Strengthening Comprehension across

ALL content areasBy: Eric Johnson and Lynda Maldonado

Celebrations ●Positive Teacher / Student relationships

●Progress Charts

●Word walls

●Student work displayed

Suggestions to Strengthen Comprehension

●Reading Strategies

●Metacognitive Strategies

●Building Vocabulary Strategies

● Language Objectives

Suggestions – Reading Strategies ●Pre-Reading Strategies (building 50% of comprehension)

● Skimming (quickly read through text)

● Scanning (quickly reading over titles, images, captions, etc…)

● Previewing Text

●During Reading ● Stop and Jot (www.theteachertoolkit.com)

● Think Aloud - http://www.vdoe.whro.org/elementary_reading/ThinkAloud1-20-2010_F8_FastStart_512k.swf

Suggestions – Metacognitive Strategies

● Identify where/what difficulty occurs and make note on paper.

● Relate it to real life

●Word Etymology

●Explicitly teach prefix, roots, suffix.

Suggestions – Building Vocabulary●Brick and Mortar

Suggestions – Building Vocabulary

●Who Am I?

●Cognates

Language Objectives to Help ALL Students Build Vocabulary

○Task-oriented objective that practices at least one of the four language domains (integrates the ELPS)○

○Clearly written and communicated in formal language.○

○Incorporated in the lesson and used by the students to support the development of the content concepts.○

○Shared directly with the students orally.

Examples of Language Objectives

Focus: Transition words / Speaking

Examples of Language Objectives

Focus: Language function / Writing

Examples of Language Objectives

Focus: Key Vocabulary / Speaking

Questions over Presentation

Thanks for all you do!!