual Cycle Syntatic Cycle

Writing Hybrid TextsWriting Hybrid Texts

Is the writing process different for hybrid Is the writing process different for hybrid texts than traditional books?texts than traditional books?

If so, what literacy elements/devices does If so, what literacy elements/devices does the author employ or use differently to the author employ or use differently to write a book which relies on or includes an write a book which relies on or includes an online component?online component?

Benjamin Franklin

Mozart

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Howard Carter

Rasputin

PrincessAnastasia

Amelia Earhart

ShakaZulu

WinstonChurchill

Puyi, the last emperorof China

Anne Bonny and Mary Reade,female pirates

Wherefore art thou, Romeo?

Shakespeare ink pen—Very difficult to write with!

All that glitters is not gold; All’s well that ends well; Bated breath; Be-all and end-all; brave

new world; cold comfort; come what may; devil incarnate; eaten me out of house and home; elbow room; good riddance; it was greek to me; in my mind’s eye; knock, knock, who’s

there; primrose path; sweets to the sweet; truth will out; what the dickens…

Puke

From 1612 deposition: William Shackper1612 Blackfriars deed: William Shakspear1612 Blackfriars mortgage: Wm ShakspeaHis 1615 will, page 1: William Shackspere

Will, page 2: Willm. ShakspereWill, page 3: By me William Shakspeare 

(Interpretations of signatures by Charles Hamilton, In Search of Shakespeare, 1985)

Holy Trinity Church,Stratford-upon-Avon

Site ofShakespeare’s tomb

Jonah Wizard

Madison, Hamilton, and Reagan Holt

Coming April 5, 2011

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