Comprehension Connections Linked to: Strategies That Work.

Comprehension ConnectionsLinked to: Strategies That Work

Best Way to Teach Comprehension Strategies

Teacher ModelingGuided PracticeIndependent PracticeApplication of the Strategy in

Real Reading Situations

Best Practice Instruction: Showing Kids How

Reading aloudThinking aloud and coding the textLifting textReasoning through the textProviding anchor experiencesRereading for deeper meaning

Strategies That Work Making Connections Visualizing Determining Importance Drawing Inferences Asking Questions Synthesizing Information

Tanny McGregor “This is just what I want to do for children:

Provide concrete instruction that jump-starts them into the realm of strategic thinking. With each lesson I construct, I want to empower students with tools of language, building their confidence as they bridge the known to the new. For many of them it will be a new deal, where thinking replaces the right answer, where meaning is created and not simply received.”

Metacognition: It’s the thought that counts Real Reading Salad

Warriors of God Fake out when I read…. Fake reading I Read It, but I Don’t Get It, Chris Tovani 2001

Don’t Laugh at Me (use for salad) Think and Text bowls

Venn Diagram (book and head)

The Thought Bubble Buzzy the Bumblebee, Denise Brennan-Nelson

Animals Asleep, Sneed Collard

What Good Readers Do … Track their own thinking Notice when they lose focus Stop and go back Reread to understand Read ahead to find meaning Identify what is causing the confusion Know that every question is important Think critically and are able to disagree Match the difficulty with the strategy that

will best solve it

Drawing Inferences Every inference must be directly

supported by evidence

The Garbage Story ….

Formula charts for inference

Asking Questions Children believe that asking questions is

for ‘dummies’, and they know that far too many adults don’t appreciate inquisitive minds. Even worse, excessive testing has taught students to spend their energies in pursuit of the one right answer, never mind any questions that the reader might have.

“Children enter school as question marks ? and come out as periods .”

Questioning The Rock….special to me

Questioning Thinking Stems Poster The author strings you along and your

questions fuel the drive to keep reading The Lemonade Crime Books by David Wiesner (wordless)

Free Fall Tuesday Sector 7

Quotes about Questioning “One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything.”

Lichtenberg, scientist

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Einstein

“The answers aren’t important really…What’s important is –know all the questions.”Snyder, author

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”Thurber, humorist

“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.”African proverb

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” Voltaire, philosopher

“All men by nature desire to know.” Aristotle, philosopher

“The desire to know is natural to good men.” DaVinci, artist

Determining Importance Children need to know how to single out and

process what is meaningful and how to recognize and set aside distractions in text and in daily life.

CNN (text and images in 5 minutes) Graphs Maps Titles Subheadings Bulleted information Dow, NASDAQ, S&P Pictures within pictures Scrolling weather and news Three changes of anchors and sets Time in three zones Correspondents’ names and credits

Determining Importance Determining Importance chart My Purse Straining the Spaghetti A Circle of Friends by Giora Carmi

That’s Wild books in Bookrooms “In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in

all the information.” D’Angelo, author

“The truth is more important than the facts.” Frank Lloyd Wright

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Einstein

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” Carnegie

Synthesizing The Nesting Dolls

All dolls lined up in ascending order The bigger I get, the bigger my thinking

gets. I grow and change and so does my thinking. It reminds me of what happens in cartoons,

when a snowball rolls down a hill. When I read new information, I just add it to

stuff I already know. My thinking used to be one thing, but now it

is something else.

Put the nesting dolls together – Largest stands alone Big ideas are made up of little ideas. You can’t always tell how much thinking

happened to get to a big idea. We hold all of our thinking inside of us. Our best thinking starts out with something

small.

The Littlest Matryoshka, Corrine Demas Bliss

Spiral (Spiral slides, notebook, lollipops, cinnamon rolls)

The Metacognition

Umbrella