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Designed and presented by Chris Winters at ICS Professional Day, November 2010
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Teaching Effective
Reading Strategies
Identify
•Key strategies good readers use
•Several teaching strategies.
Design
•Lesson plans that target improved reading comprehension.
Summarize
•Today’s lesson by creating an acrostic.
You will be able to:
Activating Background Knowledge
Explain one way you activate background knowledge before beginning a new story, book, or lesson…
Background Knowledge
Word Webs
Journal Make a List
Think, Pair, Share
Activating Background Knowledge
Good readers make connections•What does it mean to connect with a
character or situation in a story?
Activating Background KnowledgeGood readers make connections
• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?
Good Connections:
Reflecting on similar experiences to the character of a story• Lead to understanding character’s
thoughts, feelings, motivations, etc
Recalling experiences or knowledge related to the setting of a story• Increases context and allows the
reader to enter the writer’s setting
Good Connections:
Are not random thoughts the story reminds you of
Do not require the exact same circumstances or
setting to be valid
Concept Teaching
Activating Background KnowledgeGood readers make connections
• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?
Verbal or written summary of a passage or event in the story
Recall and Reflection of knowledge or an event that leads to
connection with the story
A deeper understanding of the characters, setting, or
plot of a story
Formulating QuestionsGood readers formulate questions.
Why do good readers ask questions?
Formulating QuestionsGood readers formulate questions.• What does it mean to connect with a character or situation in a story?
Why do good readers ask questions?
Questions
Keep the reader
engaged
Lead to
predicti
ons
How will he respond to that?
What is she
up to?
How in the
world is he
going to get
out of this
one?
Formulating QuestionsHow do we model and encourage the asking of questions?
Students Formulating Questions
Use good questions as
writing prompts.
Pausing during read aloud to pose a
question or allow students to ask one.
Explain why good readers ask questions.
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read. Why is visualizing key to improved comprehension?
Context• Entering the world
the author has created
Connection
• Captures imagination.
• Greater understanding of characters
Organization
• Keeping the characters straight
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read. Why is visualizing key to improved comprehension?
Story Boards• Combines
drawing & summarizing
Models• Dioramas• Recreating a
scene
Newspapers• A look into the
world where the story takes place
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.
Story Boards• Combines
drawing & summarizing
Facilitates :•Retelling the story.•Sequence of events•Identifying major events and turning points
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.
Models• Dioramas• Recreating
a scene
Facilitates :•Visualization•Options for students who are not great artists•Visual aide for retelling a scene
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.
Models• Dioramas• Recreating
a scene
Facilitates :•Visualization•Options for students who are not great artists•Visual aide for retelling a scene
VisualizingGood readers create mental images of characters, settings, and scenes of the stories they read.
Newspapers• A look into the
world where the story takes place
Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.
Good teachers teach their students how to summarize instead of just asking them to do it.
• Getting down to the heart of the matter• Restating the gist in a brief manner• Processing information and restating it in a different
way• A skill that can be practiced using many different
learning activities
Summarizing is:
• Copying the source• Restating all the facts• Using a thesaurus to change the words Summarizing
is not:
Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.
Paraphrase: a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form
• Processing and retelling a story or body of work in your own words
• An academic skill useful for study as well as a vital part of research and other academic writing.
Paraphrasing is:
• Necessarily brief• Using a thesaurus to change the words• A short cut to citing an author’s workParaphrasing
is not:
Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.
•Tell Students key ideas or concepts to look for before they begin reading. “I want you to notice…”
Priming
•Read select passages as opposed to chapters before pausing.
Chunking
•3-2-1- Summarize!
•Save the last quote!
•Acrostic
Modeling/Directing
Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.
Make an acrostic for one of the following words to summarize what you have learned about teaching reading today.
Read
Reading
Strategy
Readers
Summarizing & ParaphrasingGood readers process and internalize a story by retelling it.