Anchor Charts to Support Comprehension Strategies

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Anchor Charts to Support Comprehension Strategies

• By Mary Malloy
• Katrina Purdue

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Professional Development

• IRT training from Cindy and Therese
• Embedded Midvale PD
• Year 1- Primary Literacy Notebook
• Year 2- Comprehension Strategies with Debbie
  Miller
• Year 3- Comprehension revisited writing

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Resources

• Book Room Titles for Book Club

• Literacy Room Books

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Curriculum Maps
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Implementation

• Modeling
• (Anchor Charts)
• Shared Practice
• (Anchor Charts)
• Guided Practice
• (notebooks)
• Independent Practice
• (Book Club, notebooks)

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Monitoring Comprehension
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Connections
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Book Club

• Heterogeneous Small Groups
• Adult reads book aloud to group
• Each child is given a copy of the text
• Students reflect and use post-its to track their
  thinking
• Students initiate discussions
• Follow-up reflection in reading journals

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Book Club Introduction
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Book Club
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Book Club

• First Session

• Second Session

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Inferring
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Questioning
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Book Club
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Mental Imaging
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Mental Imaging Texts
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Book Club Revisited
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Determining Importance
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Determining Importance
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Determining Importance with Fables
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Book Club

• poetry

• magazines

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Synthesizing
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Synthesizing
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Synthesizing with Allen Say
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Synthesizing
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Summary of Book Club

• Evolved over the year
• Added to format (coding, one main idea)
• Changed genres (poetry and nonfiction)
• Developed oral language
• Students problem solved around group dynamics
• Volunteers and students became more comfortable
  with format

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Thanks to the 2nd graders who deepened our
thinking!