Sunday, June 24, 2018

The Best Approach to Teach Comprehension


As a Reading Specialist, I don't believe there is a single best way to teach comprehension, rather several strategies to employ. Every student learns differently and has their own strengths and weaknesses. Focusing on what they do know has tremendous benefits. 


Within my training and teaching, I've created a handful of resources to help teachers, in all content areas, help readers become confident readers and therefore better at comprehension. 


Below are several ideas/approaches you may want to employ in 

the up coming school year.


Cueing and Prompting Strategies are an                                     Prompts and Sentence Frames offer 
excellent way to focus on and enhance                                       a 'frame' of the sentence to be  completed.
what the reader knows. More effectively                                    They are helpful when students are 'stuck'
reaches individual needs.                                                                        and to use key vocabulary at a level in
                                                                                                          which they may be at a higher level.
                                                                                  
FIND IT HERE                                                         FIND IT HERE
                             


Utilizing sentence frames helps students                             Summarizing teaches students to recognize 
of all proficiency levels incorporate higher                           what is most important in a text. It helps 
levels of language into their reading and writing.                   teach how to integrate the most important
FIND IT HERE                                                                   details and ideas in a meaningful way. 
                                                                                                 FIND IT HERE                                                                                                                                                          
                   
                

Activate Strategies are a variety of engaging                           Context clues are words, sentences, and even 
strategies that set students up within a                                     pictures or illustrations are in close proximity  
familiar context of what they currently know.                    better understand what they read and to 
FIND IT HERE                                                       a word and helps to explain its meaning. 
                                                                                             FIND IT HERE
                  


Inferring is the ability to understand                                     Rereading is a skill that helps develop and       when text all the information is not                                        maintain fluency, accuracy and  comprehension.          specifically written.                                                                                                                                               FIND IT HERE                                                   FIND IT HERE

Think Aloud is a teaching strategy that 

allows students to hear the thought 

process of a good reader.



                             

Strategies can be tailored to ANY 
topic, story, or area of study at any level. 

Excellent for Cross-Curricular!

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