Effective
Comprehension Instruction
The core of reading comprehension:
Readers build a coherent representation of the text;
they understand what they read.
As these Ògood comprehendersÓ move through text, they:
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Attend to information
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Make decisions about what is
important
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Connect the information to
related text information or what they already know
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Pull it all together to develop
meaning
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Are actively engaged.
To promote active reading, or engaged readers, we
should:
Teach students explicit strategies or routines for
dealing with texts that can be generalized across texts. Our goal is to promote
independent, self-regulated readers and writers.
Reading
Strategies:
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Previewing/Predicting
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Summarizing
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Inferring
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Generating Questions
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Clarifying-Rereading
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Monitoring Comprehension
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Visualizing
Questioning the
Author (QTA) an
instructional approach or routine that helps students build a deeper
understanding of texts by learning to Query the author.
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This approach encourages
discussion in which students engage with ideas to construct meaning;
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Is prompted by general
teacher-posed Queries such as
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What is the author trying to say
or tell you?
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Why is the author telling you
that?
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Does the author say it clearly?
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How could the author have said
things more clearly?
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What would you say instead?
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