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 * Scaffolding the Online Inquiry Process **

**Promising Practices for Supporting Online Reading Comprehension Development**


 * //__Guideline 1__//**: **Help students understand the unique relationship between offline and online reading strategy use.**
 * **Promising practices:**
 * Compare offline and online texts and reading purposes
 * Offer strategy-based models of effective online thinking
 * Provide explicit strategy lessons embedded in scenario-based online reading tasks


 * //__Guideline 2__//**: **Honor the literacy contributions students bring to school contexts from their daily lives.**
 * **Promising practices:**
 * Foster a classroom culture that recognizes the positive contributions of every student
 * Facilitate class discussions about the different purposes, procedures, and audiences associated with emerging online literacy practices
 * Encourage students to explore and integrate multiple forms and genres of texts


 * //__Guideline 3__//**: **Explore and** **clarify expectations about new classroom roles and relationships embedded in problem-based online collaborations.**
 * **Promising practices:**
 * Clarify new roles and relationships for collaborating with peers
 * Clarify new roles and relationships between students and teachers
 * Clarify new roles for collaborating with outside experts
 * Clarify new roles for collaborating with other teachers


 * //__Guideline 4__//**: **Allow time for students to develop positive dispositions toward learning and communicating with the Internet.**
 * Promising practices:
 * Embed motivational/affective aspects of learning into instruction
 * Immerse students in a culture that emphasizes creativity, innovation, flexibility, and responsibility toward learning with the Internet
 * Design collaborative inquiry projects that naturally prompt interdisciplinary connections


 * //__Guideline 5__//**: **Use self-, peer-, and teacher assessments as inquiry to inform reading strategy use and classroom instruction.**
 * Promising practices:
 * Encourage students to share and reflect on their online reading strategy use during each phase of the inquiry process
 * Teach students how to set and monitor realistic online comprehension goals
 * Employ multiple alternative forms of assessment
 * Evaluate group and individual online learning processes and products

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