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Constructing Meaning

Constructing Meaning. During-Reading Strategies. Things to think about. Struggling readers don’t hear the internal dialogue a good reader has with the text or with herself while reading “it is more critical for dependent readers to talk about texts during the reading than after it.”.

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Constructing Meaning

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  1. Constructing Meaning During-Reading Strategies

  2. Things to think about • Struggling readers don’t hear the internal dialogue a good reader has with the text or with herself while reading • “it is more critical for dependent readers to talk about texts during the reading than after it.”

  3. Chapter 7 examines approaches that help students focus on constructing meaning while reading a text. • predict what will happen next • question what they don’t understand or what is confusing in the text • monitor their understanding of the text • identify ways to fix up what has confused them • clarify what has confused them • comment on the text or their understanding of the text • connect what they are reading to other texts or personal experiences • visualize the text

  4. Say Something • A very simple strategy that interrupts a student’s reading of a text, giving her a chance to think about what she is reading. • “Often struggling readers struggle because while they read, their eyes move over words but their minds move to thoughts of weekend plans, last night’s phone conversation, or after-school sports events.”

  5. Rereading • “Rereading is probably the number one strategy independent readers use when something stumps them in a text. It’s probably the last strategy dependent readers use.”

  6. Think-Aloud • “Good readers have a constant dialogue with the text as they read, although they usually do it silently.”

  7. Strategy Snapshots

  8. Double-Entry Journals • Double-entry journals give students a powerful way to take notes and respond at the same time.

  9. Logographic Cues • Logographic cues are designed to offer readers a high-utility message in a minimum amount of space.

  10. Bookmark types • Mark My Words • Marking Time • Question Mark • Mark Who? • Mark the Bold

  11. ABCs of Comparing and Contrasting • A simple graphic organizer to record information about characters as they read a text.

  12. Post-it Notes • Students use the notes as they construct meaning during reading and teachers use them to help them preserve their own thoughts about students’ progress during discussions.

  13. Character Bulletin Boards • Character bulletin boards give students quick references to characters as the read a novel.

  14. Syntax Surgery • The teacher will copy a paragraph from a text onto an overhead transparency. Then connect the words that are related with circles and lines.

  15. Signal Words • Signal words (or phrases) are words that signal what is about to happen next.

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