Move Around Read Around
Traditionally, when students were asked to compose an piece of writing (i.e. essay, research paper, short response to an assigned literary work, etc.), they usually do not receive feedback until the final draft of the assignment is graded. In his article, Electronic Read-Arounds , Rick Monroe described the class activity he implemented in his classroom to not only improve his students writing and reading abilities but to also make these processes more interesting and effective. Here was how Monroe carried out the electric read-arounds: 1) On the computer, the students were to write a reflection on the assigned reading within the given amount of time. It was imperative that the students save their work after they completed the assignment. 2) The students were then asked to step away from their computer and move to their neighbors' computer. With a different font or the caps lock key on, each student had ten minutes to read their peers' work, provide comments, include suggested