[95] Interestingly, a recent piece in The Reading Teacher makes exactly this point
about the comprehension strategy instruction of the 1980s.
The reading support team had volunteered to teach the classes because they believed that struggling learners could achieve and wanted to improve their own practice by learning
about comprehension strategy instruction.
Not exact matches
This fall, that
strategy is exciting students — and their parents —
about reading and its improving reading
comprehension.
Wire Side Chat: Helping «Fake Readers» Become Proficient Life - Long Readers Cris Tovani, author of the best - selling «I Read It, But I Don't Get It,» chats with Education World
about her checkered reading past and
about her widely acclaimed work with students and teachers in the area of reading
comprehension strategies.
Audio and video
strategies provide the learner with additional information
about tone and body language that can improve
comprehension and engagement.
While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading
comprehension is by giving them skills —
strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge
about things like the Civil War or human biology.»
Here's What You'll Get and Why: My goal was to make it easy to teach readers how to think
about «How I Spent My Summer Vacation» using a variety of
comprehension strategies.
It is a detailed and extensive resource which includes a wide range of classroom activities for pupils of all abilities: Making predictions
about the story Animated film of The Owl and the Pussycat Retelling
strategies and
comprehension questions Cloze exercise and storyboarding activities Tackling unfamiliar words and using a dictionary Rhyming words lesson with interactive game Identify adjectives in The Owl and the Pussycat A lesson on using adjectives to improve writing Compound words lesson and activities Create a children's story book Full unit of work overview
«So, she has talked
about reciprocal teaching being part of every strand, from
comprehension, transition, through to
strategies.
It's a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading
comprehension is by giving them skills —
strategies like «finding the main idea» — rather than instilling knowledge
about things like the Civil War or human biology.
Young readers aren't always aware of when their
comprehension has broken down, so hearing teachers talk
about their internal thought processes can help students mimic the
strategy.
Only 5 teachers were frequently observed providing instruction (not including worksheet completion)
about a
comprehension skill or
strategy (see Table 20.)
For
comprehension instruction, eight different instructional practices were observed and coded: doing a picture walk; asking for a prediction; asking a text - based question; asking a higher level, aesthetic response question; asking children to write in response to reading (including writing answers to questions
about what they had read); doing a story map; asking children to retell a story; and working on a
comprehension skill or
strategy.
Comprehension reading
strategies help students stay engaged and think
about what they are reading.
Learn -
Abouts teach a wide range of
comprehension strategies for nonfiction, including: Predicting, Determining importance, Making Inferences and Summarizing.
This empowers students to take charge of their own learning by understanding their progress, and provides you with the actionable data you need to make timely, informed decisions
about your students»
comprehension and your own instructional
strategies.
Cognitive
strategies also are used to apply
comprehension skills to the material and to write
about the material read.
Reading
comprehension episodes provide students with the skills and
strategies necessary to understand and answer questions
about what they read.
learn and practice
strategies for answering questions
about text, including literal
comprehension questions, inferential
comprehension questions, questions
about main idea, and vocabulary questions requiring the student to derive the meaning of a word or phrase from context
Describes the 5 essential components of reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text
comprehension); summarizes what researchers know
about each skill; implications for instruction; proven
strategies for teaching reading.
Teachers select books that lend themselves to practicing the
comprehension strategy of the week rather than systematically teaching kids
about topics like the digestive system or the American Revolution.
For the 10 % sample of observations described above, the second expert reviewer agreed with the first
about the codes which made up the variables used in the data analyses: 100 % whole - group, 99 % small - group, 95 % vocabulary instruction, 91 % phonemic awareness instruction, 91 % phonics instruction, 94 % coaching in word - level
strategies, 96 % asking lower - level questions, 82 % asking higher - level questions, 100 %
comprehension skill instruction, 88 %
comprehension strategies instruction, 94 % teacher - directed stance, 92 % student - support stance, 95 % active responding, and 97 % passive responding.
The vast majority of American elementary schools — and especially those serving the neediest students — spend hours every week teaching reading
comprehension skills and
strategies instead of trying to impart any substantive information
about subjects like history and science.
Describes the five essential components of reading instruction: 1) phonemic awareness, 2) phonics, 3) fluency, 4) vocabulary, and 5) text
comprehension; summarizes what researchers know
about each skill; implications for instruction; proven
strategies for teaching reading.
The intervention attended to both the language and literacy needs of English language learners; for example, the student booklets included activities and
strategies to strengthen students» reading and writing by using «specific
comprehension questions
about inquiry activities,
strategies to enhance
comprehension of science information in expository text at the end of each lesson, and [focus on] various language functions (e.g., describing, explaining, reporting, drawing conclusions «in the context of science inquiry»)» (Lee et al., 2008b, p. 38).
When necessary, teachers prompt students to use
comprehension strategies such as rereading a sentence from the beginning, summarizing what has happened so far, predicting what the sentence might say, identifying and thinking
about word parts, and looking for cognates (sister words across languages).
Reading
comprehension skills and
strategies help students stay engaged and think
about what they are reading.
Reading
comprehension strategies help students stay engaged and think
about what they are reading.
(1997) E652: Current Research in Post-School Transition Planning (2003) E586: Curriculum Access and Universal Design for Learning (1999) E626: Developing Social Competence for All Students (2002) E650: Diagnosing Communication Disorders in Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students (2003) E608: Five Homework
Strategies for Teaching Students with Disabilities (2001) E654: Five
Strategies to Limit the Burdens of Paperwork (2003) E571: Functional Behavior Assessment and Behavior Intervention Plans (1998) E628: Helping Students with Disabilities Participate in Standards - Based Mathematics Curriculum (2002) E625: Helping Students with Disabilities Succeed in State and District Writing Assessments (2002) E597: Improving Post-School Outcomes for Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (2000) E564: Including Students with Disabilities in Large - Scale Testing: Emerging Practices (1998) E568: Integrating Assistive Technology Into the Standard Curriculum (1998) E577: Learning
Strategies (1999) E587: Paraeducators: Factors That Influence Their Performance, Development, and Supervision (1999) E735: Planning Accessible Conferences and Meetings (1994) E593: Planning Student - Directed Transitions to Adult Life (2000) E580: Positive Behavior Support and Functional Assessment (1999) E633: Promoting the Self - Determination of Students with Severe Disabilities (2002) E609: Public Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E616: Research on Full - Service Schools and Students with Disabilities (2001) E563: School - Wide Behavioral Management Systems (1998) E632: Self - Determination and the Education of Students with Disabilities (2002) E585: Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (1999) E599: Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading
Comprehension for Students with Learning Disabilities (2000) E638:
Strategy Instruction (2002) E579: Student Groupings for Reading Instruction (1999) E621: Students with Disabilities in Correctional Facilities (2001) E627: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention for Students with Disabilities: A Call to Educators (2002) E642: Supporting Paraeducators: A Summary of Current Practices (2003) E647: Teaching Decision Making to Students with Learning Disabilities by Promoting Self - Determination (2003) E590: Teaching Expressive Writing To Students with Learning Disabilities (1999) E605: The Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP)(2000) E592: The Link Between Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBAs) and Behavioral Intervention Plans (BIPs)(2000) E641: Universally Designed Instruction (2003) E639: Using Scaffolded Instruction to Optimize Learning (2002) E572: Violence and Aggression in Children and Youth (1998) E635: What Does a Principal Need to Know
About Inclusion?
For that reason, the first chapter of this book was particularly useful since its goal was to provide
strategies and techniques designed to help lawyers to effectively communicate with their clients
about setbacks in their case, while simultaneously softening the blow and increasing their clients»
comprehension and understanding.