Effective Comprehension Effective Comprehension StrategiesStrategies

Effective Comprehension Effective Comprehension StrategiesStrategies

Pembroke Elementary School

Squiggle Squiggle Writing~Writing~

Trace the squiggle and create a picture

that relates to reading. Write a sentence telling how your picture

relates to reading!

“True comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text. If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a superficial understanding of the text.”Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

“True comprehension goes beyond literal understanding and involves the reader’s interaction with text. If students are to become thoughtful, insightful readers, they must extend their thinking beyond a superficial understanding of the text.”Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis

Language

Reading Thinking

Reading IS Thinking

“The purpose of reading is understanding.”

Teaching Readers How Teaching Readers How To Think As They Read!To Think As They Read!

•Predict•Question•Clarify•Summarize

Asking Questions: The Strategy That Propels Readers Forward“Questioning is the strategy that keeps readers engaged. When readers ask questions, they clarify understanding and forge ahead to make meaning. Asking questions is at the heart of thoughtful reading.”

Harvey and Goudvis

Questioning Questioning StrategiesStrategies

•EOG Fans•Before, During, After•Forming Questions

•QARs•Questioning Webs

Consider this….• 140 Minutes Minimum with a

maximum of 240 minutes• 8-9 different “cold read”

selections• Fiction, Non-fiction,

Informational, Poetry• 58 multiple-choice questions• Challenging

Vocabulary/Questions• Expectations: Critically

Analyze & Evaluate Texts

~A Strategy For Silent Reading

Influences on Learning

Student

TaskInstruction

Match=Success

Comprehension Strategies

• Reciprocal Teaching• Quad Reading• Forming Questions• Questions Before, During

& After• Runner Cards~ Review

of Testing Strategies• Character Trading Cards• Graphic organizers• Storyboards• Activities that support

activating prior knowledge

• Text Structure: Teaching students how to read nonfiction text

• Independent Codes ~ Strategies for silent reading

• Show Down• QAR~ Question and

Answer Relationships• Summarizing

HomeworkHomework• Teach/Reflect: Choose (1)

strategy/activity to try with your students. What worked; What didn't; What can I do differently; I need help with...; This worked for my students because...

• Write reflection and be prepared to share with small group.

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