Apples & Books

Apples & BooksPowerPoint Template1Reading is ThinkingMetacognition-thinking about your own thinkingThe purpose of reading is to understand what you read and to learn for the experienceInterpretation-as a result of two-way transaction between the reader and the textTo make sense of words to maintain interestTo

2METACOGNITIVE THINKING

Thinking about thinking !!!Wait ! What did that part of my brain just think ?August 2003Elkhart Community SChools3Definition:Metacognitive knowledge is an awareness of how one thinks and uses strategies during reading.

Teachers need to understand their own reading comprehension strategies and notice how they play out in their own reading before they can successfully teach them to children. Self-awareness is the first step.

What you do when youare reading that works.You as a Reader. Struggles you have when you are readingAugust 2003Elkhart Community SChools4On a two column chartteachers record their responses

What they do while they read that works.They struggles they experience while reading..**Good readers think while they read!

**They do different kinds of thinking.

**These kinds of thinking are called strategies

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Listen while I read from the book

Do what good readers dothink while I am reading to you.

Write down whatever thinking reactions you had!

6Readers Make Connections 3 types of connections

Text- to selfText-to worldText-to-text

7Effective Reading TeachersGood teachers modeling how to use strategiesGood teachers show their thinkingGood teachers use techniques that remind students to use strategiesGood teachers dont use just one, they integrate their use as readers do

8Comprehension Involves Four Levels of Thinking

LiteralInferentialCriticalEvaluative

9Comprehension is a ProcessInvolves a series of behaviors that occur over timeComprehension process begins during pre-readingContinues as students read, respond, explore, and apply their readingA readers process uses prior experiences and the authors text to construct meaning

10Quick WritesAn instructional procedure to aide in teaching comprehensionUsually done in a learning logRecord information, reflect, predict, summarize, recall, question, etc.A quick way for a teacher to check comprehension

In your Learning Log enter a Quick Write onA Glow and A GrowAbout Comprehension

11Prerequisites for ComprehensionStudents must haveAdequate background knowledge about the topic and genreBeing familiar with most vocabulary words in the textBeing able to read it fluently

When any of these requirements are lacking, students are unlikely to comprehend what they are reading.

12Struggling Readers:

Lack the prerequisitesAre frustratedDont like to readDont understand what they are reading

Need differentiated instruction

13Comprehension Strategies:Cognitive (thinking)Metacognitive (thinking about thinking) The most important strategies:Activate background knowledgeConnectingDetermining ImportanceDrawing InferencesEvaluatingMonitoring

14Strategies Continued The most important strategies:PredictingQuestioningRepairingSetting A PurposeSummarizingVisualizing

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Reading is ThinkingSense ItMaking Inferences/ Draw ConclusionsConnect To TextAsk QuestionsSummarize/ SynthesizeDecide Whats ImportantBuild FluencyExpand VocabularyPredict and ProveCheck UnderstandingAugust 2003Elkhart Community SChools17Throughout this school year (2003-2004) we will continue to focus on reading and these reading strategies. We will feature a reading strategy each month. Buildings will receive a new Power point presentation for that strategy. They will be designed to share at staff meetings, department meetings, or grade level meetings. An Important Note:

Although these strategies tend to be introduced independently, readers rarely use these in isolation when reading. These thoughts interact and intersect to help readers make meaning and often occur simultaneously during reading.

(Harvey and Goudvis)

18The Strategies Interact & Intersect

Pick a partnerYou will be assigned one or two of the comprehension strategiesUse pages 179-188 and page 191Fill in your assigned piece of the puzzle with key ideas about your strategy