LITERAL
What are the 6 steps for Strategy Instruction?
Introduction, Model, Guided Practice, Independent Practice, Assessment, Reinforcement
Why is it important to reinforce a strategy that is already learned?
To keep it fresh so the students can have the information to access and for implementation
How can strategy instruction be used to implement other strategies in other content areas?
Answers may vary.
What is another term for monitoring strategies?
Metacognitive
What would be the most challenging for students when it comes to monitoring strategies?
Recognizing when comprehension is not taking place
How can you, as the teacher, help your students with monitoring strategies?
Answers may vary.
What are the four techniques used in reciprocal teaching?
Predicting, Question Generating, Clarifying, and Summarizing
How do teachers help support students with activating prior knowledge?
Teachers must model.
In what 2 techniques might students have the most difficulty?
Question generating and Summarizing
Can these techniques work interchangeably or do they need to stay in order?
Overtime, students will become successful and can follow out of order
What is the challenge poor readers have in determining the topic sentence?
They think the first sentence is always the topic sentence.
How do students set goals for reading?
Students need to decide if reading is for pleasure, for study, or to gain information.
Given that the first sentence is not always the topic sentence, what strategy will help students determine the main idea?
Classifying
If you were the teacher, what is one way you can help students determine the main idea?
Answers may vary. Make a series of steps they might use to locate/construct the main idea and put it in a place where students can refer to while reading.
What are the 2 types of inferences?
Schema-based and text-based inferences
They ask themselves questions about the subject.
Why do you think students have difficulty making inferences?
Students can forget what they read, use wrong information, and over rely on prior knowledge.
What are some ways you can help struggling students make inferences?
Have students revisit the text, activate prior knowledge, and build connections between their prior knowledge and text.