Strategic Reading for Adolescents Putting All the Pieces Together Martha Lamb Catawba County Schools August 2009
Mar 27, 2015
Strategic Reading for AdolescentsPutting All the Pieces Together
Martha Lamb
Catawba County Schools
August 2009
Agenda
9:00 - Introductions & announcements9:15 – 10:30 - Objectives
What Is Reading?Most Important Sentence (strategy)Montebation of TraxaleneFactors Contributing To Poor Rdg. Ability
10:30 – 10:40 - Break10:40 – 12:00 - Reading Strategies12:00 – 1:00 - Lunch1:00 – 2:30 - Break2:40 – 4:00 - Reading Strategies
Culminating Activity
Objectives
• You will understand and be able to describe the different subskills needed in order to read efficiently.
• You will be able to differentiate between reading instruction that takes place in the language arts class and reading support that is needed in content classes.
• You will understand why students need instructional support before, during, and after reading.
• You will know how to use activities to “scaffold” reading in your classroom so that your students will be more successful.
What Is Reading?
Activity
• On a sentence strip, write a one-sentence answer to the question, “What is reading?”
What subskills make up the act of reading?
• Word identification– Sound/symbol connections– “sight” words
• Making meaning of text– Knowledge of words and word parts– Sentence and paragraph comprehension– Interacting with the text
• Interpreting and analyzing text– Recognizing author’s purpose and point of view– Accepting or resisting author’s implied message
Word Identification
Srprsngly, mst pple cn rd ths txt.
Most people learn to read by applying the rules of phonics and/or by memorizing word shapes, but with practice, the rules become internalized and one reads at the level of automaticity.
Making Meaning of Text
Roadblocks:• Lack of word knowledge
– Unfamiliar words– Insufficient knowledge of word parts (prefixes,
suffixes, roots)– Words with multiple meanings
• Poor fluency• Failure to interact cognitively with the text• Resistance to reading (perpetuates cycle)• Reduced requirements/expectations by teachers
Interacting With Text
• English/Language Arts teachers and reading specialists teach metacognitive strategies:– Monitoring for meaning– Using prior knowledge– Questioning– Determining importance– Inferring– Using mental images– Summarizing– Predicting
Interacting With Text
• English/Language Arts teachers and all content area teachers use teaching strategies to support students in reading:– Before-reading strategies– During-reading strategies– After-reading strategies
• Why should content teachers use reading comprehension strategies?– Because comprehension strategies are thinking
strategies, and they result in better understanding and retention of course content
Before-Reading Strategies
Good readers use before-reading strategies:• Preview text• Activate prior knowledge • Make predictions
Reading comprehension depends upon making connections with schema.
To ensure optimal comprehension, teachers must use
before-reading strategies
Before-Reading Strategies
• Word Splash• Probable Passage (before- and after-reading)• Anticipation Guides (before- and after-reading)
During-Reading Strategies
Good readers use during-reading strategies: • Monitor their comprehension• Make connections• Determine importance • Make predictions• Ask questions
To ensure optimal comprehension, teachers must use during-reading strategies
During-Reading Strategies
• Reading Quads• Re-Reading• Predicting vs. Knowing (before, during, and after)
After-Reading Strategies
Good readers use after-reading strategies: • Summarize• Reflect• Analyze• Evaluate
To ensure optimal comprehension, teachers must use after-reading strategies
After-Reading Strategies
• Word Sort• Tea Party (before- and after-reading)• 3-2-1• Text Reformulation
Culminating Activity
• Word Splash: working in groups of four, discuss words & write predictions
• Read selection using “Reading Quads”
• Reformulate text: – Comic book– Letter– Interview– Story– Newspaper article
Useful Websites
• Greece School District in New York State has posted a number of reading strategies with details on how to use them on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/2uavq
Revisiting The Objectives
• You will understand and be able to describe the different subskills needed in order to read efficiently.
• You will be able to differentiate between reading instruction that takes place in the language arts class and reading support that is needed in content classes.
• You will understand why students need instructional support before, during, and after reading.
• You will know how to use activities to “scaffold” reading in your classroom so that your students will be more successful.
Ticket Out the Door
3-2-1 Summary
3 facts you want to remember about teaching to support reading
2 strategies you plan to use during the first month of school
1 question you still have about using reading strategies
Concluding Thoughts
Contact me for further work with using reading strategies:828-455-2812 (mobile phone)
Don’t forget to evaluate this workshop on SchoolLink; evaluation should be available to you tomorrow
Probable Passage
Arrange words into the following groups:
• Characters• Setting• Problems• Outcomes• Unknown Words
Next, write a “gist statement” and a list of things “to discover.”
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