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Responsive Readers. Jen Boysko Krystle Herrin Rachel Tyson UNCC Reading M.Ed graduate students. Dependent readers fail to see reading as an active process. More critical for dependent readers to talk about the text during the reading than after it.
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Responsive Readers Jen Boysko Krystle Herrin Rachel Tyson UNCC Reading M.Ed graduate students
Dependent readers fail to see reading as an active process. • More critical for dependent readers to talk about the text during the reading than after it. • Teachers must pull the invisible process of comprehension out to the visible level. • (Beers, 2003) What does research say about comprehension?
Provides struggling readers with a structure to teach them how to dialogue with the text • Allows for interaction with the text & self monitoring of understanding • As students are using this strategy they are: predicting, visualizing, making comparisons, repairing comprehension problems, commenting connecting, & questioning Think Aloud
Say Something • Interrupts a student's reading giving them a chance to think about what they are reading • Allows for interaction and responses with peers during text reading • Students are able to change roles and practice thinking aloud or responding to partners comments • Helps students make comments, predictions, connections and clarify understanding of text while reading
Variety of uses- vocabulary, compare/contrast, main ideas for chapters/novels • Allows for interactive reading and note taking • Students record VERY brief notes under the corresponding letter. ABC charts
reinforce knowledge and understanding by using key concepts, predictions, and writing • apply knowledge of story structures, as well as inferencing abilities, to predict the content of the selections • collaborative approach allows opportunity for students to engage in listening, speaking, reading, and writing • allows the teacher to emphasize vocabulary, comprehension, and writing within a single lesson Probable Passage
Double Entry Journals • Logographic Cues • Bookmarks • Syntax Surgery • Signal Words • Somebody Wanted to But So • Talking Drawings Additional “During” Reading Strategies
Websites for Comprehension www.adlit.org/strategy_library http://www.teachervision.fen.com/ www.readwritethink.org http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/teachers/studentsuccess/think.html
Jen Boysko • jennifer.boysko@cms.k12.nc.us • Krystle Herrin krystle.herrin@stanlycountyschools.org • Rachel Tyson • rtyson3@uncc.edu • Dr. Adriana Medina • amedina1@uncc.edu Contact Information