Title: Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers Professional Development Module
1Effective Instruction for Adolescent
Struggling Readers Professional Development
Module
- Christy S. Murray, Jade Wexler, Sharon Vaughn,
- Greg Roberts, Kathryn Klingler Tackett
- The University of Texas at Austin
- Marcia Kosanovich
- Florida State University
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3Adolescent Literacy Research and Practice
- One in three fourth-graders is reading below a
basic level. - Only 31 percent of eighth-graders are proficient
readers.
(Lee, Grigg, Donahue, 2007)
4Essential Components of Reading Elementary Level
vs. Secondary Level
5Objectives
- Enhance your understanding of selected
research-based instructional practices associated
with positive effects for adolescent struggling
readers. - Learn how to implement these research-based
practices. - NOTE Assessment and its influence on
instruction will not be a focus of this
presentation.
6Reading Interventions for Adolescent Struggling
Readers A Meta-analysis With Implications for
Practice
- Overall, how effective are the reading
interventions for adolescent struggling readers
that have been examined in research studies? - What is the specific impact of these reading
interventions on measures of reading
comprehension? - What is the specific impact of these reading
interventions on students with learning
disabilities? - Available for download www.centeroninstruction.or
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7Scientific Rigor of Highlighted Studies
- All highlighted studies usedrandom assignment
- and
- standardized measures.
8General Findings of the Meta-Analysis
- Various levels of intervention effectiveness
- Students with LD vs. students without LD
- Researcher-implemented vs. teacher-implemented
and - Students at the middle school level vs. students
at the high school level. -
9Highlighted Studies Caveat
- The instructional practices used in the studies
we selected represent some of the practices
associated with improved outcomes for students in
grades 412. - The scope of this presentation does not allow us
to present all studies and referenced practices
from the meta-analysis.
10Essential Components of Reading for Adolescents
- Word Study
- Fluency
- Vocabulary
- Comprehension
- Motivation
11What is Word Study?
- What do I do when my students with reading
disabilities and difficulties cannot read
grade-level words accurately?
12Word StudyPractices that improve word-level
reading
- Research indicates that
- Older students in need can benefit from word
study instruction (Edmonds et al., in press
Scammacca et al., 2007).
13COI Meta-analysis
- IMPLICATION
- For older students struggling at the word level,
specific word study intervention is associated
with improved reading outcomes.
- FINDING
- Interventions focused on word study had a
moderate overall effect.
14Word Study
(Bhattacharya Ehri, 2004 Nagy, Berninger,
Abbott, 2006 Boardman et al., 2008)
15Reasons for Word Study Difficulties
- Students might not have been effectively taught
how to decode in the earlier grades. - Students might not have been given adequate
opportunities for practice. - Students may struggle to understand letter-sound
correspondences or the rules of the English
language.
16Strategies for Teaching Word Study
- Following are examples of two types of word study
practices that can be used with older readers.
17Word Study Instructional Practice 1
- Instruction in orthographic processing, or the
ability to recognize letter patterns in words and
their corresponding sound units.
Instructional focus Various advanced word study
components such as syllable types and blending
multisyllabic words.
18Instructional Practice 1 Example
Mumble mum ble
Locate lo cate
Invalid in val id
19Instructional Practice 1 How do I Teach it?
- Teach students to identify and break words into
syllable types. - Teach students when and how to read multisyllabic
words by blending the parts. - Teach students to recognize irregular words that
do not follow predictable patterns. - Teach students to apply these practices to
academic words (e.g., tangent, democracy,
precision).
20Syllable Types and Examples
- Closed (e.g., cat) short vowel
- Open (e.g., no) long vowel
- Vowel-consonant-e (e.g., like) e makes vowel
long - Consonant-le (e.g., mumble)
- R-controlled (e.g., ar, or, er, ir, ur)
- Double vowel (e.g., team)
21Word Study Instructional Practice 2
- Expose students to information and strategies
that will help students gain access to the
meaning of words and make the connection between
decoding and comprehension.
Instructional focus Prefixes, suffixes,
inflectional endings, root words, and base
words.
22Instructional Practice 2 Example
Transplanted trans (across) plant (base
word) ed (happened in the past)
Useless use (base word) less (without not)
Careful care (base word) ful (full of)
23Instructional Practice 2 How Do I Teach It?
