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Building Comprehension
Prereading Techniques
During Reading Techniques
BETTER CONNECTION
Strategies vs Techniques
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Top reading teachers often begin the reading process by pre-teaching students critical facts and context they'll need to know in order to make sense of the text they are about to read.
What is Prereading Techniques?
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Top reading teachers begin the reading process by showing students critical facts and context they'll need to understand in order to make sense of the text they are about to read.
What is preteaching?
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Top Teachers are constantly checking for understanding by asking students questions to see if they "get it" frequently and throughout the passage they read.
What is DON'T WAIT?
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When asking students to make connections beyond a text, champion teachers recognize that certain types of questions are usually likely to reinforce comprehension than others.
What is MORE RIGOROUS QUESTIONS?
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When we find clues in the text, we should file them away (or write them down) carefully in our mind so we can pull them out later and see how they all fit together.
What is NOTICING? (Give the students guidance on what to notice to notice, model noticing for the students)
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Top teachers deliver the necessary preliminary information in a direct, clear, and organized manner at the onset of the reading lesson.
What are graphic organizers?
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The most basic approach to helping students comprehend a text is to take them through key information that will help them enter into reading as in informed reader.
What is CONTEXTING?
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Questions about a text can refer to at least 4 levels of meaning. Word or phrase level of meaning Sentence level of meaning Passage level of meaning Story level of meaning
What is LOWER THE LEVEL? (The lower level of meaning for words or sentences are critical to ensuring firm story-level understanding.
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This type of questions reinforces testable ideas rather than judgement, opinions, and stories that students may not be able to access. Where in the within the text, or can you think of another book we've read who was similair.
What is TEXT TO TEXT?
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Students are socialized to think of ways the text they are reading is similar to some previous or familiar experience.
What is making connections? (Thoughtful connections can often be the jumping-off place for inferences about the text. They can help students begin to understand the text by tapping into what they already know about a topic).
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A good experience with a text doesn't end when the reading ends. Champion teachers as questions as they push discussion onto broader or more analytical topics after completing a text.
What is POST READING TECHNIQUES?
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Champion teachers steer students in advance toward key ideas, concepts, and themes to look for.
What is FOCAL POINT
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Top reading teachers constantly emphasize groundedness in the text, on subjective and opinion questions, by asking questions where students must make references to facts or events from the text.
What is EVIDENCE-BASED QUESTIONING?
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Asking students to relate an issue in a story to some event or person in their world, or broader world.
What is TEXT-TO-WORLD?
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Students are taught to use clues from the text to create an image of what is described.
What is PICTURING? (Picturing is overused and poorly used strategy. Teachers may use valuable tome visualizing rather than reading or asking rigorous or more productive questions).
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Understanding a text's full meaning and relevance - is the ultimate aim of reading.
What is COMPREHENSION?
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In addition to introducing key ideas in advance of students reading them, the best teachers introduce key scenes before the students read them.
What is FRONT-LOADING?
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To use this technique effectively, combine the frequency of questions with brevity.
What is ask quickly to ensure comprehension and attention, and then get right back to reading?
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These questions sometimes lead students astray, but are best used when they focus on specific elements of the text being read. Such as how would you feel if...
What is TEXT- TO- SELF
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Students as questions of the text as they read.
What is WONDERING OR ASKING QUESTIONS TECHNIQUE? (wondering can be especially effective when modeled by a teacher. Don't let it result in the teacher doing most of the work).
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Core type of questions students need to be able to answer. Students to practice the full array of question types, both to ensure their success on assessments.
What are STANDARD- ALIGNED QUESTIONS?
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If you'r using your summary to quickly prepare students to read a new section of the text.
What is PRE-READING SUMMARY
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A strategy that involves the teacher asking students what they think is going to happen next.
What is Predicting?
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The most rigorous questioning format that is most likely to reinforce reading comprehension
What is TEXT - TO - TEXT?
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The strategy that attempts to focus on reading between the lines, left unsaid, hinted at. The strategy that ask students to go beyond the basic, literal understanding of the text to apply higher-order thinking.
What is FIGURING OUT and INFERRING?