Comprehension+Strategies

[|Best definition of "comprehension"] I have ever come across - by Frank Serafini

[|Build Sustained Reading Time] Cris Tovani explains how everything circles around to engagement. [|Monitor Comprehension] STUDENTS explain how they monitor their comprehension. [|Beanie Baby posters] - strategies for our K-2 kids [|Beanie Baby Website] - posters, bookmarks, suggestions [|Teacher confers] with student to show her how to chunk words. Added 5/14/13. Choice Literacy Membership. [|5th Grade Fix Up Strategies] - Choice Literacy Membership VIDEO Added 2/17/13 [|Layering Picture Clues and Cross Checking]  VIDEO Choice Literacy Membership VIDEO 3/13/13 [|Decoding Multisyllable Words] Choice Literacy Membership VIDEO 6/17/13 [|Vocabulary Word Wall] Upper Grades VIDEO Added 9/26/13 Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes [|Foldable] Added 11/24/13
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">FIX UP; MONITORING **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Superficial or Significant Comparisons] Lesson Plan on To Make a Prairie
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">CONNECTIONS **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> (Comparisons, Analogies, Relationships, Metaphors)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Teacher scaffolds [|vocabulary needed for retelling] <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Choice Literacy Membership VIDEO Added 2/17/13
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">RETELLING **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|To Model or Not To Model] How can we teach students to ask and work through problems?
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">QUESTIONS **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|You Make Me Smile]- VIDEO. Lyrics set to images.Added 2/17/13
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">VISUALIZATION **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Keep It Or Junk It] Sort important from unimportant when reading difficult text. <span class="gmw_" style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Ms. BBZ] Determining Importance. Photos of kids at work and <span class="gm_ gm_880c43c9-e9d9-58a8-a58c-fc53392dfd4b gm-spell">daybooks. Added 4/22/13. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_"><span class="gmw_">[|Determining importance] <span class="gm_ gm_7bc5e006-cd98-bd67-488c-2ecf3462716a gm-spell">in <span class="gmw_"> Nonfiction  <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Choice Literacy Membership VIDEO Added 3/13/13
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">DETERMINING IMPORTANCE **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span class="gmw_">Munch a bunch of caterpillars. Strengthen INFERRING skills. Students write subhead and what they think it is. Then, read to see what it is about. There are subheads and inferential subheads (Stephanie Harvey).
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">INFERRING **

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">//Links work as of 5/27/13//