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Wilmer Elementary December 2015
Remembering What's Important....
Reading Comprehension Strategies....
There are six main types of comprehension strategies (Harvey and Goudvis; 2000):
- Make Connections—Readers connect the topic or information to what they already know about themselves, about other texts, and about the world.
- Ask Questions—Readers ask themselves questions about the text, their reactions to it, and the author's purpose for writing it.
- Visualize—Readers make the printed word real and concrete by creating a “movie” of the text in their minds.
- Determine Text Importance—Readers (a) distinguish between what's essential versus what's interesting, (b) distinguish between fact and opinion, (c) determine cause-and-effect relationships, (d) compare and contrast ideas or information, (e) discern themes, opinions, or perspectives, (f) pinpoint problems and solutions, (g) name steps in a process, (h) locate information that answers specific questions, or (i) summarize.
- Make Inferences—Readers merge text clues with their prior knowledge and determine answers to questions that lead to conclusions about underlying themes or ideas.
- Synthesize—Readers combine new information with existing knowledge to form original ideas, new lines of thinking, or new creations.
Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies.....
When you introduce a new comprehension strategy, model during read-aloud and shared reading:
- Decide on a strategy to model.
- Choose a short text or section of text.
- Read the text ahead of time. Mark locations where you will stop and model the strategy.
- State your purpose—name the strategy and explain the focus of your think-alouds.
- Read the text aloud to students and think aloud at the designated points.
- If you conduct a shared reading experience, have students highlight words and phrases that show evidence of your thinking by placing self-stick notes in the book.
- Reinforce the think-alouds with follow-up lessons in the same text or with others.
Formative Assessment: Formative assessment is a process that uses informal assessment strategies to gather information
Examples/Non-Examples - Encourage your students to provide you with examples and non examples of a topic being studied. The examples and non-examples provide you with information regarding the depth of understanding of your students. For example, during a unit on recycling, ask your students to provide you with examples of recycling and examples that do not involve recycling. While studying a unit on mixtures and solutions in science, review mixtures and determine student understanding by asking students to provide you with examples and non examples of mixtures. Ask students to explain their reasoning for classifying each example and non-example.
PST Meeting
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2015, 08:30 AM
Wilmer Elementary School, Wilmer Georgetown Road, Wilmer, AL, United States
STAR Early/STAR Reading Progress Monitoring Forms Due
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2015, 02:00 PM
Wilmer Elementary School, Wilmer Georgetown Road, Wilmer, AL, United States
2.2 Item Analysis Due
Tuesday, Dec 1, 2015, 02:00 PM
Wilmer Elementary School, Wilmer Georgetown Road, Wilmer, AL, United States
CFA Training
Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015, 08:30 AM
Wilmer Elementary School, Wilmer Georgetown Road, Wilmer, AL, United States
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