JUICE

JUICE

     This reading strategy emphasizes reading in pairs as a collaborative study experience. When I took math class last semester, my friend didn’t understand derivative. I explained her about derivative and solved some derivative questions together. After I taught her, I realized that teaching others also helps me to understand better. I think collaborative study, especially teaching each other, is a beneficial method for both students. In this reading strategy, selecting reading buddy is key to the success. I am taking history of illustration course with my roommate. We have assigned a great deal of difficult reading for homework. So, we decided to apply JUICE reading strategy to our reading assignment.

The material we read

     JUICE reading strategy is divided into five steps. First step is job. We had to read four sections of the chapter. So, in this step, we decided what material has to be read, when the reading must be completed, and what environment is conductive for reading and discussion. In this step, both readers have to be careful to schedule because they have different reading style and pace. The first step clarifies the roles and the responsibilities of each reader.

     Second step is understand. Both of us read same sections of the chapter. We read four sections of the chapter. We tried to concentrate understanding general concepts of the each section rather than memorizing. While we were reading the sections of the text, we marked the important and difficult parts. Since in the JUICE reading strategy, one reader teaches the material to the other, both of us should decide who will play the role of teacher and who will be student for which sections of the material. While we were doing the second step, we focused our attention on understanding the reading.

The "instructor" reader teaches "student" reader.

The third step is instruct. This step is the most important step in the reading strategy. For each section of the chapter, one of us was assigned the role of “instructor.” The instructor reader taught the materials in the section to other reader. The first instructor was my roommate. She explained the section with her own words. While she taught me, I wrote down questions and detected mistakes. Although we finished three sections of the chapter, we couldn’t finish the final section because it was difficult to both of us. So, we decided to ask the questions about the difficult section during the professor’s office hour. I realized the important thing in this step. I can understand better if I teach the material to my roommate rather than simply studying it alone.

While I was listening my roommate's teaching, I wrote down questions and detected mistakes.

The fourth step is critique. In this step, the other reader is assigned the role of “student.” The student listens the instructor’s teaching, detects mistakes, and asks questions. This step was difficult. For the successful reading, instructor should explain clear and understandable and student listens instructor’s lecture carefully. Both of us are students, so we didn’t have experience to teach others. Although this step was challenged for us, we learned many things through collaborate study experience.

JUICE reading strategy is exchange knowledge with ohters.

 

The fifth step is exchange. After the instructor reader finished teaching assigned material, the student reader summarized what the instructor reader taught. Both of us then exchanged our thoughts and discussed about the anticipated exam questions. In this step, we agreed/disagreed the important points in the materials. Creating exam question was an effective review tool to both of us.

Although JUICE reading strategy was more complicated than studying alone, I learned many things from collaborative study. When I study alone, my learning is limited to my own thoughts. However, when I study together, I can also learn others’ thought and we can exchange our knowledge. After we did instructor and student step, we made exam questions. It helped me a lot to understand the material. If time allows, I want to try this strategy again.