Week 3 Assignment

1. Reading
Comprehension
By: Macy Fagler

2. What is Comprehension?
• The ability to
read text,
process it, and
understand its
meaning.
Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B., Jr. (2016).

3. Comprehension Strategies vs. Instructional
Strategies?
• Comprehension strategies are strategies that students
use in their heads to help assist them in thinking about
what they are reading.
• Instructional strategies are ways in which teachers create the
conditions and contexts that helps support a student’s reading
comprehension.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

4. Comprehension Strategies Used By
Learners

5. Graphic and Semantic Organizers
• Help students read and understand texts.
• Help students focus on story structure as they read.
• Provide students with tools they can use to examine and
show relationships in a text.
• Help students write well organized summaries of a text.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

6. Examples of Graphic and Semantic
Organizers
• Story Map
– Used to chart the story structure
of a text.
• Cause and Effect
– Used to illustrate the cause and
effect of events that occur in a
text.
• Venn Diagrams
– Used to compare and contrast
two things.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

7. Answering Questions
• Give students a purpose for
reading.
• Focus students’ attention on what
they are supposed to learn.
• Help students to think actively as
they read.
• Encourage students to monitor
their comprehension.
• Help students to review content
and relate what they learned to
what they already know.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

8. Examples of Answering Questions
Strategies
• “Think and Share”
– Based on the basic recall of facts that can be found directly in the text.
• “Author and You”
– Require students to use their prior knowledge with what they have learned
from the text.
– Answers are found in more than one place in the text, so students have to
think and search through the passage.
• “On Your Own”
– Answers are based on what students already know and their own personal
experiences.
• “Right There”
– Found right in the text by locating one word or sentence.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

9. Monitoring Comprehension
• Students are aware of
what they do
understand.
• Students can identify
what they do not
understand or know.
• Allow students to use
appropriate strategies
to resolve problems in
comprehension.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

10. Instructional Strategies Used By
Teachers

11. Guided Practice
• The teacher guides and assists
students as they read.
• Allows teachers the opportunity
to listen to students read at their
instructional level of learning.
• Practice is done in small groups.
• Teacher can prompt students to
integrate the reading processes.
• Students are engaged in
conversation throughout the
text.
• Goal is to help students use
strategies and apply them
independently.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

12. Modeling
• High-level of student-teacher
interaction.
• Teacher describes the skill or
strategy explicitly.
• Teacher provides students
with a clear example of a skill
or strategy.
• The teacher breaks the skill
down into learnable parts.
• The teacher keeps students
engaged in learning by
showing enthusiasm, keeping
a steady pace, asking good
questions, and checking for
student understanding.
Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).

13. How Do Cognitive and Affective
Aspects Inform Instruction?
• Help to identify the developmental stages of receptive and
expressive language learning
• Help to provide scaffolding ideas for teachers to help students move
to the next level
• Help to determine next steps for instruction
• Help to a developmental approach to facilitate literacy
development
• Informal and formal assessments help determine areas of strengths
and weaknesses
• Help educators to understand the learner as a unique individual
• Help to distinguish ideas, issues, and problems that matter to the
specific student
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14. Schema Building Activity
• I chose to examine the schema building activity with Patricia Pollaco. “This lesson uses her
stories, Chicken Sunday and Rechenka's Eggs to teach students new words while
deepening their comprehension, encouraging text-to-self and text-to-text connections, and
helping them study characters” (ICLA/NTE, 2015).
• Comprehension strategies used in this lesson:
– Modeling
– Guided Practice
– Activation of students’ prior knowledge
– Related student experience to content
– Graphic Organizers
• “The WebQuest activity is designed to incorporate technology into reading activities and
helps students deepen their comprehension of the stories and apply their knowledge of the
vocabulary to create their own stories about the author” (ICLA/NTE, 2015).
International Reading Association (IRA) and National Council of Teachers of English.

15. Comprehension Strategies My
Students Use
• Partner Reading
• Summarizing
• Asking/Answering
Questions
• Graphic Organizers
– Venn Diagrams
– Story Maps

16. Instructional Strategies I Use In My
Classroom
• Read-Aloud/Think-Aloud
• Small Group Guided
Reading Groups
• Think-Pair-Share
• Modeling
• Text-Dependent Questions
• High-level questioning

17. Resources
• International Reading Association (IRA) and National Council of
Teachers of English. (2014a).ReadWriteThink. Retrieved
from http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?grade=13&resourc
e_type=6&learning_objective=8
• Reutzel, D. R., & Cooter, R. B., Jr. (2016). Strategies for reading
assessment and instruction in an era of common core standards:
Helping every child succeed (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.
• Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. (2015).
Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-
strategies-teach-students-text-comprehension