One of my favorite reading and comprehension strategies is the text coding approach from Doug Buehl's Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning. I love this strategy because it forces the student to pause and think about what they are reading about, therefore, helping them with meta-cognitive skills as well as their reading comprehension.
What occurred to me recently is that text coding can be done quite nicely in the Google Docs environment, and can even take on a new life when you share the document with 2 or 3 students and they code simultaneously. This way- students are also becoming cognitive of how other students are reading a document. Very nice.
In this, the second "episode" of Google Apps for the Class, I show how text coding can be done in Google Docs. Hope it's helpful!
