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Overview of Comprehension strategies

Overview of Comprehension strategies. AiZ Learning Leaders Session 7. Agenda. Reviewing between session activity of session 6 Reflection on practices, skills and strategies needed by students and teachers. Between Session Action. What professional reading did you do in the past two weeks?

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Overview of Comprehension strategies

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  1. Overview of Comprehension strategies AiZ Learning Leaders Session 7 Sandra Pizaro

  2. Agenda • Reviewing between session activity of session 6 • Reflection on practices, skills and strategies needed by students and teachers. Sandra Pizaro

  3. Between Session Action • What professional reading did you do in the past two weeks? • Why were these chosen? • What did you learn from them? • Discuss the data you passed on to your colleagues • What strategies or skills did you discuss? • Did you trial a different teaching practice? Sandra Pizaro

  4. Using the data sources • Explored in the first and 6th session. • The evidence showed:- • Making inferences • Infer • Working out meaning of words and phrases • Context clues • Making links between directly stated ideas in a text • Making connections Most difficult   Difficult  Sandra Pizaro

  5. What tools did we use to strengthen the item knowledge? • VELS Standards, Progression Points, Continuum • Professional reading • variety of resources • How can this information be carried forward? Sandra Pizaro

  6. Reviewing and discussing your data to sustain teaching strategies • How was the data used? • How did you support the staff to develop an understanding of the use of data? • What did you find were the areas of concern? Sandra Pizaro

  7. How can this be achieved?Taking into account... Sandra Pizaro

  8. 3 Factors that Influence Comprehension • 1. The Student • 2. The Text - (reading, writing, speaking and listening) • 3. The Purpose / The Focus • Explicit teaching Sandra Pizaro

  9. Explicit teaching of… • Routines / Process • What does this mean? How does having a routine support learning? • Discuss • Individual Strategies • What strategies are in place and what strategies will come next? • Discuss • Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate = e5 Sandra Pizaro

  10. ACTIVITY (Modelling)Text Structure and Features Essential Elements • Getting Knowledge Ready • Vocabulary • Paraphrasing • Summarising • Reading aloud / Visualising • Questioning / questions • Reviewing / reflection • Explicit teaching • across the strategies for comprehension • Constructingthe meaning Whole group discussion Sandra Pizaro

  11. Essential Elements to develop mastery of comprehension in the three issues to improve comprehension • Getting Knowledge Ready • Vocabulary • Paraphrasing • Summarising • Reading aloud / Visualising • Questioning / questions • Reviewing / reflection • What needs to be taught to improve…? Sandra Pizaro

  12. What needs to be taught to improve...? • Make links between directly stated ideas in a text. • Work out the meaning of phrases (words) in context. • Infer messages in any communication. What ideas can be found using the resources? • Strategies That Work – Harvey and Goudvis • Teaching Comprehension 6 – 9 • LIST ON THE TEMPLATE Sandra Pizaro

  13. Getting Knowledge Ready / Prediction / Prior Knowledge / Inferring What have you found? • Review Professional Reading Sandra Pizaro

  14. Vocabulary • Building Vocabulary • Word splash • Word lists – class or personal • Applying word knowledge in reading and writing? Sandra Pizaro

  15. Visualising (out of reading aloud or reading to) • Visualising has 3 levels:- • Context Level • Sentence Level • Word Level (vocabulary) Sandra Pizaro

  16. Questions and Questioning • What teaching strategies are used to engage? • Importance of wait time • Listen to the student and don’t repeat. • Levels of questioning • Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions Sandra Pizaro

  17. Paraphrasing and Summarising • Finding the key words • Note taking • Retelling • Building summarising skills • delete, substitute, keep • Hint: - Use known texts to develop paraphrasing and summarising skills – concentrate on the learning of the new strategy not the content and the strategy. Sandra Pizaro

  18. Online Resources • Inanimate Alice • On line Library Sandra Pizaro

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