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Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking

Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking. Outline. Introduction Self-Questioning Strategies Monitoring / Clarifying Strategies Visualizing Strategies. Introduction. Purpose: to guide thinking during reading by… Monitoring understanding Making connections to the text

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Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking

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  1. Using Comprehension Strategies to Guide Thinking

  2. Outline • Introduction • Self-Questioning Strategies • Monitoring / Clarifying Strategies • Visualizing Strategies

  3. Introduction • Purpose: to guide thinking during reading by… • Monitoring understanding • Making connections to the text • Clarifying meaning • Responding actively • Three types: • Self-Questioning • Monitoring / Clarifying • Visualizing

  4. Self-Questioning Strategies • Generating questions to guide thinking while reading. • Strategies: • Question-Answer Relationships • I Wonder… Statements • Request • Paired Questioning

  5. Paired Questioning • Take turns generating text-related questions and responding to them. • At the end, one person summarizes and the other agrees or disagrees and justifies. • Can use titles/subtitles, paragraphs, or whole sections of text. • Discussion is encouraged.

  6. Paired Questioning

  7. Paired Questioning How can Paired Questioning help us understand text?

  8. Monitoring / Clarifying Strategies • Throughout reading, ask self: “Does this make sense?” • If yes, keep reading. If no: • Reread text closely, • Look up words, and • Clarify the meaning of the text. • Strategies • Bookmark Technique • Say Something • KWL and KWLS • INSERT

  9. Bookmark Technique • Monitor comprehension • Make evaluative judgments about the text • Constantly asking ourselves: “Does this make sense?” • Best used for: • Narrative and expository text • In-class or homework assignments • Page and paragraph numbers help during class discussion

  10. Bookmark Technique How can you use the Bookmark Technique in other content areas? What might you change to adapt it to literature, math, science, younger students, older students?

  11. Visualizing Strategies • Creating mental images • Works best for narrative or expository text • Remember • You don’t have to be an artist! • Simple lines and shapes are OK. • Strategies: • Photographs of the Mind • Guided Imagery • Gallery Images

  12. Gallery Images • Creating visualizations while reading • Provide a format for sharing these images • Works best for: informational text

  13. Stock Market Crash • Lots of Foreclosures • Banks were in trouble • Didn’t end until WWII

  14. Creating mental images and sharing them helps English Language Learners communicate and express themselves and what they understand.

  15. Questions?

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