Responsive Readers

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Responsive Readers

• Jen Boysko
• Krystle Herrin
• Rachel Tyson
• UNCC Reading M.Ed graduate students

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What does research say about comprehension?

• Dependent readers fail to see reading as an
  active process.
• More critical for dependent readers to talk about
  the text during the reading than after it. 
• Teachers must pull the invisible process of
  comprehension out to the visible level.  
•                                                 
     (Beers, 2003)

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Think Aloud

• Provides struggling readers with a structure to
  teach them how to dialogue with the text
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•  Allows for interaction with the text  self
  monitoring of understanding
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• As students are using this strategy they are
  predicting, visualizing, making comparisons,
  repairing comprehension problems, commenting
  connecting,  questioning 
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Say Something

•  Interrupts a student's reading giving them a
  chance to think about what they are reading
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•   Allows for interaction and responses with peers
  during text reading  
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•  Students are able to change roles and practice
  thinking aloud or responding to partners comments
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•  Helps students make comments, predictions,
  connections and clarify understanding of text
  while reading

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ABC charts

• Variety of uses- vocabulary, compare/contrast,
  main ideas for chapters/novels
• Allows for interactive reading and note taking
• Students record VERY brief notes under the
  corresponding letter.

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Probable Passage

• reinforce knowledge and understanding by
  using key concepts, predictions, and writing
• apply knowledge of story structures, as well as
  inferencing abilities, to predict the content of
  the selections
• collaborative approach allows opportunity for
  students to engage in listening, speaking,
  reading, and writing
• allows the teacher to emphasize vocabulary,
  comprehension, and writing within a single lesson

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Additional During Reading Strategies

• Double Entry Journals
• Logographic Cues
• Bookmarks
• Syntax Surgery
• Signal Words
• Somebody Wanted to But So
• Talking Drawings

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Websites for Comprehension

• www.adlit.org/strategy_library
• http//www.teachervision.fen.com/
• www.readwritethink.org
• http//www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/teachers/studentsucce
  ss/think.html

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Contact Information

• Jen Boysko
•     jennifer.boysko_at_cms.k12.nc.us
• Krystle Herrin krystle.herrin_at_stanlycountyschools.
  org
• Rachel Tyson
•     rtyson3_at_uncc.edu
• Dr. Adriana Medina
•     amedina1_at_uncc.edu