Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions DO NOW: Please take a sheet and complete the first two columns of the K-W-L chart If you would like this PowerPoint now, please email me and I will forward it to you before we begin. [email protected]
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Igniting Understanding through Reading Comprehension Strategies Instructions
DO NOW:Please take a sheet and complete the first two
columns of the K-W-L chart
If you would like this PowerPoint now, please email me and I will forward it to you before we begin.
INTERACTIVEReading is “an act of composition”“stimulate their own thinking”“Readers construct and maintain understanding by merging their thinking with the text. “ongoing inner conversation with the author… a dialogue of sorts”
(Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p.21)
A book “…is a printed circuit for your own life to flow through”.
“You’re imagining the words, the sounds of the words, and you are thinking of the various characters in terms of people you’ve known – not in terms of the writer’s experience, but your own”.
(E. L. Doctorow, in Plimpton, 1998, cited in Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 13)
Am I not already teaching reading comprehension?
AIMS of teaching reading comprehension strategies
Common problem with RC “instruction” in schoolsAssessing vs. Teaching
To get readers to:• think when they
read• develop an
awareness of their thinking
• use actively the knowledge they glean
“Comprehension strategies are a means to an end, not an end in themselves. Teaching strategies for strategies sake is simply not the point.”
(Harvey & Goudvis, 2007, p. 14, emphasis added)c
What are reading comprehension strategies?
Pearson, Dole, Duffy & Roehler (1992):
Searching for Connections (e.g. using schema - Dr Moira Sweetnam Evans)