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Dive into sensory images, questioning techniques, inference drawing, and more to improve comprehension and fluency. Explore strategies like mind maps, making connections, and synthesizing information. Improve reading speed and expression to boost fluency.
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Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com Lorislatestlinks.com
Thinking Strategies • Sensory Images • Making Connnections • Questioning • Drawing Inferences • Determining Importance • Synthesis • Fix Up Strategies
Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind Predictions Reactions Expression Can’t Stop Reading
Readers unable to create images while reading Lack of Interest in Reading Unable to Describe/ Retell No Emotions To Text
Making Connections Text to Text Text to Self Text to World
Alphaboxes LAVA ISLAND MAGMA
Questioning • Questioning helps the reader clarify ideas and deepen understanding. • I wonder… • Why? • What if? • What does this mean? • Does this make sense?
Location of Answers • In the Book • In the Reader’s Head • Author Gives Clues • Another Book • Another Person
Drawing Inferences • Drawing Inferences is the process of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.
Determining Importance • Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.
Everyone Read To… Everyone Read to Find Out…. Great One for PowerPoint!
Synthesis • “Synthesis is about organizing the different pieces to create a mosaic, a meaning, a beauty, greater than the sum of each shiny piece.” – Ellin Keene
Summary Frame • ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ______
Comprehension Frame • We read ______________. The most important thing about this text is ______________________________. The reader can use this information to help them _________________________. The reader will also learn about ________________ and _____________ in this text.
Helpful Resources Scholastic Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis Linda Hoyt
Fluency “The ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)
Ways to Improve Fluency • Repeated readings of familiar texts • Partner Reading • Shared Reading • Listening to Books on Tape • Readers Theatre • Reading Series Books