Title: Content Comprehension Gina Scroggins,Title I Reading Jackie Mania, School Support
1Content
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.
2What Works in Schools Conference February 3-4,
2009
3Opening Activity
4Middle and High School Students
- Learn to Read vs. Read to Learn
5Why 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)
6Benefits of Having Comprehension Tools
- Connect prior knowledge to text
- Predict
- Question
- Identify and summarize
- Strategies when encountering difficult text
7Understanding the Reading Process
8Factors Affecting Reading and Comprehension
- Students ability and attitudes
- Classroom environment
- Instruction that is research based
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9Three Components of the Reading Process
- Purpose
- Text features and organizational features
- Strategies
10Assigning the Reading Task
- Approach to reading task
- Determine text features/clarify vocabulary
- Plan for reading assignment
11 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
12Comprehension Strategies Used by Independent
Readers
13Group Activity
14Content Comprehension
- Practical Strategies for the
- Classroom
15Roadblocks 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
16Before 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???
17Discovery Circles (Content Pass)
18Preview the Text as a Group
19F.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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20Anticipation Guides
21During 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
22Unproductive Behaviors
- Skipping Over Words
- Skipping Chunks of Text
- Avoiding the Reading Altogether
- Copying Classmates Work
- Feeling Inadequate
- Becoming Disruptive
23Think Alouds
24Graphic Organizers
25Close Reading of Graphics
26After 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
27Graphic Organizers
28Connect and Apply
- Connect to Personal Life
- Connect to Other Texts
- Connect to the Community
29Paraphrase
30Visualize
- Draw Timelines and Sequences
- Building Academic Vocabulary
- Simulation
- Reinact Historical Events
- Dramatize Processes
31Teachers Responsibility
- Model Strategies
- Accountability
- Review and Practice
32Things 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
33Admit/Exit Slips
34Book 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
35Book Talk MAX Teaching with Reading and
Writing
Forget Ph. D., Mark A.. (2004). MAX Teaching with
Reading and Writing. Victoria, BC, Canada.
Trafford Publishing.
36Book Talk Teaching Reading in Social Studies,
Science, and Math
Robb, Laura. (2003). Teaching Reading in Social
Studies, Science, and Math. New York Scholastic,
Inc.
37Allen, Janet. (2008). More Tools for Teaching
Content Literacy. Portland, ME. Stenhouse
Publishers.
Book Talk
More Tools for Teaching Content Literacy
38Kristo, Janice V., Bamford, Rosemary A. (2004).
Nonfiction in Focus. New York Scholastic Inc.
Book Talk
Nonfiction in Focus
39Contact InformationJackie Mania, School
SupportJackie_Mania_at_sde.state.ok.usGina
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