This document discusses how to teach reading comprehension in reading and writing workshops. It emphasizes teaching students to be readers who can answer questions about what they read, retell stories, make inferences, image what they read, monitor their understanding, and use context clues. The document stresses teaching readers, not just teaching books, and developing great readers of different genres like fiction, fantasy, non-fiction, history texts and science texts. It also discusses distinguishing between fiction and non-fiction.

1. TO UNDERSTAND Teaching Comprehension in the Reading and Writing Workshop

6. Reading Is…

9. Answer “ Our” Questions!

10. Retell

17. What kind of READERS do we want?

36. Inferring Imaging Questioning Monitoring Synthesizing Using Schema Det. Importance

37. Teach the READER Not the Book

46. Great Readers of Fiction …

48. Great Readers of Fantasy…

49. Great Readers of NonFiction…

50. Great Readers of Historical Information

51. Great Readers Of Scientific Text

54. Thinking about Fiction and NonFiction

55. “ Life” Story “ Book” Story (THEME) Fiction = Stories of Life

57. The Orange

58. BIG IDEA (Whole text) Main Idea ( Section Level)

59. M ain Idea vs . B ig Idea