- Teach students the meanings of common prefixes,
suffixes, inflectional endings, and roots. - Provide instruction in how and when to use
structural analysis to decode unknown words.
24Highlighted StudyBhattacharya Ehri (2004)
Participants 60 struggling readers
(non-LD), grades 6 through 9
Received one of two interventions provided by a
researcher for four sessions totaling 110
minutes.
Received current school instruction. (Comparison
Group) n 20
Syllable Chunking n 20
Whole Word Reading n 20
25Syllable Chunking Intervention
- Students were taught to
- Orally divide multisyllabic words into
syllables - State the number of syllables
- Match syllables to their spelling and
- Blend the syllables to say the whole word.
26Five Steps in Syllable Chunking Intervention
Students read the word aloud. If incorrect, they
were told the word and repeated it.
Students explained the words meaning. If
incorrect, they were provided corrective feedback.
Students orally divided the words pronunciation
into its syllables or beats by raising a finger
as each beat was pronounced and then stated the
number of beats. If incorrect, the experimenter
modeled the correct response. (e.g., fin ish
two beats)
27Five Steps in Syllable Chunking Intervention
(continued)
Students matched the pronounced form of each beat
to its spelling by exposing that part of the
spelling as it was pronounced, while covering
the other letters. (Different ways of dividing
words into syllables were accepted.) If
incorrect, the experimenter modeled and explained
the correct segmentation and students copied the
response.
Students blended the syllables to say the whole
word. If incorrect, they were told the word and
repeated it.
28Syllable Chunking InterventionLearning Trials
Read and analyzed 25 words on each of the 4 days.
- Words were presented on index cards one at a time
over four learning trials in random orders. - Trial 1 Perform all five steps.
- Trials 24 Perform all steps except step 2.
29Whole Word Reading Intervention
- Students practiced reading multisyllabic words
with no applied strategy.
30Three Steps in Whole Word Reading Intervention
Students read the word aloud. If incorrect, they
were told the word and repeated it.
Students explained the words meaning. If
incorrect, they were told the meaning.
Students read the word again by looking at the
print. If incorrect, they were told the word and
repeated it.
31Whole Word Reading InterventionLearning Trials
Read and analyzed 25 words on each of the 4 days.
32Highlighted StudyBhattacharya Ehri (2004)
Participants 60 struggling readers
(non-LD), grades 6 through 9
Received one of two interventions provided by a
researcher for four sessions totaling 110
minutes.
Received current school instruction. (Comparison
Group) n 20
Whole Word Reading n 20
Syllable Chunking n 20
33Current School Practice(Comparison Condition)
- Students received the schools
- typical reading instruction.
34Which Strategy do You Think was Most Effective?
Why?
- Study Findings
- Syllable training enhanced readers decoding
ability on transfer tasks. - Syllable training enhanced readers ability to
retain spellings of words in memory. - Whole word training was not found to help
struggling readers on any of the decoding or
spelling transfer tasks.
35Implications for the Classroom
There is value in teaching adolescent
struggling readers to read multisyllabic words
by matching syllables to pronunciations.
Instruction in word study for the weakest
readers is needed as well as comprehension
strategy instruction.
Authors note that the intervention could be
enhanced by also teaching students information
about root words and affixes, syllable types,
etc.
36Participant Activity
- You are teaching a sixth-grade reading class,
- and several of your students are having
- difficulty reading words.
- You decide to try a syllable chunking
- strategy with these students.
37Syllable Chunking Intervention
38Syllable Chunking Strategy
Instruction
Dictionary
Compensate
Federal
39Conclusions About Word Study Instruction
- For adolescent readers who struggle at the word
level, instruction in word study skills can
improve word identification skills. - There are a variety of instructional methods for
this purpose, but most involve teaching students
to decode words by recognizing syllables types or
by analyzing parts of words.
40What is Fluency?
- What do I do when my students with reading
disabilities and difficulties cannot read words
with automaticity?
41Fluency The ability to read text with speed,
accuracy, and prosody (expression)
- Research indicates that
- Word study and comprehension are related to
fluency (Shinn Good, 1992). - Fluency does not cause comprehension, but is
one necessary component of successful reading
(Rasinski et al., 2005).
42COI Meta-analysis
- FINDING
- More research on fluency is needed with older
students.
- IMPLICATION
- Fluency practices associated with improved
outcomes with younger students may apply to older
students struggling with fluency.
