Angela Maiers presents this slideshow on reading comprehension. I wish I had attended the actual workshop, however, the slideshow still raises several important points about reading. My favorite among them is the part about how we offer ridiculous extrinsic incentives for reading that have little to do with fostering a genuine love of reading. The …
Tag: Reading Comprehension
Four Ways to Improve Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension tends to be an area in need of improvement in many schools with high concentrations of English Language Learners, Standard English Learners, and even some “high performing” schools admit that students can read but they don’t know what they’re reading. We tend to teach the same way we’ve been taught. However, there are …
Reading Strategies V.2
I have recently redone the reading comprehension strategy cards and they’re available to download. For those unfamiliar with the reading strategies, they are: predicting, making connections, summarizing, asking questions, clarifying, and visualizing. The new cards are more visual and include definitions on the front and back as well as scaffolding (linguistic frames) for both …
Teaching Inference
One way to teach students to make inferences is to teach them that there are different kinds of questions. Questions where the answer is clearly in the text, questions when you must use your own head, and questions which ask you to connect to the text. Francie Kugelman has created these charts which students can …
Comprehension Passport Training: Stairway to Comprehension
LAUSD teachers, please join us on November 26th from 3:45-6:45 at Shenandoah Elementary in LAUSD, District 3 for our Comprehension Passport, Stairway to Comprehension. We will be focusing on unit openers, discussing the selection and recording new learning. I will be there presenting a piece of the training in the K-1 group. Please introduce yourself …