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Title: Content Comprehension Gina Scroggins,Title I Reading Jackie Mania, School Support


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Content
ComprehensionGina Scroggins,Title I
ReadingJackie Mania, School Support
Mans mind stretched to a new ides never goes
back to its original dimensions. - Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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What Works in Schools Conference February 3-4,
2009
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Opening Activity
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Middle and High School Students
  • Learn to Read vs. Read to Learn

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Why Teach Reading Skills in the Content Area in
Middle and Secondary Grades ?
  • Reading becomes increasingly complex
  • Effective skills required
  • Understand content specific vocabulary
  • (vocabulary is key to comprehension)

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Benefits of Having Comprehension Tools
  • Connect prior knowledge to text
  • Predict
  • Question
  • Identify and summarize
  • Strategies when encountering difficult text

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Understanding the Reading Process
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Factors Affecting Reading and Comprehension
  • Students ability and attitudes
  • Classroom environment
  • Instruction that is research based
  • l

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Three Components of the Reading Process
  • Purpose
  • Text features and organizational features
  • Strategies

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Assigning the Reading Task
  • Approach to reading task
  • Determine text features/clarify vocabulary
  • Plan for reading assignment

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Most Effective Means of Learning
  • According to research we remember
  • ________ of what we read
  • ________ of what we hear
  • ________ of what we see
  • ________ of what we discuss
  • 30 70 10 20

Activity
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Comprehension Strategies Used by Independent
Readers
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Group Activity
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Content Comprehension
  • Practical Strategies for the
  • Classroom

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Roadblocks to Comprehension
  • Students Avoid Reading the Textbook
  • Students Cannot Read the Textbook
  • Students Stop Learning to Read, But Are
    Expected to Read to Learn
  • There Is not Enough Time to Teach it All
  • Too Much Reliance on Transmission of Knowledge

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Before Reading
  • Goals
  • Activate Prior Knowledge
  • Access Existing Prior Knowledge
  • Build Background Knowledge
  • Establish a Purpose for Reading
  • When am I ever going to use this???

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Discovery Circles (Content Pass)

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Preview the Text as a Group

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F.L.I.P
  • Flip through the text
  • Look at the visuals
  • Information gathered from text features
  • Predict for planning and purpose

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Anticipation Guides
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During Reading
  • Goals
  • Monitor reading and understanding
  • Understand the facts and be able to recall and
    use them
  • Ask questions about the reading
  • Eradicate unproductive reading behaviors

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Unproductive Behaviors
  • Skipping Over Words
  • Skipping Chunks of Text
  • Avoiding the Reading Altogether
  • Copying Classmates Work
  • Feeling Inadequate
  • Becoming Disruptive

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Think Alouds
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Graphic Organizers
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Close Reading of Graphics
  • .

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After Reading
  • Goals
  • Clarify Information and Deepen Understanding
  • Make Connections with Self, Others and the World
  • Apply, Synthesize and Evaluate Information
  • Provide Ways to Remember and Recall
  • Use Information in a New Way

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Graphic Organizers
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Connect and Apply
  • Connect to Personal Life
  • Connect to Other Texts
  • Connect to the Community

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Paraphrase
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Visualize
  • Draw Timelines and Sequences
  • Building Academic Vocabulary
  • Simulation
  • Reinact Historical Events
  • Dramatize Processes

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Teachers Responsibility
  • Model Strategies
  • Accountability
  • Review and Practice

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Things to Remember
  • Time It takes TIME to change beliefs and
    behavior patterns.
  • Variety Not all strategies work for all
    students
  • Emphasis The ultimate goal is not the product,
    it is the internalization of the process

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Admit/Exit Slips
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Book Talk Reading Strategies for the Content
Areas
Beers, Sue and Howell, Lou. (2003). Reading
Strategies for the Content Areas. Alexandria,
Virginia. Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development
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Book Talk MAX Teaching with Reading and
Writing
Forget Ph. D., Mark A.. (2004). MAX Teaching with
Reading and Writing. Victoria, BC, Canada.
Trafford Publishing.
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Book Talk Teaching Reading in Social Studies,
Science, and Math
Robb, Laura. (2003). Teaching Reading in Social
Studies, Science, and Math. New York Scholastic,
Inc.
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Allen, Janet. (2008). More Tools for Teaching
Content Literacy. Portland, ME. Stenhouse
Publishers.
Book Talk
More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
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Kristo, Janice V., Bamford, Rosemary A. (2004).
Nonfiction in Focus. New York Scholastic Inc.
Book Talk
Nonfiction in Focus
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Contact InformationJackie Mania, School
SupportJackie_Mania_at_sde.state.ok.usGina
Scroggins, Title I ReadingGina_Scroggins_at_sde.stat
e.ok.us
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