It worked because the teachers systematically and explicitly
taught comprehension strategies as a focus of the curriculum.
CSI - Comprehension Strategies Instruction is a cutting - edge literacy resource for
teaching comprehension strategies and improving vocabulary, fluency, and oral language.
The reading support teachers
taught each comprehension strategy strategically and explicitly.
Before we can expect students to utilize reading strategies independently, we must
teach them comprehension strategies and model how they are to be applied.
Teacher support materials included (Teachers» Guide with support for
teaching comprehension strategies, guided reading lessons and graphic organizers for every title, and formative assessment rubrics)
Each unique lesson includes five pre-reading activities that build and
teach comprehension strategies.
Not exact matches
Sometimes, though, it is difficult to know just how to do that because
teaching methods change as research on basic reading and reading
comprehension identifies better
strategies to develop specially designed instruction for reading disorders such as dyslexia.
After reviewing more than 115,000 studies, the panel concludes that a combination of methods that includes
teaching phonics, reading aloud, and using
comprehension strategies is the best way to
teach reading.
Note that the standard does not explicate what or how specific
comprehension strategies should be
taught.
Reciprocal
teaching is a specific dialogue technique that may enhance reading
comprehension through «guided practice in applying simple, concrete
strategies to the task of text
comprehension» (Rosenshine & Meister, 1994).
To Addie Holsing, who
taught writing and
comprehension using «brain - based
strategies» and «multiple intelligences» before the terms had ever been invented.
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.»
«[Now] we break up the text, or we use a reciprocal
teaching strategy, [or] some
comprehension teaching strategies that we've learnt.
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.
«So, she has talked about reciprocal
teaching being part of every strand, from
comprehension, transition, through to
strategies.
3R Activity (Reading - Relating - Responding) Fatih Durmus, who
teaches at Ozel Kasmoglu Coskun Lisesi in Istanbul, Turkey, submitted this week's lesson, which provides a fun cooperative - group reading -
comprehension strategy.
When the knowledge demands of reading tests are unknown, it encourages teachers to devalue knowledge and prepare students by
teaching comprehension «skills and
strategies,» which are of limited value.
Here is a brand new full colour unit of work
teaching the brilliant super 6
comprehension strategies.
In this webinar, Dr. Sharon Vaughn, executive director of the Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk at The University of Texas at Austin, will discuss
strategies for
teaching students vocabulary and
comprehension within content area texts, and how iLit provides an effective way of implementing these
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.
The evidence is clear that both phonics and reading
comprehension are effective
strategies for
teaching literacy.
We would recommend that educators spend time
teaching reading
comprehension strategies and also make sure that students have enough time to practice and master those
strategies.
Her publication gives detailed suggestions of how to get started with Reading Workshop, and great literature to use in the classroom to
teach strategies for
comprehension of text.
This worksheet lists each reading
comprehension strategy and then notes the corresponding book page and
teaching point for that
strategy!
They
teach a range of techniques that enable pupils to comprehend the meaning of what is written, such as inferring the meaning from context, summarising or identifying key points, using graphic or semantic organisers, developing questioning
strategies, and monitoring their own
comprehension and identifying difficulties themselves.
http://ldx.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/30/1/80 HOW WE LEARN - ASK THE COGNITIVE SCIENTIST The Usefulness of Brief Instruction in Reading
Comprehension Strategies Author: Daniel T. Willingham American Educator (American Federation of Teachers), Winter 2006 - 07 Results from 481 studies on 16 different categories of strategies conclude that; «Teaching children strategies is definitely a good id
Strategies Author: Daniel T. Willingham American Educator (American Federation of Teachers), Winter 2006 - 07 Results from 481 studies on 16 different categories of
strategies conclude that; «Teaching children strategies is definitely a good id
strategies conclude that; «
Teaching children
strategies is definitely a good id
strategies is definitely a good idea.»
Research indicates that we build
comprehension through the
teaching of
comprehension strategies and environments that support an understanding of text.
