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Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper

Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper. Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com. Thinking Strategies. Sensory Images Making Connnections Questioning Drawing Inferences Determining Importance Synthesis Fix Up Strategies. Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind. Predictions. Reactions.

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Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper

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  1. Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com

  2. Thinking Strategies • Sensory Images • Making Connnections • Questioning • Drawing Inferences • Determining Importance • Synthesis • Fix Up Strategies

  3. Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind Predictions Reactions Expression Can’t Stop Reading

  4. Readers unable to create images while reading Lack of Interest in Reading Unable to Describe/ Retell No Emotions To Text

  5. Strategies to Help with Sensory Images

  6. Mind Maps

  7. Making Connections Text to Text Text to Self Text to World

  8. Alphaboxes LAVA ISLAND MAGMA

  9. Questioning • Questioning helps the reader clarify ideas and deepen understanding. • I wonder… • Why? • What if? • What does this mean? • Does this make sense?

  10. Location of Answers • In the Book • In the Reader’s Head • Author Gives Clues • Another Book • Another Person

  11. Thick and Thin Questions

  12. Think Alouds/Sticky Notes

  13. Drawing Inferences • Drawing Inferences is the process of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.

  14. Use cartoons

  15. Determining Importance • Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.

  16. Main Idea Sticky Notes

  17. Everyone Read To… Everyone Read to Find Out…. Great One for PowerPoint!

  18. Synthesis • “Synthesis is about organizing the different pieces to create a mosaic, a meaning, a beauty, greater than the sum of each shiny piece.” – Ellin Keene

  19. Summary Frame • ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ______

  20. Comprehension Frame • We read ______________. The most important thing about this text is ______________________________. The reader can use this information to help them _________________________. The reader will also learn about ________________ and _____________ in this text.

  21. Helpful Resources Scholastic Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis Linda Hoyt

  22. Fluency “The ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)

  23. Ways to Improve Fluency • Repeated readings of familiar texts • Partner Reading • Shared Reading • Listening to Books on Tape • Readers Theatre • Reading Series Books

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