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WELCOME!I am so excited to
be with you today!!!
HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE COMPREHENSION INSTRUCTION FOR
STRUGGLING STUDENTSSESSION 1
Jill Jackson
jill@jackson‐consulting.com
If you’ve thought there has to be a better way to get kids to
get to benchmark than coming up with a new plan, scheme
or magic bullet every semester and knowing that, in the end,
that same kids will end up needing intervention upon
intervention after all this work!
If you look at your bookshelf and get overwhelmed at all of
the resources you could and should be using, but still feel like
you don’t know where to start!
If you know in your heart that your kids can learn, but it
seems like some kids are destined for needing lifetime
intervention and some are going to be alright, regardless of
what you do.
• How to determine exactly what it is that students need to learn and avoid wasting
time on the things that would be nice, but are not necessary
• How to use the if/then chart for differentiating instruction to get kids to and
beyond benchmark
Differentiating Our Teaching
A series of logical steps
Not knee‐jerk reaction freak‐outs and endless do‐overs
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We know too much about teaching students to read to be illogical about how we teach
them!
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Changing Our Thinking
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This is What Matters
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The Big Picture of Our Series
Session 1: Understanding why students struggle to understand what they’re read and how to identify a starting point for comprehension and critical thinking instruction
Session 2: Identifying the Top 5 comprehension and critical thinking skills…and how to teach them
Session 3: Identifying the Top 5 comprehension and critical thinking skills…and how to teach them
Session 4: Lesson planning, choosing text and applying comprehension and critical thinking skills across the content areas
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In This Session We Will Look At…
Understanding why students struggle to understand what
they’re read and how to identify a starting point for
comprehension and critical thinking instruction
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Skill vs. Activity
Formula
Recipe
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What is Critical Thinking?
• Seeing both sides
• Being open to new evidence
• Reasoning
• Demanding evidence
• Deducing
• Inferring from facts
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Interpret Verify
Think Logically
Apply Reason
Critical Thinking Requires the Reader to Do 4 Things
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Comprehension v. Critical Thinking
Comprehension is…
Knowing what the text says
Critical thinking is…
Whether to believe it or not
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Process of Thinking
Knowledge of a Topic
CRITICAL THINKING
CAN HAPPEN
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Advanced Students
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Benchmark Students
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Below Benchmark Students
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jackson‐consulting.com/teach‐kids‐critically‐text/
$49.00 for done‐for‐you lessons and differentiated resources