Welcome to Literacy Session 3!

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Secondary Literacy 3: Reading Purposefully and Strategically

Opening: Handout 1

• Please read “The House” and follow the instructions on your table tent.

#CMIM Week 2 Lit Sessions SEC.Reading.Purp.Strategically.Handouts

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4 minutes

Session Goals

• Explain why setting a purpose for reading and using comprehension strategies are essential for reading

• Model reading strategies for students by thinking aloud

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Sociocultural

Context

TEXT ACTIVITY

READER

RAND Model (RAND Reading Study Group, 2002)

Reading Comprehension is an Interactive Process

Today’s Session

1 Opening

3 Think Alouds

2 Setting a Purpose & Comprehension Strategies

4 Application

Agenda

5 Closing

Setting a Purpose for Reading

• Who had the most challenging time with this activity?

Key Point # 1

Students need to know why they’re reading before they start reading. They need a purpose to guide their reading

Key Point # 2

Different disciplines have different purposes for reading, and therefore require different strategies for comprehension.

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What comprehension strategies do you use?

• Handout 2a: Biology– Purpose: To gain information about a biological

process

• Handout 2b: Math– Purpose: To gain information about a statistical method

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What am I doing to comprehend and reach my purpose for

reading?

What comprehension strategies do you use?

• As proficient readers, we (unconsciously) utilize specific reading strategies.

• We need to TEACH these strategies to our students so that they become better and better readers and thinkers in our disciplines.

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Comprehension Strategies

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Jigsaw: Comprehension Strategies

• Read about your group’s strategy.

• On your poster:

1. Describe your strategy

2. Explain how it can help you with content area texts in MATH and SCIENCE.

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Group 1: Self-Monitoring Group 4: Inferring

Group 2: Making Connections Group 5: Making Predictions

Group 3: Asking Questions Group 6: Visualizing

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Gradual Release of Responsibility

Modeled Shared Guided IndependentExplicitlyTaught

Teacher names and defines the strategy.

Teacher Responsibility Student responsibility

Gradual Release of Responsibility

Teacher models a strategy with a Think Aloud

Together, teacher and students apply the strategy.

Students practice the strategy during their own reading.

With feedback from teacher, students use the strategy alone or in small groups.

Key Point #3

Effective instruction involves the Gradual Release of Responsibility. This process occurs not only within lessons but over the course of the school year.

Improvements in comprehension require time and patience!

Gradual Release of Responsibility

Explicit

Instruction

Modeled

Learning

Shared Learning

Guided Learning

Independent Practice

I Do/INM

You Do/IP

We Do/GP

Think Aloud

Think Aloud

The Think Aloud is the moment in any great lesson where the teacher stops, pretends to be a student, and literally verbalizes what s/he is thinking while doing the desired activity.

Think Alouds

Think Alouds

• Think alouds must be:– Purposeful– Planned– In all your lessons

Key Point # 4

Thinking Aloud is the single best way for students to internalize thought processes & learn to apply comprehension strategies.

At pre-determined stopping points, stop reading & share your thoughts.

Record your thoughts in same way your students will record their thoughts.

Afterwards, ask: “What did you notice me doing to understand the book? How did that help me?”

Decide which comprehension

strategy (or strategies) will best help readers

comprehend the text or word problem.

Teach your key points!

Key Steps for Think Aloud

Think Alouds

• Think alouds must be:– Purposeful– Planned– In all your lessons

Key Point # 4

Thinking Aloud is the single best way for students to internalize thought processes & learn to apply comprehension strategies.

Model: Think Aloud

• Video

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CM Practice: Think Aloud

• 7 minutes: Independently, script one think aloud moment in an upcoming lesson plan.

- Science: use a text, graph, or chart you will be using in class

- Math: use a word problem

• 3 minutes: Find a partner and practice your think aloud. 1.5 minutes each

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Closing

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