43Fluency
(Boardman et al., 2008)
44Reasons for Fluency Difficulties
- Students are focusing too much cognitive effort
on decoding the text. - Students are not cognizant of punctuations role
in reading. - Students have a weak sight word vocabulary.
- Students have had limited exposure, instruction,
and practice with reading text fluently or at
all. - Students are unfamiliar with the meaning of words
in text.
45Fluency Differing Instructional Needs
- Adolescents whose oral reading rate on
grade-level text is - Below 70 wcpm need more practice with word
recognition in addition to fluency practice - Between 70 and 120 wcpm may benefit from regular
fluency instruction and - Greater than 120 wcpm may benefit more from
increased vocabulary and comprehension
instruction rather than increased fluency
instruction.
Ranges are approximations.
46What areRepeated Reading and Wide Reading?
- Wide Reading
- Reading many different types of text
- Repeated Reading
-
- Reading and listening to the same passage several
times
47Rationale for Repeated Reading at the Secondary
Level
- Repeated reading may be appropriate when
providing students with practice on a targeted
list of words. - Students will have multiple exposures to words
that may build their sight vocabulary and
automaticity. - Repeated reading interventions have been shown to
have positive outcomes for students with reading
difficulties in the younger grades (Chard,
Vaughn, Tyler, 2002). Therefore, repeated
reading interventions may have a similar effect
for students in the secondary grades at an early
reading level. (Please note that more research in
this area is needed).
48Challenges Associated With Repeated Reading
- Repeated Reading
- Increases in speed generally fail to transfer to
other texts unless there is word overlap
(Rashotte Torgesen, 1985). - May not be more effective than wide reading for
increasing reading speed (Homan, Klesius, Hite,
1993). - Limits students exposure to content, vocabulary,
and different text types.
49Rationale for Wide Reading at the Secondary Level
- Wide Reading
- Students are exposed to a variety of text
structures and vocabulary (which coincides with
the expectations of reading a wide variety of
text in the upper grades). - Students are exposed to more content (when
compared to repeated reading), which may increase
word/background knowledge. Background knowledge
can have a positive impact on comprehension
(Hansen Pearson, 1983). - There is less likelihood that students will see
the same words over and over again across a
variety of texts.
50Wide Reading vs. Repeated ReadingWhich is More
Effective?
- More research is needed in the area of fluency
- instruction for older students.
- Recommendation
- Use a combination of repeated reading and wide
reading. - Repeated reading provides opportunities for
students to improve and automate their sight
vocabulary. - Wide reading exposes students to new and
different content, vocabulary, and text types.
51Repeated Reading Considerations for Use
- Combine with word learning.
- Select passages that include targeted
vocabulary and/or passages at the students
independent level. - Monitor progress and provide feedback to
students. - Support reading with modeling and feedback from
teacher or peers. - Involve students in progress monitoring of
fluency goals. - As students improve, increase passage difficulty.
52Wide Reading Considerations for Use
- Select passages at the students independent or
instructional reading level. - Practice fluency with successive passages but do
not reread the same passage repeatedly. - Monitor progress and provide frequent feedback.
- Support reading with modeling and feedback from
teacher or peers. - Involve students in progress monitoring of
fluency goals. - As students improve, increase passage difficulty.
53Fluency Interventions Alone Do Not Improve
Comprehension
- Fluency practice is most effective when combined
with instruction in decoding (for select
students) and/or comprehension instruction.
54Partner Reading
- Partner reading is a widely used strategy that
provides the opportunity to practice oral reading
with immediate and explicit feedback and
incorporates the opportunity to engage in
comprehension practice. Partner reading - May benefit both partners in fluency development
- Engages students in fluency monitoring practices
and - Improves self-monitoring practices during reading.
55Partner ReadingConsiderations for Use
- Use at least 3 days per week with students who
need practice developing their ability to read
fluently. - Should last no more than 1520 minutes per day or
every other day. Spend a majority of
instructional time on other components of
reading. - Pair partners based on data Place slightly
higher-level reader with lower-level reader.
(Having a model of good reading is essential.)
56Partner ReadingConsiderations for Use (continued)
- Use reading materials that are at the independent
or instructional level of the more struggling
reader. - Set individual and partner goals for reading
fluency. Have students graph their best results.
57Specific Skills to Teach
- What counts as an incorrect response.
- How to sit with partners and locate materials.
- How to time each other.
- How to underline incorrect words.
