For older readers who are still struggling to develop reading skills, phonics approaches may be less successful than other approaches such
as Reading comprehension strategies and Meta - cognition and self - regulation.
Focus: Developing a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with the solving of word problems and how to better support students in becoming more proficient in the application of the Mathematical Practices using research -
based reading comprehension strategies.
While this means having to know a lot of information about a lot of different topics, it also means that elementary level teachers are more likely to easily employ
reading comprehension strategies across all areas.
Effect of
multi-part reading comprehension strategy was significant, but only in the content - oriented environment (Science IDEAS), not in traditional reading / language arts (narrative) environment (i.e., significant interaction)
Think Aloud A think aloud is an interactive process in which the teacher shares her internal cognitive thinking process aloud as a way to support and scaffold
various reading comprehension strategies such as summarizing, retelling, asking questions and making connections (e.g. text - to - self, text - to - text, text - to - world).
But most elementary schools — especially those serving poor kids — have instead devoted hours each day to teaching kids
reading comprehension strategies like «finding the main idea» and «making inferences,» and then having students practice the strategies on simple books, often of their own choosing.
However, when teachers
modeled reading comprehension strategies commonly used in each subject area, ELLs and other low - level readers learned to delve more deeply into a variety of texts to analyze, understand, and master the content.
Too many curricular interventions for literacy are focused on specific presumed deficits — achieving phonological awareness in kindergarten, distinguishing digraphs in second grade, deciphering multisyllabic words in fourth grade,
applying reading comprehension strategies in sixth grade, and practicing close reading in tenth grade.
Apex Learning, for example, recognizes the woven interplay of words, symbols, and numbers and has developed Tutorials that incorporate
active reading comprehension strategies and sophisticated vocabulary development instruction.
I speak nationally and offer professional development in the areas
of reading comprehension strategy instruction, the new literacies of the Internet, and effective practices for technology integration and professional development.
Solving Word Problems Workshop — Part 1: Focus: Developing a deeper understanding of the challenges associated with the solving of word problems and how to better support students in becoming more proficient in the application of the Mathematical Practices using research -
based reading comprehension strategies.