Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper

Lori ElliottSDEtosaelliott@gmail.com

Thinking StrategiesSensory ImagesMaking ConnnectionsQuestioningDrawing InferencesDetermining ImportanceSynthesisFix Up Strategies

Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind

PredictionsReactions

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

Strategies to Help with Sensory Images

Mind Maps

Making ConnectionsText to TextText to SelfText to World

AlphaboxesA B C D E F

G H I J K L

M N O P Q R

S T U V W X

Y Z

LAVAISLAND

MAGMA

Before Reading

Statement After Reading

If you hopped like a frog, you could jump from home plate to 1st base in one leap. If you were as strong as an ant, you could lift a bus.

If you jumped like a flea, you could land on Lady Liberty’s torch.

If you grew as fast in your 1st nine months as you did in the nine months before you were born, you would be as big as an elephant.

QuestioningQuestioning helps the reader

clarify ideas and deepen understanding.

I wonder…Why?What if?What does this mean?Does this make sense?

Location of AnswersIn the BookIn the Reader’s HeadAuthor Gives CluesAnother BookAnother Person

Thick and Thin Questions

Think Alouds/Sticky Notes

Drawing InferencesDrawing Inferences is the process

of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Use cartoons

Determining Importance

Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.

Main Idea Sticky NotesMain Idea Details My

Response

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________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________

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Comprehension FrameWe 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

Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis

Linda Hoyt

Scholastic

Fluency“The ability to read

a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)

Ways to Improve FluencyRepeated readings of familiar

textsPartner ReadingShared ReadingListening to Books on TapeReaders TheatreReading Series Books