- How to use correction procedures.
- How to calculate words correct per minute.
- How to graph results.
58How Do I Implement Partner Reading?
Discuss fluency and its importance.
Model use of partner reading strategies.
Provide guided practice.
Provide independent practice with support.
59Teacher Responsibilities
- Prepare student folders with new passages (one
for each student to read and/or follow along with
their partner). - Observe students during partner reading to
monitor fidelity of procedures and accuracy of
error checking. - Check folders (accuracy, graphs).
- Move students to next level.
60Practice Who Needs Fluency Instruction?Example 1
- Anna is a ninth-grader reading 40 wcpm on
eighth-grade-level text. Her teacher has noticed
that she often has difficulty decoding words. She
did not pass the state test. Does Anna need
fluency instruction?
YES, but she also needs explicit instruction in
word study. She would also benefit from
instruction to boost her vocabulary knowledge
and overall verbal reasoning/comprehension
ability.
61Example 2
- Jose is a 10th-grader reading 111 wcpm on
8th-grade-level text and is more than 95 percent
accurate. He did not pass the state test. What
does this tell us about Jose? Does he need
fluency instruction?
Jose is fairly fluent. He may need some fluency
instruction, but the fact that he is reading at
least 100 wcpm and is very accurate and still
not passing the state test tells us that Jose
may need instruction to boost comprehension,
verbal reasoning, and word knowledge in addition
to fluency instruction.
62Example 3
- Maria is reading 62 wcpm, but she is 96 percent
accurate. She did pass the state test, but she
had an extended time accommodation. Does Maria
need fluency instruction?
YES, Maria would most likely benefit from fluency
instruction. She might benefit from some
instruction in word study (especially in sight
words), but because she is so accurate, she
needs practice to increase the rate at which she
is reading. Although she is slow, with
accommodations she was able to demonstrate good
comprehension by passing the state test, which
is a positive indication of her comprehension
ability.
63Fluency InstructionConclusions
- The level of fluency required for secondary
struggling readers to read effectively and
understand text is not entirely clear. - For some students, fluency may help build a link
between decoding and comprehension, but fluency
does not cause comprehension. - Teachers should not spend a lot of time on
fluency instruction and should pair it with
instruction in decoding and/or vocabulary and
comprehension-enhancing practices.
64What is Vocabulary?
- What do I do when my students with reading
disabilities and difficulties do not know what a
majority of words in text mean and cannot use
word-meaning knowledge to enhance their
comprehension?
65Vocabulary is
The ability to understand and use a word
effectively and appropriately to foster
comprehension.
66Research on Vocabulary A Vocabulary Continuum
- Ive never heard of this word.
- Ive heard of this word, but Im not really sure
what it means. - I can recognize the word in context.
- I know the word well, including its various
forms, definitions, and uses.
(Dale, 1965)
67COI Meta-analysis
- FINDING
- Vocabulary interventions had the largest overall
effect size.
- IMPLICATIONS
- We know that directly teaching students the
meaning of words and how to use strategies to
uncover meanings of words can improve students
knowledge of the words taught. - What we dont know is whether or how vocabulary
instruction influences comprehension.
68COI Meta-Analysis
- FINDING
- Vocabulary interventions had the largest overall
effect size.
CAVEAT Standardized measures are not typically
used for measuring vocabulary knowledge and
use. Only researcher-developed measures were used
in the studies in the meta-analysis.
69Vocabulary
(Boardman et al., 2008)
70Reasons for Vocabulary Difficulties
- Lack of exposure to words (through reading,
speaking, and listening). - Lack of background knowledge related to words.
- Lack of direct vocabulary instruction.
71Teaching Vocabulary Words and Meaning
- Effectively teaching vocabulary words does not
mean asking students to memorize definitions, nor
does it mean teaching students unfriendly and
complex descriptions of words. - Effectively teaching vocabulary words assures
that students have opportunities to know what
words mean and how to use them in oral and
written language.
72Vocabulary InstructionUse All of These
Approaches That Match Instructional Needs
Word Consciousness
Additive Vocabulary
Generative Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
73Word Consciousness
- Word consciousness refers to an awareness that
words have multiple meanings in various contexts. - Example Assembly
- Use various instructional approaches.
74Additive Vocabulary Instruction
- Explicit instruction of specific words.
- Think about your goals for instruction when
selecting words. - Becks Three Tiers of Vocabulary.
