Thinking about Comprehension

EDC423September 10, 2013

Core Areas of Reading

Other Important Areas!

Are all areas important all the time?Development, development, development!

Oral language

Phonemic awareness Phonics

Fluency

Vocabulary Comprehension

VERY important for young

children; building block of literacy; Important at all ages

VERY important for beginning readers (whether young or old)

Important transition from beginning reading to more mature reading

VERY important ALWAYS!!

Stages of Reading Development(Chall, 1983)

Stage

Label Grade What Children are Learning

Activities to Support

0 Prereading (emergent literacy)

PK-K Functions of written language, alphabet, phonemic awareness

Story reading, “pseudo reading,” alphabet activities, rhyming, nursery rhymes, invented spelling

1 Initial Reading/Alphabetic Decoding

K-2 Letter sound correspondences/decoding/word recognition

Teacher-directed reading instruction, phonics instruction

2 Confirmation and fluency

2-3 Automatic word recognition, prosody, expression

Wide and varied reading, modeling fluent reading

3 Reading to Learn

4-8 How to learn from text, vocabulary knowledge, strategies

Reading content area materials, research, strategy instruction

4 Multiple Points of View

HS Reconciling different views

Critical reading, discourse synthesis, report writing

5 Construction and reconstruction

College/beyond

Developing a well-rounded view of the world

Learning what not to read as well as what to read

In This Class, We will Focus on the Three Areas We Are ALWAYS Thinking About:

Create a Graphic!

Why Aren’t the Reading Components Equal?

COMPREHENSIONP

HONEMIC

AWARE

PHONICS

VOCABULARY

FLUENCY

PHONEMIC

AWARE

PHONICS

VOCABULARY

FLUENCY

COMPREHENSION

What if we added the “other” important areas?

COMPREHENSIONP

HONEMIC

AWARE

PHONICS

VOCABULARY

FLUENCY

WRITING

MOTIVATION

Reader Text Teacher/Teaching

Task/Activity Sociocultural Context

Factors that Impact Comprehension

Cornett’s Graphic of Factors that Affect Comprehension

Task

TextLearner

Teacher/Teaching

Comprehension

Context

Create a Graphic!

Comprehension Graphic!

Reader

Task/Activity

Sociocultural

Context

Text

Teacher/Teaching

Comprehension