Comments on: Comprehension Strategies Posters V.3

By: Angela Lee

Angela Lee — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:42 +0000

Thank’s so much for sharing these posters. What a fantastic resource. I’ll be pointing the rest of my team in the direction of your blog!

By: Pam Thompson

Pam Thompson — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:55:45 +0000

Thank you Matthew for sharing. What a wonderful world we live in when people like you put so much effort into resources and then generously share them with others. I like Angela’s suggestions – can’t add any more than that myself.

By: Mark Walker

Mark Walker — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 04:56:37 +0000

Matthew
I really like the effort you have gone to have students in the classroom use this information in their learning. I like Angela’s suggestions particularly around connections and schema.

We try and use students words to describe what the strategies mean to them thus creating “anchor charts” [provide anchors for students learning] but after a time we need to replace these charts [space on classroom walls is precious] and your chrats as reminders of their work are powerful.

Well done! I will refer a number of my teachers to your site – thanks.

Mark Walker
http://www.mwalker.com.au

By: Mathew

Mathew — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:14:00 +0000

Hi Angela,

Thank you for your suggestions. I’m considering having a different version of the cards for upper and lower grades. I might be able to work in some of your language for the upper grade cards.

By: Angela Maiers

Angela Maiers — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:17:54 +0000

Matthew-
Your posters have been presentation zen’d-they are looking great! Love the powerful images.

I might suggest:

Visualizing is a full sensory expereience- maybe adapt to sensory image

Predicting is also about envisioning the future intentions, actions, motivations

Connections- can only be made if we active, use, and apply our background knowledge or schema

Great work- just thoughts to extend the strategies toward a deeper disposition of active, mindful, and lasting reading

By: Mathew

Mathew — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:32:34 +0000

@Sylvia

Thanks for taking the time to give some great suggestions. I’ll take some time to examine them. I’m not sure about what language our textbooks use in terms of naming the strategies. I need to be consistent with what the textbook calls them but will try and balance that with putting them all in the same tense.

By: Dan Callahan

Dan Callahan — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:46:44 +0000

These are great! Way more interesting to look at than the poster I was given from my reading program!

By: sylvia martinez

sylvia martinez — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:13:56 +0000

I like what you’ve done so far, the images are far better.

My comments would be to look for symmetry where it makes sense. For example, all your titles could be single words. All the explanatory text could be simpler action phrases (the one that sticks out to me is “Asking Questions” doesn’t really match the rest grammatically). And I’d leave the periods off. To me, it’s a cleaner look. I might try to center align the graphics too just to see how that looks. The bottom 3 seem off the the left.

Here are my suggestions:

Predict – Guess what happens next
Clarify – Look closer when things are confusing
Visualize – Imagine a picture in your head
Question – Ask questions to learn more
Connect – Connect what you read with what you already know
Summarize – Retell what happened in the story