75Three Tiers of Vocabulary Words
Tier 3 Words Rarely in text or are content
specific.
Tier 2 Words Appear frequently in many contexts.
Tier 1 Words Words students are likely to know.
(Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2002)
76Selecting Tier 2 Words
- Tier 2 words are
- Frequently encountered
- Crucial to understanding the main idea of text
- Not a part of students prior knowledge (not Tier
1 words) and - Unlikely to be learned independently through the
use of context or structural analysis.
- REMINDER Tier 2 words should be taught before
students read, and discussed and used frequently
afterward. - (Beck, McKeown, Kucan, 2002)
77Seventh-Grade Text
- Alexander Graham Bell is known as the inventor
of the telephone. His assistant was named Thomas
A. Watson. Together, Bell and Watson discovered
how sound, including speech, could be transmitted
through wires, and Bell received a patent for
such a device. In 1876, the telephone was
officially invented and the first telephone
company was founded on July 9, 1877.
78Ninth-Grade Textfrom Tuck Everlasting
- The road that led to Treegap had been trod out
long before by a herd of cows who were, to say
the least, relaxed. It wandered along in curves
and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant
tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down
again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and
then cut sidewise across the meadow.
(Babbitt, 1975)
79Which Words are Tier 2 Words?
- The road that led to Treegap had been trod out
long before by a herd of cows who were, to say
the least, relaxed. It wandered along in curves
and easy angles, swayed off and up in a pleasant
tangent to the top of a small hill, ambled down
again between fringes of bee-hung clover, and
then cut sidewise across the meadow.
(Babbitt, 1975)
80Additive Vocabulary InstructionSpecific
Strategies
- Teach multiple meanings of words and provide many
exposures to target words. - Provide engaging activities creating definitions
and nondefinitions, drawing pictures, and other
games. - Restructure and clarify tasks, as necessary.
81Generative Vocabulary Instruction
- Teaching words and related words
- Example Involuntary
- volunteer Choosing an action
- in Not
- ary Associated with
- Involuntary refers to something that happens
not by choice. - Example sentence
- Blinking your eyes regularly is an involuntary
action.
82Generative Vocabulary InstructionSpecific
Strategies
- Promote wide reading of texts.
- Promote opportunities to use target words.
- Connect new words to oral language or reading
materials. - Play word games and explore interesting uses of
words. - Use key word strategies that provide phonetic or
visual links to target words. - Show students how to break words into parts and
to use other strategies to identify meaning.
83Academic Vocabulary Instruction
- Concentrate on meanings of words within a
specific context. - Can be taken from content-area materials.
- May be Tier 3 words.
- Example Conductor.
84Academic Vocabulary InstructionSpecific
Strategies
- Use content-area materials to identify
vocabulary. - Obtain depth of understanding by providing
multiple exposures and various contexts. - Use assessment procedures to identify words that
students need to know. - Provide explicit instruction.
- Use computer technology.
85Conclusions About Vocabulary Instruction
- A good reader uses vocabulary to foster
comprehension. - Teachers can do the following to effectively
enhance students vocabulary - Promote word consciousness
- Use additive vocabulary instruction
- Use generative vocabulary instruction and
- Teach academic vocabulary.
- Teachers should carefully choose the type of
vocabulary instruction they provide by examining
the goals of their lessons.
86What is Reading Comprehension?
- What do I do when my students with reading
disabilities and difficulties do not use
strategies to enhance comprehension?
87Comprehension is
-
- The ability to construct meaning and learn from
text using a variety of applied strategies. - The ultimate purpose of reading.
- Research indicates that to teach students to
construct meaning from text, teachers need a firm
grasp of - Strategies that successful readers use when
creating meaning from text and - Effective instructional methods to teach such
successful strategies (National Reading Panel,
2000). -
88COI Meta-analysis
- FINDING
- The effect for reading comprehension strategy
interventions was medium to large.
- IMPLICATIONS
- Reading comprehension interventions can have a
significant impact on adolescent struggling
readers. - Providing comprehension strategy instruction
throughout the day provides opportunities for
multiple exposures and use of strategies with a
variety of texts.
89Comprehension
(Boardman et al., 2008. Adapted from Denton et
al., 2007 Pressley, 2006.)
90Reasons for Comprehension Difficulties
- Lack of appropriate prior knowledge.
- Inability to relate content to prior knowledge.
