Text Rendering: A Teaching Strategy

Text rendering is a great strategy for analyzing text

Here is another strategy that is useful in the classroom. This is a great strategy to use when you are trying to get students of varying abilities to read and respond to text, and also contribute to a whole class discussion. Let's learn about toolkit strategy#2: text rendering.

What Is Text Rendering?

It’s a strategy used to read and analyze any type of reading passage.

How Does It Work?


1. Students are asked to read a selected passage.

2. They think about what they have read, and then highlight a meaningful word, phrase and sentence. This strategy asks students to read, comprehend the text, evaluate what they have read and then synthesize what they have read in order to select the most meaningful bits.

3. The teacher then asks each student to share out the sentence, then the selected phrase and lastly, the word that they have chosen. The shared selections are read aloud without comments or judgment. Repeated selections are allowed.

4. The students then engage in an oral  reflection of the rendering. There is also a discussion about any selections that have been shared  by several students. Students will often see that they share similar ideas about what they’ve read. 

Students like this strategy because it is low stress, everyone participates and it doesn't spotlight students with low reading levels or ability. (Students who are problem readers will be able to just repeat a word/phrase/sentence that they've heard.) The power of this strategy is that it focuses attention on the key elements of the text. 

How do you think that you can use this strategy in your classroom?


  Queen Bee