Anchor Charts to Support Comprehension Strategies
By Mary Malloy &
Katrina Purdue
Professional DevelopmentIRT training from Cindy and
Therese
Embedded Midvale PD• Year 1- Primary Literacy
Notebook
• Year 2- Comprehension Strategies with Debbie Miller
• Year 3- Comprehension revisited + writing
Resources
• Literacy Room Books • Book Room Titles for Book Club
Curriculum Maps
FI RST GRADE
LI TERACY CURRI CULUM MAP
MONTH WRI TI NG* COMPREHENSI ON
STRATEGI ES**
September Writing Sample Book 1: Launching the Writing
Workshop
Literary Elements (Little Yellow Chicken) (Corduroy)
October Book 2: Small Moments:
Personal Narrative Writing Making Connections:
T- S, T- T, T- W (Chrysanthemum)
November Book 3: Writing f or Readers:
Teaching Skills and Strategies
Predicting
December Book 4: The Craf t of Revision I nferring
J anuary
Assessing Book 5: Authors as Mentors
Review/ Assess PLAA Comprehension Strategies:
February Book 7: Poetry Creating Mental Images
March Book 6: Nonfiction Writing Asking Questions
April Book 6 - continued Determining I mportance/
Non Fiction
May
Teacher or Student Choice Assessing
Reviewing and Assessing PLAA Comprehension Strategies
*Ref ers to Units of Study f or Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins **Order of comprehension strategy instruction is based on Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition by Keene and Zimmermann, page 34 . Genres are presented throughout the year.
Once the strategies are introduced they are reinf orced throughout the year.
DRAFT
SECOND GRADE LI TERACY CURRI CULUM MAP
MONTH WRI TI NG* COMPREHENSI ON
STRATEGI ES**
September Writing Sample Book 1: Launching the Writing
Workshop
Literary Elements/Retelling (The Man, the boy and the Donkey)
October Book 2: Small Moments:
Personal Narrative Writing Making Connections:
T- S, T- T, T- W (A Quilt f or Kristi)
November Book 3: Writing f or Readers:
Teaching Skills and Strategies
Predicting/ I nferring
December Book 4: The Craf t of Revision Questioning
J anuary
Assessing Book 5: Authors as Mentors
Review/ Assess PLAA Comprehension Strategies:
February Book 7: Poetry Creating Mental Images
March Book 6: Nonfiction Writing Determining I mportance
April Book 6 - continued Synthesizing
May
Teacher or Student Choice Assessing
Reviewing and Assessing PLAA Comprehension Strategies
*Ref ers to Units of Study for Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins **Order of comprehension strategy instruction is based on Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition by Keene and Zimmermann, page 34 . Genres are presented throughout the year. Once the strategies are introduced they are reinforced throughout the year.
DRAFT
Implementation
• Modeling(Anchor Charts)
• Shared Practice (Anchor Charts)
• Guided Practice (notebooks)
• Independent Practice (Book Club, notebooks)
Monitoring Comprehension
Connections
Book Club
• Heterogeneous Small Groups
• Adult reads book aloud to group
• Each child is given a copy of the text
• Students reflect and use post-its to track their thinking
• Students initiate discussions
• Follow-up reflection in reading journals
Book Club Introduction
Book Club
Book Club
• First Session • Second Session
Inferring
Questioning
Book Club
Mental Imaging
Mental Imaging Texts
Book Club Revisited
Determining Importance
Determining Importance
Determining Importance with Fables
Book Club
• magazines • poetry
Synthesizing
Synthesizing
Synthesizing with Allen Say
Synthesizing
Summary of Book Club
Evolved over the year• Added to format (coding, one main idea)
• Changed genres (poetry and nonfiction)
• Developed oral language• Students problem solved around
group dynamics• Volunteers and students became
more comfortable with format
Thanks to the 2nd graders who deepened our thinking!
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