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At the International School Beijing, in the Middle School, teachers use this framework to scaffold the learning, to inform the teaching and use of reading skills across the curriculum.
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Along with these academic leaders, practicing teachers and literacy consultants across Australia, developed a professional development model that evolved into the following website MY Read . In April 2004, ISB then invited My Read consultants Janette Vervoorn and Rita van Haren to our Middle School for a week to conduct a series of in service workshops with all teachers. From this humble beginning, the 4 Roles Framework has now become “a unifying tool for our teaching approaches and has brought consistency to our reading efforts.” (Dale Cox, MS Principal).
Since that time, there have been extensive on going workshops and support for mainstream teachers, Chinese language teachers and parents as the 4 Roles Framework

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Welcome to the 4 Roles Framework as used in the International School Beijing Middle School.
As we read we are encouraged to think. Think in a way that enables us to develop understanding of what we read.
Since that time, there have been extensive on going workshops and support for mainstream teachers, Chinese language teachers and parents as the 4 Roles Framework
Some thoughts on the 4 Roles Framework from faculty and students
Maths teacher
“The structured framework made it easy to do in-depth analysis and achieve a greater understanding of material than what might have been obtained without it. I consider the use of the Four Roles with ICT current events to be an unqualified success!” Bob, ICT teacher
Student Impressions

Text Participant – how the text relates to the reader’s own experience.
Text Analyst – what is the position/purpose of the writer?
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The 4 Reading Roles Framework has been the common term of reference for the teaching and learning of reading and thinking, supporting reading to learn. We have also used the My Read website as a wonderful resource. This site is very practical and provides excellent strategies that can be used immediately in the classroom.
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As we have used this strategy, as with most teaching ideas, we continue to adapt the processes to meet the needs of our students and the circumstances of our school. The information on the My Read website has been a great platform to launch into using a variety of strategies using the 4 Roles as a basis for thinking and developing understanding of many different text genres.
Humanities classes. Here are some thoughts on the 4 Roles Framework from other Middle School Humanities, Maths/ Science and Information Technology teachers.

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My continued work to help students to learn to develop and use their reading and writing skills, stems from my passion and belief that students need to make connections with what they read and though developing excellent questioning skills, cultivate profound understanding. I am often asked to present to a wide range of audiences ranging from parent groups, peers, teachers of second language users and Chinese nationals.
The 4 Roles Framework makes a positive impact on the teaching and learning in not only my Humanities classroom but within other subjects as well. It has been inspiring.

The whole Middle School, as a learning community, continues to embrace the 4 Roles Framework along with the 6 Traits of Writing as a basis for literacy teaching and learning. These provide frameworks to inform the teaching and learning across the curriculum. As research into literacy learning and brain research continues, well developed literacy and thinking frameworks like the 4 Roles Of Reading are essential. Literacy education will continue to have a high profile in meeting the challenges of the 21st Century. The Middle School plays a vital role in this process as learners move from "learning to read" into "reading to learn".
It is important to acknowledge the research done by the people responsible for the development of the My Read website and Dr Jamie McKenzie as they has proven to be the inspiration behind what we have been able to achieve thus far at ISB. I need to also commend the MS teachers at ISB who have so successfully trialled and used the Framework in their classrooms over the last five years.
4 Roles Reading Framework to their reading and thinking skills and learning program.
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I have presented 4 Roles Reading Framework at in Stockholm, international school in China, to faculty (including ChinesChinese language teachers),
Jim Fidler
Teacher Grade 8 Humanities

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Questioning plays such an important role as we engage students in the learning process. I have included below some resources that we have used to guide you and your students through the thinking required to develop strong "Fat" questions.
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