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Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions

Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions. DO NOW: Please take a sheet and complete the first two columns of the K-W-L chart If you would like this PowerPoint now, please email me and I will forward it to you before we begin. aitkene@freyberg.ac.nz.

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Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions

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  1. Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions DO NOW: Please take a sheet and complete the first two columns of the K-W-L chart If you would like this PowerPoint now, please email me and I will forward it to you before we begin. aitkene@freyberg.ac.nz

  2. Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions POP QUIZ • Making Connections • Determining Important Ideas • Synthesising • Repairing Comprehension • Skimming • Scanning • Asking Questions • Clarifying Vocabulary • Visualising • Making Inferences/ Inferring What is reading comprehension?

  3. MOVING FROM DECODING TO COMPREHENDING Alverro But proficient reading comprehension is a “complex process involving knowledge, experience, thinking, and teaching” (Durkin, 1994, cited in Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 14) Simple View of Reading Reading Comprehension = Decoding + Language Comprehension (aural) When a baby giraffe is born it is already six feet tall. What are reading disabilities?

  4. Types of Reading Disability DYSLEXIA PROFICIENT READER SPECIFIC COMPREHENSION DEFICIT MIXED RD How do reading disabilities develop?

  5. Roads to reading disability (Spear-Swerling & Sternberg, 1996) Spear-Swerling, L., & Sternberg, R. L. (1996). Roads to reading disability. In Off track: When poor readers become "learning disabled" (pp. 113-152). Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

  6. Reading is not just ACTIVE but INTERACTIVE A book “…is a printed circuit for your own life to flow through”. “You’re imagining the words, the sounds of the words, and you are thinking of the various characters in terms of people you’ve known – not in terms of the writer’s experience, but your own”. (E. L. Doctorow, in Plimpton, 1998, cited in Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 13) Reading is “an act of composition” “stimulate their own thinking” “Readers construct and maintain understanding by merging their thinking with the text. “ongoing inner conversation with the author… a dialogue of sorts” (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p.21) Am I not already teaching reading comprehension?

  7. “Comprehension strategies are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Teaching strategies for strategies sake is simply not the point.” • (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 14, emphasis added)c To get readers to: think when they read develop an awareness of their thinking use actively the knowledge they glean Common problem with RC “instruction” in schools Assessing vs. Teaching AIMS of teaching reading comprehension strategies What are reading comprehension strategies?

  8. Reading Comprehension Strategies A repertoire of strategies that “active, thoughtful readers use when constructing meaning from text” (Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 17). Pearson, Dole, Duffy & Roehler(1992): • Searching for Connections (e.g. using schema - Dr Moira Sweetnam Evans) • Asking Questions • Drawing Inferences • Determining Important Ideas • Synthesising • Monitoring & Repairing Comprehension Presley (1976) & Keene & Zimmerman (1997) added: • Sensory imaging/ Visualising Other important skills: • Skimming • Scanning • Clarifying Vocabulary How should I teach RCS?

  9. Gradual Release of Responsibility • Introduce the strategies explicitly • Model their use • Guide students to use the strategies • Allow students to use them on their own and provide opportunities to practice! (repeated reading) BEST PRACTICE Metacognitive Approach: teaching students to be conscious of their inner conversation

  10. STRATEGIES LEARNING ACTIVITIES Memory party game Quick-fire quiz (beep) Sticky-notes Dictionary races Drawing pictures Matching meanings or single-statement competitions T-S T-T T-W Y-chart Acetate sheets (OHTs) & w/b pens Character-limit summaries(420characters.net) Repeated reading • Skimming • Scanning • Asking Questions • Clarifying Vocabulary • Visualising • Making Inferences/ Inferring • Making Connections • Determining Important Ideas • Synthesising • Repairing Comprehension Activities to help students become aware of reading strategies

  11. The woman swore as the piece of lego punctured her heel. • He slammed his fist on the table. • Her face flushed red and she hurriedly looked away. • He tiptoed down the passage stifling the need to laugh. Inference

  12. Repeated reading • School Journals • Don’t shy away from challenging your students and use real texts (e.g. http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/peace/nukenviro.html#tests; Reading of nuclear testing article) • Literacy@Freyberg • What can you do in your class in the next term/month? Final thoughts

  13. Strategies that Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement – Harvey & Goudvis, 2007. (book) Teaching Reading Comprehension – Alison Davis (book) CSI: Comprehension Strategies Instruction (box) RESOURCES

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