- Over-reliance on background knowledge.
- Inability to read text fluently.
- Difficulty with decoding words
- Inability to attend to meaning while reading.
- Inability to apply comprehension strategies.
- Difficulty with understanding meaning of words.
91Components of Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Activate Prior Knowledge
Answer/Generate Questions
Multicomponent Instruction
Monitor Comprehension
Summarize Using Graphic Organizers
(Adapted from Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds,
2006)
92Anticipate What You Will Learn
- Preview slides and handouts.
- Make a prediction What will you learn during
this portion of the professional development?
93Component 1 Activate Prior Knowledge
- What is it?
- Existing information students have about a topic,
skill, or idea. - Why is it important?
- Helps students make connections between what they
already know and what they are reading.
94Activate Prior KnowledgeEffective Strategies
Making/Monitoring Predictions
95Previewing Text
- Model by thinking aloud.
- Highlight headings, pictures, key words.
- Provide small-group practice.
- Provide independent practice.
96Making/Monitoring Predictions
- After previewing text, ask students to make
informed comments about the text and what they
will learn. - Do not solicit guesses.
- Keep it brief.
- Revisit after reading to confirm or disconfirm
predictions. - Provide key ideas or concepts to build background
knowledge.
97Other Ways to Activate Prior Knowledge
- Preview the material by identifying key words or
concepts. - Have students briefly discuss what they know
about a topic. - Explain the use of a word splash.
- Describe the use of a KWL chart.
- Demonstrate the use of an anticipation guide.
98Component 2 Answering and Generating Questions
- What is it?
- Strategies that assist students in answering
comprehension questions and generating their own
questions about the text to facilitate
understanding. - Why is it important?
- Teaches students where and how to find answers.
99Answering and Generating QuestionsEffective
Strategies
Levels of Questions
Self-Questioning
100Strategy 1 Determining Levels of Questions
Level 3 Making Connections Cannot be answered by
looking in text alone
Level 2 Putting it Together Put pieces of
information from text together to come up with
answer
Level 1 Right There Easier questions, one- or
two-word answers
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006
UTCRLA, 2003 Blachowicz Ogle, 2001 Bos
Vaughn, 2002 NIFL, 2001 NRP, 2000 Raphael,
1986)
101Goals of Using Leveled Questions
- Help students ask and answer increasingly
sophisticated types of questions. - Help students become better consumers of text by
being able to ask and answer both simple and
complex questions. - Show students how to approach different types of
questions.
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006)
102Explicitly Teach Each Question Level
Introduce one level of question at a time.
Model how to answer each level of question.
Provide guided practice.
Provide supported, independent practice. Provide
immediate feedback to students.
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006
UTCRLA, 2003 Blachowicz Ogle, 2001 Bos
Vaughn, 2002 NIFL, 2001 NRP, 2000 Raphael,
1986)
103Strategy 2 Self-Questioning
- The act of asking yourself questions as you read,
such as - Where is this story taking place?
- Why is this information important for me to know?
- This strategy is also used to monitor
comprehension.
104Explicitly Teaching Self-Questioning
- Model how to self-question.
Provide guided practice.
Provide supported, independent practice. Provide
immediate feedback to students.
105What Does Self-Questioning Look Like?
- Materials
- Handout 9, Tornadoes
- Scratch paper and pencils
106Component 3 Monitoring Comprehension
Strategies
- What are they?
- Strategies that enable students to keep track of
their understanding as they read and to implement
fix-up strategies when understanding breaks
down. - Why are they important?
- By monitoring their understanding, students
become more independent in understanding what is
being read.
107Effective Strategies forMonitoring Comprehension
Main Idea
Fix-up Strategies
108Strategy 1 Finding the Main Idea
Identify the most important who or what.
Identify the most important information about
the who or what.
Write this information in one short sentence
(e.g., 10 words or less).
(Klingner, Vaughn, Schumm, 1998)
109What Does Finding the Main Idea Look Like?
- Materials
- Handout 9, Tornadoesone per participant
- Handout 10, Finding the Main Ideaone per
participant
110Strategy 2 Fix-Up Strategies
Rereading, restating
Stopping when you come to a word that you do not
know
Using strategies to figure out unfamiliar words
or phrases (e.g., context clues, breaking the
word apart)
(Klingner, Vaughn, Dimino, Schumm, Bryant, 2001)
111Component 4 Graphic Organizers and
Summarization
Graphic organizers can be used to aid students
with summarization.
