Reading Comprehension Skills -Common Core State Standards Participants Training Book

1. Reading Comprehension Skills -Common Core State Standards Participants Training Book Name_________________________________

2. Key Points of Training: In the development of this training, it became very clear that – Comprehension Skills, are embedded in the genre’s text structure. Therefore: • In this training, we will learn… • how to recognize Comprehension Skills, as integrated components of Text Structures. Key Take-Aways: • Comprehension skills are not isolated from text structures. • Understanding text structures prepare students to become writers.

3. A skill is the learned capacity to carry out pre-determined results. Skills are evidenced by an end product. Skill Strategy Assembly Line Product A strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a specific goal. Strategies are evidenced by an on-going process.

4. What is a Reading Comprehension Skill? Reading comprehension skills are an extension of the function (purpose and language) of a text’s structure. Reading comprehension skills create a vehicle that allows students to construct meaning within a specific genre structure. 1 Text Structure The Common Core State Standardsrequire students to recognize text structures that are specific to genre on a continuum of increasing complexity.2 Text Structure is a qualitative measure on the CCSS Text Complexity Continuum. 1“Students who are taught to identify the structure of expository and narrative text have been found to have better comprehension than students who have not received such instruction.” (Taylor, 1992) 2“Students must be able to read and comprehend independently and proficiently the kinds of complex texts commonly found in college and careers.”    ~ Common Core State

5. 5 Steps to… Selecting a Comprehension Skill Comprehension skills should. . . • 2 • Support the Genre 1 CCSS Standard • 3 • Parallel the Text Structure • 5 • Assessment Matches Depth of Knowledge • 4 • Connect Reading to Writing

6. 1 CCSS Standard Grade 3 Reading… Common Core Standards Comprehension Skills align with the CCSS genre.

7. Example of Grade 3, CCSS Reading and Writing Genres • 2 • Support the Genre Comprehension Skills are determined by the genre’s structure. CCSS Text Exemplar Lists

8. Common Genre Structures and Patterns of Text • 3 • Parallel the Text Structure Comprehension Skills are titled after text structures. Non-fiction text is written with an emphasis on the function or purpose of the text. Fictional text is written with an emphasis on story elements, however; literary text contain one or more text structures found in informational text. Text Structure with Literacy Leader

9. Text structures- have specific graphic organizers that parallel the reading comprehension skills. Graphic organizers prepare students to write. • 4 • Connect Reading to Writing Comprehension Skills graphic organizers are titled after text structures. Cause and Effect Cause Effect Writing to Read

10. Evidence of skill understanding should match its highest… Depth of Knowledge (DOK) • 5 • Assessment Matches Depth of Knowledge Comprehension Skills have a Depth of Knowledge following text structures. Learning about the structure of stories provides readers with a schema they can use when reading or listening to a new story or writing a story on their own.~ Akimi Gibson

11. How do the 5Steps work together?

12. 5 Steps to Bringing It All Together! • 2 • Support the Genre • 3 • Parallel the Text Structure • 4 • Connect Reading to Writing • 5 • Assessment Matches Depth of Knowledge 1. CCSS Standard

13. Bringing It All Together Select your CCSS Reading Standard. RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. 1. CCSS Standard Select the genre. RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures….. • 2 • Support the Genre Fable 3. Select the genre’s text structure. • 3 • Parallel the Text Structure Cause and Effect

14. Bringing It All Together [cont…] 4. Select a graphic organizer. • 4 • Connect Reading to Writing Cause and Effect Cause Effect Select an assessment to match the DOK. • 5 • Assessment • Matches Depth of Knowledge

15. Selecting a Comprehension Skill - is dependent on the genre’s text structure. Which box is the “comprehension skill?” RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text

16. Instructional Comprehension Skill Planning Tool. Standard: RI.3.3Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. Use the following resource pages to complete this graph.

17. Resources - to help select comprehension skills. 1. CCSS Standard Instruction of comprehension skills begins with knowing the Common Core State Standards. Common Core State Standards CCSS require students to read complex texts, about them, write about them, discuss them, analyze them, and make connections between them. Comprehension skills are the link to constructing meaning of text.

18. 2 • Support the Genre Know text structures. Text structures parallel comprehension skills and language functions. Matching Reading Genre to Text Structure

19. 3 • Parallel the Text Structure Know the Sub-Groups of the common text structures. These are your comprehension skill parallels! Text Structures as Comprehension Skills

20. Know which Graphic Organizers - signify specific text structures. These are your instructional formats to teach comprehension skills. • 4 • Connect Reading to Writing • Write Design Graphic Organizers • Graphic Organizers and Uses • Eduplace Graphic Organizers • Marzano Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers Guide Comprehension Skill Instruction

21. Assess comprehension skills at the standard’s Depth of Knowledge. • 5 • Skill Matches Depth of Knowledge Depth of Knowledge & Bloom’s

22. Webb's Depth of Knowledge Guide Depth of Knowledge Chart K - 12

23. Webb’s and Bloom’s Reference Chart

24. Summary Did we achieve… • how to recognize Comprehension Skills, as integrated components of Text Structures? Is it clear why… • comprehension skills are not isolated from text structures? • understanding text structures prepare students to become writers? CELEBRATE!

25. Next Steps… • Comprehension Skill Instruction • Reading Strategies Guide the Way Goodbye