1. The Importance of Supporting Comprehension in Instruction By
Kendra Wright
2. What does it mean to support comprehension in instruction?
Get to know your reader Oral language development Word recognition
fluency World and domain knowledge and experiences Motivation,
purposes, goals, and strategies
3. What comprehension strategies and instructional strategies
are effective for grades 4-6? Activate prior knowledge Identifying
main ideas Questioning Summarizing
4. Why are these comprehension strategies the most effective to
support transitional, intermediate, and advanced literacy learners?
Activating prior knowledge helps gain new knowledge Check for
understanding Combine main ideas
5. How do cognitive and affective aspects inform comprehension?
Foundations of learning to read Skills Emotions Attitude towards
reading
6. What comprehension strategy and instructional strategy were
used in my lesson? Comprehension Background knowledge Check for
understanding Vocabulary check Instructional Visual representation
Compose comprehension in head Collaboration
7. How do comprehension strategies and instructional strategies
differ? Comprehension helps with understanding the text Instruction
helps guide students into specific situations to enhance
comprehension
8. References International Reading Association (IRA) and
National Council of Teachers of English. (2014a).ReadWriteThink.
Retrieved from
http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?grade=13&resource_type=6&lear
ning_objective=8 Laureate Education (Producer). (2014g).
Conversations with Ray Reutzel: Supporting comprehension [Audio
file]. Baltimore, MD: Author. Parr, C., & Woloshyn, V. (2013).
Reading Comprehension Strategy Instruction in a First-Year Course:
An Instructor's Self-Study. Canadian Journal For The Scholarship Of
Teaching And Learning, 4(2) Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B.,
Jr. (2011). Strategies for reading assessment and instruction:
Helping every child succeed (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson. SEDL.
(2013). Cognitive elements of reading. Retrieved
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