1. Reading Comprehension Virtual Tutoring Session 4

2. Development • Reading comprehension is aided by rapid decoding skills • Comprehension breaks down when a student is struggling to read the words • We don’t just wait for students to develop decoding skills to teach comprehension • Read Alouds • Critical Academic Skill

3. Where does it fit?

4. How do we teach it? • Reading Comprehension is taught as a meta-cognitive skill • Good readers are always thinking while they read. • Strategies • Connecting • Wondering • Predicting • Inferring • Visualizing • Noticing

5. Connecting • Encouraging readers to find a connection with the text and something else. • Text to text • Text to Self • Text to World

6. Wondering • Encourage readers to ask questions before, during, and after reading. • Before • Sets a purpose for reading • During/After • Helps the reader recognize when things aren’t making sense • Attempts to dig deeper

7. Predicting • Encouraging readers to guess what might happen next • Requires inferencing and noticing skills • Encourages the reader to pay attention!

8. Inferring • Encouraging readers to “read between the lines” • Developmental • Used to • Make predictions • Solve unknown words • Draw conclusion • Connects background knowledge and text clues

9. Visualizing • Encourages readers to make a picture in their own mind. • Can be challenging for many • Think of the five sense • Guided Imagery

10. Noticing • Encouraging readers to notice important details, changes in the text, writing styles • Goal is to notice and then infer, question, predict, visualize! • Informational Text Features • Graphs, Charts • Illustrations • Stylistic Elements • Font changes

11. Tools to Use • Read Alouds • Make hard texts accessible • Think Alouds • Model how a reader would use a strategy • Teach each strategy explicitly • Encourage oral language skills by having students talk about the strategies • Graphic Organizers • Use a variety of text! • Into the Book Website