This document discusses strategies for improving expository reading comprehension. It outlines four roles of literate learners: text user, code user, text analyzer, and meaning maker. It also discusses the Ontario curriculum expectations for reading at various grade levels and lists five elements that must be included in a teacher's reading program. Finally, it provides resources for guided reading, comprehension strategies, and designing guided reading questions based on selected cards.

1. 8P24: Week 6
2018
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2. Professional Learning Conversations
• Week 6: Professional Reading 20 minutes
– Roehling, J. (2017). Text structure strategies for
improving expository reading comprehension

3. Four Roles of the Literate Learner
• Texts are not
neutral
• Structure of
text
• Breaking the
“code” of text
• Construct &
communicate
meaning
Meaning
Maker
Code
User
Text
Analyzer
Text
User

4. Ontario Curriculum: Language
• Read carefully the Overall and Specific
Expectations for Reading as found in the
Reading strand at a variety of grade levels (4-
8). Each person at your table is to choose a
different grade level.
• How are the various grades similar or
different? Is there any change from grade to
grade?

5. Your classroom
• Based on the expectations for reading in the
Ontario Curriculum list at least 5 “musts” for
teachers to include in their reading program:
• Teachers must:
1. _____
2. _____
3. _____
4. _____
5. _____

6. Reading Engagement

7. Video

8. Check out these sites!
(links on Sakai Week 6)
• Teaching Kids News
• Forest of Reading
• 2Titles
• Storyline
• Brain Space Magazine (you will need to
download app Blippar on your device)
• Epic!

9. Gradual Release of Responsibility
Modelled Shared Guided Independent
READING and WRITING
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching Teaching
Learning
Learning &
Learning Practising Practising
& & &
Learning Practising Performing Performing
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12. Instructional Formats
• Whole Group:
– Modelled Reading
– Shared Reading
• Small Group:
– Guided Reading
• Individual:
– Independent Reading

15. Guided Reading Prompts
• Scholastic Guided Reading Prompts for
Comprehension.
• https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-
posts/genia-connell/guided-reading-prompts-
and-questions-improve-comprehension/

16. Guided Reading Webcast
http://thelearningexchange.ca/videos/guided-
practice-reading-informational-text/

17. Task
• Select one Guided Reading card from Nelson
Literacy (a copy for each person at your table)
• Determine one comprehension strategy that
could be taught or reinforced through this
card
• Design a series of questions you would ask a
guided reading group based specifically on the
card you have selected

18. Comprehension Strategies
• Activating prior knowledge
• Making connections: text-to-self; text-to-text;
text-to-world
• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Drawing inferences
• Evaluating

19. Next Week
• Exploring Resources: Social Media
– Focus is on the Writing Strand