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Comprehension Strategies to Add to Your Toolbox

Comprehension Strategies to Add to Your Toolbox. By, Melanie Vatier & Blair Dolan. What is comprehension?. Text Comprehension: The ability to understand or get meaning from any type of written material. It is the reason for reading and a critical component of all content learning.

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Comprehension Strategies to Add to Your Toolbox

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  1. Comprehension Strategies to Add to Your Toolbox By, Melanie Vatier & Blair Dolan

  2. What is comprehension? • Text Comprehension: The ability to understand or get meaning from any type of written material. It is the reason for reading and a critical component of all content learning.

  3. Comprehension is… the thinking done before, during, and after reading. (Fountas p.323) It is not something that happens after reading.

  4. If readers can read the words but do not understand what they are reading, they are not really reading. Now it’s you turn to become the reader who cannot comprehend…

  5. Comprehension StrategyPredicting with a Story Impression • Teacher picks a fictional story and extracts key story element words/phrases • The students predict the story using the keywords • The students must use the words as they are and use the words in the order they appear in the book • The teacher reads the story • The students compare their story to the actual story

  6. Comprehension StrategyThick and Thin Questions • Thick Questions are questions that… • are coming from both the book and your though process (these are usually inferential questions) • are answered in several sentences • Thin Questions are questions that… • come directly from the text (these are recall questions) • are answered in one or two words

  7. Comprehension StrategyThree-Minute Pause • Summarize Key Ideas Thus Far: in groups students will focus on summarizing key points (1 minute) • Add Your Own Thoughts: students are connecting prior knowledge to text (1 minute) • Pose Clarifying Questions: students are asking questions to gain clarity (1 minute) (as modeled by Jay McTighe) http://www.readingquest.org

  8. Comprehension StrategyOWL • O — what you observe or notice • W — what do you wonder • L — link it to you life http://www.readinglady.com

  9. OWLO — what you observe Have the kids sit in a circle. The teacher would read aloud a book then open up to a page and  "observe" something. Then the teacher gives the one copy of the book to the next person and they open to a page to observe something in the book. The book travels all the way around the circle. Each child has an opportunity to share an observation. http://www.readinglady.com

  10. OWLW — what you wonder Then the teacher passes the book around again and do the "wonder". The kids open back to the page where they shared their observation. Now they wonder about their page. The teacher models first then the kids wonder about their page. Once again, everyone has a chance. http://www.readinglady.com

  11. OWLL — link it to your life Then the teacher reads aloud the book to the class. If the book is at a class reading level, the kids read for the purpose of finding a link to their life. The teacher and the kids will pass the book again and do "link" to their life. http://www.readinglady.com

  12. Comprehension StrategyMagic Squares • Vocabulary reinforcement activity that gives additional exposure to terms after reading is completed. • The students match key vocabulary words to their correct definitions. • The students will record answers in magic square grid made up of boxes.

  13. Comprehension StrategyMagic Squares Vocabulary ListDefinition List A. capital 1. Myrtle Beach B. Carolina 2. state motto jessamine 3. state song C. palmetto 4. state stone D. “dum spiro 5. designed by spero” Colonel William E. milk Moultrie F. symbols 6. state tree G. shag 7. state bird H. Carolina wren 8. state flower I. state flag 9. state drink 10. where state govt. is located The Magic 11. is located on the Number =_______ coast 12. state dance 13. one thing that stands for another

  14. Comprehension StrategyMagic Squares Vocabulary ListDefinition List A. capital 1. Myrtle Beach B. Carolina 2. state motto jessamine 3. state song C. palmetto 4. state stone D. “dum spiro 5. designed by spero” Colonel William E. milk Moultrie F. symbols 6. state tree G. shag 7. state bird H. Carolina wren 8. state flower I. state flag 9. state drink 10. where state govt. is located The Magic 11. is located on the Number = 24 coast 12. state dance 13. one thing that stands for another

  15. Comprehension StrategyThinkmark • A tools for students to make quick comments, write questions, or note an interesting phrase or sentence, and mark the appropriate spot in the book • Students then bring the thinkmarks to a group or whole class discussion

  16. Comprehension StrategyThinkmark

  17. Comprehension StrategyABC Brainstorm • Students try to think of a word or phrase associated with the topic, matched to each letter of the alphabet. • This can be done before or after learning a major topic http://www.readingquest.org

  18. Your Turn! • Kindergarten - Story Impression • 1st Grade – Three Minute Pause • 2nd Grade – Thick and Thin Questions • 3rd Grade – Thinkmark • 4th Grade – Magic Squares • 5th Grade – ABC Brainstorm • Special Area – OWL

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