Explicit Comprehension Instruction in an Automated Reading Tutor that Listens: Year 1 Jack Mostow, Albert Corbett, Joseph Valeri, and Juliet Bey (Project LISTEN, Carnegie Mellon University); Nell K. Duke (Michigan State University); Christina

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Explicit Comprehension Instruction in an
Automated Reading Tutor that Listens Year 1
Jack Mostow, Albert Corbett, Joseph Valeri, and
Juliet Bey (Project LISTEN, Carnegie Mellon
University) Nell K. Duke (Michigan State
University) Christina Trotochaud (Grand Ledge
Public Schools)
4. User-test scripts on Reading Tutors in school
i. Set purpose This text tells what the five
senses are and how you use them. After you
finish reading, I will ask you to tell me about
what you read, and I will record what you say. I
will help you practice giving a summary while you
read.
ii. Describe the strategy This text starts with
a summary of what you will learn. A summary tells
the main point or points of a text. Good readers
make summaries as they read. See how well you can
summarize in this text, when the Reading Tutor
asks you.
5. Transcribe recorded student responses
6. Annotate responses what should the Tutor say
in reply (and why)? Say nothing. (This
question is a "what do you think" question, so
any reasonable answer is acceptable.) Think
about the senses that we already talked about in
this texttry again. (Apples is not a
sense.) Great! You learned about many of the
senses. Can you think about what we do with our
ears? What do we do with our mouth? (Only
mentioned 3/5 senses.) We did learn about the 5
senses! Can you think about what any of the
senses are? (The student did not specifically
mention any of the senses.)
iii. Model the strategy I am going to take a
moment to summarize. So far the text has told us
about two senses seeing and hearing. We use our
eyes to see and our ears to hear.
Touching Seeing Use our nose to smell Uh,
apples?
iv. Scaffold the strategy Now we can add
something to the summary I did earlier. Think
about the two senses you read about after seeing
and hearing. What do you think the fifth sense
is? Answer out loud and click Go.
Sigh, smell touch, see, tuh, uh smell They tell
us about five senses which we use, in our daily
life