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    COMPREHENSION

    For Grade 7
    Strategies for Reading Comprehension
    By: Mohammad Amer
    What is Comprehension?
    • Comprehension is the complex cognitive process
    involving the intentional interaction between
    reader and text to extract meaning.
    What the Research Says:
    • Some students require • Research indicates that
    explicit comprehension comprehension strategies
    strategy instruction. should be explicitly
    • Teachers play a critical taught and modeled long
    role in helping students term at all grade levels.
    develop comprehension • Students should practice
    strategies. the strategy with
    • Initially comprehension guidance, using many
    strategies can be taught texts, until they have a
    one at a time. good understanding.
    Why is Comprehension Important?
    • Comprehension, just as reading, is integral to
    everyday life in our society.
    • Students need to realize that we need to
    understand everything we read in order to learn
    from the text we interact with.
    • Because of the demands of high stakes testing,
    students need to learn to extract important
    information and transfer their knowledge to read
    and respond to different types of questions.
    • Students need to use comprehension skills
    across different mediums such as text books, the
    internet, and even video games.
    What Good Readers Do
    • Good readers use a number of strategies:
     Activating prior knowledge
     Monitoring comprehension
     Generating questions
     Answering questions
     Drawing inferences
     Creating mental imagery
     Identifying the text structure the writer has used
     Creating summaries
    How Comprehension Fits into the Reading
    Process

    • The early stages of reading development include


    learning the individual sounds of letters all the
    way to word and sentence meanings.
    • As students progress, they need to begin to use
    strategies that allow them to monitor their own
    comprehension and summarize what they read.
    Therefore when they get to intermediate grades
    they can focus on higher level comprehension
    strategies like inferencing and critiquing.
    Reading is Making Meaning!!
    • Teachers should emphasize • “The direct and explicit
    that readers read for meaning, teaching of comprehension
    not just to be “word strategies helps students
    identifiers.” become active readers who are
    engaged in understanding
    • We as teachers need to model written text. Teachers provide
    to students that reading is direct and explicit teaching of
    thinking, and how much we comprehension strategies
    value that process. through explanation,
    demonstration or modeling,
    • Making connections to ones’ guided practice, and
    self, to another text, or to the opportunities for children to
    world are very important practice using comprehension
    strategies. strategies when reading
    grade-appropriate children’s
    text.”
    What are the Strategies?
    National Reading Panel Report
     Graphic/Semantic organizers (maps, webs, graphs, or charts)
    Used to categorize and classify concepts.
     Answer a variety of questions (literal or inferential) during pre
    reading/reading/post reading. It can also set a purpose for
    reading.
     Ask questions about text meaning during all stages of reading.
    This produces active engagement.
     Teach students to recognize story structure. This helps them
    understand characters, events, and setting and how they
    contribute to the plot.
     Summarize main ideas. Key details are critical to
    understanding the authors message.
     It is also beneficial for students work cooperatively to construct
    meaning of a text.
    Graphic Organizers
    Strategies for Differentiation

    • EARLY INTERVENTION WITH ASSESSMENT


    • Small group instruction
    • One-on-one instruction
    • Discuss smaller portions of a text
    • Focus on the needs of the individual student
    based on assessment.
    Comprehension Across Different Genres

    • Students need to learn strategies that allow them to


    comprehend different kinds of texts such as fiction and
    nonfiction.
    • These strategies should be taught early on because as
    students progress through elementary school, the
    demands for text comprehension changes from narrative
    to expository texts.
    • Even in primary grades, students should be introduced
    to expository text features and how to begin to interact
    with them.
    • Also, they should be made aware of narrative text
    structures or story grammars and how they effect the
    meaning of the text.
    Is Comprehension Taking Place?
    Informal Assessments
    • Asking children if they understand a story or an
    informational piece.
    • Having conversations with the children about
    the material read.
    • Observing children as they respond to the text
    both verbally and nonverbally.
    • Observing children’s behavior for evidence of
    using cues while reading.
    • Observing children’s responses to the text in
    art and writing.
    Some of Our Findings…
    • “Comprehension is important because students
    need to learn that reading is understanding.
    Students need to use strategies early on so they
    can be more comfortable using these strategies
    when they move up through the intermediate
    grades.”
    • “Some of the things I use in my classroom are:
    modeling comprehension strategies, discussing
    them during mini lessons.”
    • The most useful strategies for kids in grades are
    monitoring comprehension and summarizing.”
    • “Something I have trouble with is making sure my
    students are using these strategies effectively.”
    • “Something I would like to learn how to do is to
    take notes effectively to inform my instruction.”
    Bibliography

    Dymock, Susan (2007).Comprehension Strategy Instruction: Teaching Narrative Text


    Structure Awareness. The Reading Teacher. 61, 161-166.

    Fountas, Irene (1996). Guided Reading. Portsmouth,NH: Heinemann.

    Fountas, Irene (2001). Guiding Readers and Writers, Grades 3-6. Portsmouth,NH:
    Heinemann.

    Thornhill, Ann (2007).Instruction of Metacognitive Strategies Enhances Reading


    Comprehension and Vocabulary Achievement of Third Grade Students. The
    Reading Teacher. 61, 70-77.

    Vacca, Jo Anne (2003). Reading and Learning to Read, Fifth Edition. Boston, Ma:
    Pearson Education Inc.

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