This section is under construction, but, when completed, will show video demonstrations of how the Science IDEAS Reading
Comprehension Strategy is
taught in Science IDEAS.
Provides hundreds of ideas,
strategies, tips and resources for
teaching everything from grammar and spelling to word decoding and reading
comprehension.
Q: Who should
teach CSI -
Comprehension Strategies Instruction?
Steve and I use the lessons found in
Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor, Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller, and 7 Keys to Comprehension by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins for teaching reading comprehensio
Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor, Reading with Meaning by Debbie Miller, and 7 Keys to
Comprehension by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins for teaching reading comprehensio
Comprehension by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse Hutchins for
teaching reading
comprehensioncomprehension strategies.
Learn - Abouts
teach a wide range of
comprehension strategies for nonfiction, including: Predicting, Determining importance, Making Inferences and Summarizing.
Effective reading
comprehension teaches children the skills and
strategies used by expert readers.
Teachers and parents can help students improve their reading
comprehension skills by
teaching the
strategies that were recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000).
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.
An interesting article that presents a multiple -
strategy instructional approach (Transactional
Strategies Instruction) to
teaching comprehension.
Once teachers are planning and
teaching High Performance Learning - Focused Lessons effectively, in the Increasing the Rigor of Learning - Focused Lessons: Higher Order Thinking, Reading and Writing professional development they will gain the skills and knowledge to increase the complexity of learning as the lesson progresses, integrate higher order thinking
strategies and reading
comprehension strategies into their lessons to increase rigor and deepen student learning, and challenge students to critically analyze and interpret what they learn to develop new insights.
In his article, 7
Strategies to
Teach Text
Comprehension, C.R. Adler discusses why graphic organizers have a firm scientific basis for improving text comprehension: They help students focus on text structure, give students the tools they need to show textual relationships, and help them write well organiz
Comprehension, C.R. Adler discusses why graphic organizers have a firm scientific basis for improving text
comprehension: They help students focus on text structure, give students the tools they need to show textual relationships, and help them write well organiz
comprehension: They help students focus on text structure, give students the tools they need to show textual relationships, and help them write well organized summaries.
Disciplinary literacy is framed as «content area reading instruction, or a way of
teaching cognitive
strategies across various content area classrooms to promote
comprehension.»
Middle School Matters Field Guide Alignment Reading and Reading Interventions Reading Principle 4:
Teach students to use reading
comprehension strategies; Reading Principle 6: Guide students during text - related oral and written activities that support the interpretation, analysis, and summarization of text.
Principle 4:
Teach students to use reading
comprehension strategies while reading complex text.
Stephanie Harvey & Annie Goudvis,
Strategies That Work:
Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding, Stenhouse Publishers, Portland, ME, 2000.
In the UK, recent evaluations of programmes that have included a focus on
teaching reading
comprehension strategies have not found such an extensive impact, though there is evidence that children from disadvantaged backgrounds may benefit more.
Extensive evidence from eight meta - analyses has consistently demonstrated the impact of
teaching metacognitive
strategies for reading
comprehension.
My intervention consisted of me
teaching five reading
strategies that support students» reading
comprehension: «right there» questions, wondering questions, identifying and annotating key information, coding text, and identifying the reading purpose.
While
teaching the reading
comprehension strategies is primarily the responsibility of the English / Language Arts teacher, the
strategies are used in all content areas, simply because students have to read and understand information within all content areas.
VocabularySpellingCity's learning
strategy ensures students» retention of content
taught with games and activities that encourage students to think critically and enhance their
comprehension.
It then explains a
strategy for each text structure type that can be
taught to children to improve
comprehension in content area classes.
The Effect of Explicit
Teaching of Online Metacognitive
Strategies on EFL Learners» L2 Reading
Comprehension
The book summarizes the past two decades of brain research on the
teaching of reading and the most neuro - logical classroom
strategies for improving student fluency, vocabulary,
comprehension, and motivation.