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Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper. Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com Lorislatestlinks.com. Thinking Strategies. Sensory Images Making Connnections Questioning Drawing Inferences Determining Importance Synthesis Fix Up Strategies. Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind.
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Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com Lorislatestlinks.com
Thinking Strategies • Sensory Images • Making Connnections • Questioning • Drawing Inferences • Determining Importance • Synthesis • Fix Up Strategies
Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind Predictions Reactions Expression Can’t Stop Reading
Readers unable to create images while reading Lack of Interest in Reading Unable to Describe/ Retell No Emotions To Text
Making Connections Text to Text Text to Self Text to World
Alphaboxes LAVA ISLAND MAGMA
Questioning • Questioning helps the reader clarify ideas and deepen understanding. • I wonder… • Why? • What if? • What does this mean? • Does this make sense?
Location of Answers • In the Book • In the Reader’s Head • Author Gives Clues • Another Book • Another Person
Drawing Inferences • Drawing Inferences is the process of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Determining Importance • Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.
Everyone Read To… Everyone Read to Find Out…. Great One for PowerPoint!
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
Summary Frame • ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ______
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.
Helpful Resources Scholastic Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis Linda Hoyt
Fluency “The ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)
Ways to Improve Fluency • Repeated readings of familiar texts • Partner Reading • Shared Reading • Listening to Books on Tape • Readers Theatre • Reading Series Books