Comprehending Reading Materials

Ways to Improve Reading Comprehension Skills

Grade ElevenBy: Sabrina Hawkins3/23/11

Comprehension styles

How do you remember what you read?

Can those skills be improved?

Testing Comprehension

http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/smell1.htm

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Styles to Improve Comprehension

• Predicting

• Comparing and Contrasting

• Recalling/Summarizing

• Making Inferences/Drawing Conclusions

PredictionsPredict what will happen next.

Should be a fun process that does not distract from reading.

If actively engaged, predictions should occur naturally.

Hypothesize why the king in My Last Duchess calls her his “last duchess”

Compare/ContrastTalk with others to get their views.

Discuss previous works with similar qualities or same author, possibly who influenced the writer, the time era etc.

My Last Duchess

Porphyria's Lover

Recall/SummaryRecall details from readings

Summarize what has been read

Retain information better if “teaching” occurs

Inferences/ConclusionsLogical inferences proved by text

Conclusions can be supported by text

Predicting- Creating Poem

From the handout, re-create the poem how you see it.

Logically supported by the first few lines.

About 1 page in length not graded on poetic skill, but on content.

Rhymed lines by AA, BB, CC etc. until ZZ, try to stay with the pattern.

http://www.rhymezone.com/

Comparing and Contrasting

Creating your bloghttp://classblogmeister.com/

Post a blog of your poem, then leave constructive comments on 2 classmates blogs.1.Compare/contrast your idea vs. classmates idea. Don’t criticize ideas, only show how opinions differ.2.Critique/justify why opinion is supported by text given, or not supported.

Recalling/Summarizing

Now that you have read the full poem recall and summarize the main action in the poem. To do this we will create our own comic strip in class

http://www.pixton.com/schools/activate#video

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://mason.gmu.edu/~lsmithg/275duchess.htm

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Pixton For Schools. (2011). Retrieved on March 20, 2011 from

http://www.pixton.com/schools/activate#video

Rhyme Zone. (2011). Retrieved on March 21, 2011 from http://www.rhymezone.com/

Study Zone. (1998). Retrieved on March 21, 2011 from http

://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/smell1.htm

TaskStream. (2011). Ohio Content Standards. Retrieved on March 19, 2011 from

http://www.taskstream.com/Main/main_frame.asp

The Landmark Project. (n.d.). Retrieved on March 20, 2011 from

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