112Graphic Organizers
- What are they?
- Visual representations of ideas in text.
- Why are they important?
- Assist students in identifying, organizing, and
remembering important ideas.
113Graphic Organizers can be Used to
- Activate relevant background knowledge
- Guide students thinking about the text
- Help students remember important elements and
information in texts - Help students see and understand how concepts
relate to one another within a text - Promote both questioning and discussion as
students collaborate and share ideas and - Provide a springboard for organizing and writing
summaries.
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006)
114Graphic Organizer for Summarization
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006)
115Summarization Instruction
- What is it?
- Strategies to help students identify the most
important elements of what they read. - Why is it important?
- Enhances ability to synthesize large amounts of
information during and after reading.
116Before SummarizingUsing the Graphic Organizer
- Teacher introduces the graphic organizer (GO) and
explains its purpose. - Teacher provides the big idea of the passage
and writes it in the center of the GO. - Students read the passage, paragraph by
paragraph, and record the main idea of each
paragraph on the GO.
Main Idea
Main Idea
Big Idea
Main Idea
Main Idea
(Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds, 2006)
117Summarization Steps for Students
Write a topic sentence using the big idea.
1
Include main ideas in an order that makes sense.
2
Delete information that is redundant or trivial.
3
Reread for understanding and edit if necessary.
4
118How do I Teach it?
Provide guided practice.
Provide supported, independent practice. Provide
immediate feedback to students.
Provide examples and nonexamples.
119What Does Summarization With Graphic Organizers
Look Like?
- Materials
- Handout 9, Tornadoesone per participant
- Handout 11, Graphic Organizer Main Idea and
Summarization (for Tornadoes)one per
participant - Handout 12, Graphic Organizer Main Idea and
Summarization (blank)one per participant
120Summarization Steps for Students
Write a topic sentence using the big idea.
1
Include main ideas in an order that makes sense.
2
Delete information that is redundant or trivial.
3
Reread for understanding and edit if necessary.
4
121Highlighted StudyKlingner Vaughn (1996)
- Participants
- 26 students (some LD),
- grades 7 and 8
Reciprocal Teaching 15 days
122Reciprocal TeachingStrategies Taught
- Predict what a passage is about.
- Brainstorm what you know about the topic.
- Clarify words and phrases.
- Highlight the main idea of a paragraph.
- Summarize the main idea.
- Identify important details of a passage.
- Ask and answer questions.
123Reciprocal TeachingStrategies Taught (continued)
Participants 26 students (some LD), grades 7 and 8
Reciprocal Teaching 15 days
Cross-Age Tutoring n 13
Cooperative Groups n 13
124Reciprocal TeachingStrategies Taught (continued)
Cross-Age Tutoring
Cooperative Learning
Participants implemented the comprehension
strategies in cooperative learning groups (35
students) for 12 days.
Participants provided tutoring to sixth-grade
students on comprehension strategies.
For both interventions, the researcher Circulated
around the room Monitored behavior
and Provided assistance, as needed.
125Findings
- Initial reading ability and oral language
proficiency seemed related to gains in
comprehension. - A greater range of students benefited from
strategy instruction than would have been
predicted. - Students in both groups continued to show
improvement in comprehension when provided
minimal adult support.
126Implications for the Classroom
- Implementing comprehension strategy practice
within peer groups frees up the teacher for
monitoring student performance. - Teachers may want to consider comprehension
instruction for a wide range of students,
including those with very low reading levels.
127Components of Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Activate Prior Knowledge
Answer/Generate Questions
Multicomponent Instruction
Monitor Comprehension
Summarize Using Graphic Organizers
(Adapted from Simmons, Rupley, Vaughn, Edmonds,
2006)
128Multicomponent Comprehension Strategies are
- The combination of several reading comprehension
strategies in order to gain meaning from text. - Why is it important?
- The combination of strategies increases the level
of comprehension. - It leads to eventual automaticity.
129How do I Teach it?
After teaching two or more comprehension
strategies, give students opportunity to
practice and apply knowledge.
Model using the strategies together.
Provide guided practice.
Provide supported, independent practice. Provide
immediate feedback to students. Teach students to
self-regulate their use of strategies.
