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Reading Comprehension
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THIS PAGE IS UNDERCONSTRUCTION Reading Comprehension Strategies Some tips for teaching reading comprehension strategies: -
Model each strategy whenever you are reading text to or with children, such as during a read aloud, guided reading, content area text, independent reading, etc. -
Keep anchor charts of your thinking as well as students' thinking. -
If you are going to use post-it notes, as mentioned in many books, please keep in mind that children will overly concentrate on the post-it notes instead of the strategies themselves. Although post-it notes are great ways to jot down their thinking, expose them to other ways of recording their thoughts, such as a reader's response journal, T-charts, graphic organizers, etc.
1. Making Connections Children make personal connections with the text by using their schema (background knowledge). There are three main types of connections we make while reading text. -
Text-to-Self (T-S) refers to connections made between the text and the reader's personal experience. -
Text-to-Text (T-T) refers to connections made between a text being read to a text that was previously read. -
Text-to-World (T-W) refers to connections made between a text being read and something that occurs in the world. It is important to activate children's schema (background knowledge) before, during, and after reading. 2. Questioning Questions help students clarify and deepen understanding of the text they are reading. Teachers should model coding of the different types of questions. Codes for questions vary according to different authors and books on comprehension strategies. Use codes that suit your students' needs. You can even create your own codes with your students' help! 3. Visualization -
Mental pictures are the cinema unfolding in your mind that make reading three-dimensional. -
Visualization helps readers engage with text in ways that make it personal and memorable. -
Readers adapt their images as they continue to read. 4. Inferring Usually referred to as "reading between the lines". This strategy usually involves: -
Forming a best guess using evidence -- context clues, picture clues, etc. -
Making predictions -
Drawing conclusions -
Finding meaning of unknown words 5. Determing Importance People are bombarded daily with information. Knowing the purpose for reading helps determine what's important. Reader's need to distinguish between: This strategy works great in conjunction with a nonfiction unit of study. 6. Synthesising Thinking evolves through a process. Reader's thinking changes as they gather more information. New information makes the reader re-evaluate their schema to form new schema.
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