130Revisit Your Anticipation Chart
131Confirm/Disconfirm Predictions
Confirmed? ___ Yes ___ No
132Conclusions About Comprehension Instruction
- TEACH STRATEGIES
- Do not just ask comprehension questions.
- Eventually, show students how to combine these
strategies and use them concurrently.
133What is Motivation?
- How can I incorporate motivation into my lessons
for my students with reading disabilities and
difficulties?
134Research on Motivation
- Motivation
- Makes reading enjoyable
- Increases strategy use and
- Supports comprehension.
(Guthrie Wigfield, 2000)
135Motivation
(Boardman et al., 2008)
136Instructional Practices Associated With Improved
Motivation
- Four critical instructional practices can improve
- students motivation.
- Provide content goals for reading.
- Support student autonomy.
- Provide interesting texts.
- Increase collaboration during reading.
(Guthrie Humenick, 2004)
137Instructional Practice 1 Content Goals
A content goal is a question or purpose for
reading. It emphasizes the importance of and
increases interest in learning from what we read.
A teacher could
- Facilitate the use of relevant background
knowledge. - Arrange hands-on experiences.
- Make content goals interesting and relevant.
- Model behaviors of a curious reader.
- Involve students in creating and tracking content
goals. - Provide feedback on progress of meeting goals.
(Guthrie Humenick, 2004)
138Instructional Practice 2 Support Student
Autonomy
Student autonomy refers to students making
instructional decisions for themselves.
- Provide opportunities for students to select
which text they read. - Allow students to choose aspects of the task in
which they are to engage. - Provide opportunities for students to either
select partners or groups, or to work alone.
(Guthrie Humenick, 2004)
139Instructional Practice 3 Use Interesting Texts
Students enjoy reading texts they find
interesting and choose to continue reading these
texts during free time. Here are several
guidelines for selecting appropriate and
interesting material
- Choose texts for which students possess
background knowledge. - Choose texts that are visually pleasing and
appear readable. - Choose texts that are relevant to students
interests. - Provide stimulating tasks.
(Guthrie Humenick, 2004)
140Instructional Practice 4 Increase
Collaboration During Reading
Adolescents are motivated by working
together. Collaboration increases the number of
opportunities struggling readers have to respond.
- Allow students to collaborate by reading
together, sharing information, and presenting
their knowledge. - Teach collaborative group work skills.
- Use collaboration to foster a sense of belonging
to the classroom community (Anderman, 1999).
(Guthrie Humenick, 2004)
141Motivation Practical Ideas
Provide weekly/monthly rewards.
Allow students to choose incentives.
Provide student choice.
Schedule student conferences.
Allow students to graph their progress.
Allow students to participate in goal setting or
lesson planning.
142Effective Reading Instruction at the Secondary
Level Putting it all Together
- A Review of Instructional Recommendations
- Teach word study skills to adolescent readers who
struggle at the word level. There are a variety
of methods to teach this information, but most
involve teaching students to decode words by
recognizing syllable types or by analyzing parts
of words. - Use data to decide how much fluency intervention
students should receive and whether it should be
paired with instruction in decoding, vocabulary,
and/or comprehension-enhancing practices. - Teach the meanings of words to students to
enhance their vocabulary. Your instructional
goals will guide the words and instructional
approach you select. - Teach students specific comprehension strategies
that they can use to enhance their comprehension.
Once individual strategies are taught, combine
two or more into a single lesson. - Use instructional practices that promote student
motivation.
143Considerations for Implementation
- Adjust the focus and intensity of interventions
according to individual student needs.
-
- Assess and monitor the progress of students.
- Provide targeted support in well-planned,
small-group sessions over a long period of time.
144Considerations for Implementation (continued)
- Provide professional development and support to
teachers in general education classrooms to
provide classwide interventions.
145Considerations for Implementation (continued)
Create ways for general education teachers and
specialists to collaborate and coordinate on
- Instructional techniques and content.
- Programwide decisions.
- Implementation of reading instruction.
146Continue to Learn!
- Use Center on Instruction resources to build your
background knowledge of reading instruction for
older struggling readers. - Academic Literacy Instruction for Adolescents A
Guidance Document from the Center on Instruction - Adolescent Literacy Resources An Annotated
Bibliography - Interventions for Adolescent Struggling Readers
A Meta-analysis With Implications for Practice - Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling
Readers A Practice Brief
Continue to seek out other sources of support and
knowledge. Visit www.centeroninstruction.org.