Sit in FRONT in groups of 5 – 6.Take a piece of candy from the front basket. Have group discussion based on your candy choice:

A favorite book to teach a comprehension strategy and why

A tool you use for intervention on a comprehension skill

An assessment piece you use to measure comprehension gains

Something in comprehension support/assessment that puzzles or frustrates you

A professional book you have found invaluable in teaching or assessing comprehension

Confronting the Comprehension ConundrumStrategies to scaffold comprehensionJulie Stoverjstover@yssd.org

Essential Questions

What strategies will keep students engaged and increase comprehension?

What are some ways to gather data for comprehension skills?

How can we help students to comprehend the questions that are used to measure their reading comprehension?

Be an ACTIVE reader

Ask questionsConnectTrack downInferVisualizeEureka! Synthesize

Ask Questions

Tool kit: Strategy card Post-its- thick and thin Question stems

Ask Questions

Ask Questions

Graphic Organizers Where answered? Before, during, after Questioning as You Go Column notes

Where Answered?

Questioning as You Go

Questioning as You Go

The Sweetest Fig

Ask Questions

Measuring student progress with questioning Earobics Reach Quick Reads

Measuring Questioning

Earobics Reach This program leads children through phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The comprehension piece supports and measures questioning providing both an intervention and a measure.

Earobics Reach Data

Quick Reads Although this is a fluency program, the opportunity for questioning occurs throughout.

Measuring Questioning

Quick Reads for Questioning

Quick Reads for Questioning

Quick Reads Questioning Data

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Question(s) are thick questions posed about the topic.

Question(s) are thin questions posed about the topic.

Question(s) posed are not on topic

No question is posed

Chart Dogwww.interventioncentral.org

Connect

Tool kit Strategy cards Post-its Bookmark reminder

Connect

Connection Bookmark based on class anchor chart

Connect

Graphic Organizers Text to text, text to self, text to world File folder headings KWL Coding/Reflection

Making Connections Graphic Organizer

Making Connections Sample

When Lightning Comes in a Jar

Connect

Measuring student progress Rubric for self-reflection on staying

focused Rubric on connection response Study Island

Connections rubric

Study Island Data

Track Down

Tool Kit Strategy Cards: text structure, highlight

directions Highlighters Post-its

Track Down

Highlighting Directions

Track Down

Graphic Organizers Main Idea Table Main Idea Circles Text Feature Safari Summarizing notes Text Structures

Main Idea Table

Main Idea Circles

Time for Kids Non-fiction Kit

Main Idea Circles

Most people do not live close to schools.

It has been hard for girls

to go to school in

Egypt

Boys can walk miles to school.

Girls are not allowed to walk far from home.

Families are poor. They cannot pay for books and uniforms.

They just spend money on their sons.

Improved KWL Chart

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Rain Forest Babies

Summarizing Notes

Text Feature Safari

Text Structures

SequenceDescriptionCause/EffectCompare/ContrastProblem/Solution

Plot Structures

Track Down

Measuring Student Progress Quick Reads- record progress on Chart

Dog Short Text- easily identifiable main idea/

Main idea cards- record progress on Chart Dog

Picture main idea- record progress on Chart Dog

Study Island

Quick Reads- Track Down

Quick Reads- Track Down

Study Island Data

Study Island Data

Infer

Tool Kit Strategy cards Post-its

Infer

Infer

Graphic Organizers What’s in the Book/What’s in my Head Clues from the Story/What I Know/My

Inference

Infer Graphic Organizer Example 1

Clues from the Story +

What I Know = My Inference

Making Inferences with Jokes

Making Inferences with Jokes

Inferences in Primary

I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat

I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist

Never Take a Shark to the Dentist

Infer Graphic Organizer Example 2

Inferences for Intermediate

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book Example

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book

The Stranger

Infer

Measuring Student Progress Breaking assessments into question

types IRI- focus on inferring questions FCRR game- divide into packets of

questions and graph Earobics Reach Study Island

Study Island Data

FCRR.org

Florida Center for Reading ResearchStudent center activitiesChoose grade level- consider looking

at lower grade levels for remediationSearch through comprehension

some graphic organizers some short text for practice text structure practice infer, fact/opinion, and other skills

Visualize

Tool Kit Strategy Card Post-its Journal

Visualize

Visualize

Graphic Organizers Movie frames Cartoon summary Doodle pad Literary Device Notebook and Drawings

Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble

Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble

Comic Summary

Visualize

Measuring Student Progress Content of picture versus content of text Break down a sentence at a time if

necessary Retelling rubric Total comprehension ability

Eureka! Synthesize

Tool Kit Strategy cards Post-its Highlighters

Eureka! Synthesize

Eureka! Synthesize

Graphic Organizers Summarizing scaffold Sum it up! Comic summary

Sum It Up!

Sum It Up!

Eureka! Synthesize

Measuring Student Progress Retelling/summary rubric (DRA, PM

Rigby, IRI, DIBELS) Reading Response rubrics (PSSA reading

rubric?)

ACTIVE Carousel Stop Watch

Look at the letter at the back of your handout.

Move to letter groups throughout the auditorium.

Rotate stations in your half of the auditorium when you hear the timer.

List any additional ideas on the carousel chart paper for that station.

Watch the moodle for strategies shared.

Building foundations

The Six Magic Steps

a strategy for answering short answer questions

Six Magic Steps

Read the question or questionsCross out the question wordsCircle a good starting wordCapitalize the starting word if

neededUnderline or change words from the

questionWrite the answer

Six Magic Steps Example

What color was Stella’s shirt?

What color was Stella’s shirt?

Stella’s shirt was purple.

BUY yourself a GREAT answer!

Responding to open-ended questions:

Borrow words from the question

Encompasses “The Six Magic Steps”

Gives the reader the gift wanted

Scaffolds answer for struggling students

Provides a basis for expansion for gifted students

Use transition words with your details

Best gift ever! Easy to understand Sequenced Deluxe model Product Features

Bundle Includes: • Nintendo Wii Console with Wii Remote

Plus & NunChuk - Black • Wii Sports & Wii Sports Resort • Wii Fit Plus • Wii Balance Board Gaming System Compatibility: Nintendo Wii Warranty Description: 90 Day Limited Manufacturer Warranty

Your closing should match your beginning

Gift wrapped with a bow!

BUY Example 2

Borrow words from the prompt.

Use transition words with details to support your answer. #3Your closing should match your beginning.

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BUY example 1

BUY Example 3

Circle, underline, count, and check (CUCC) is a strategy to help when reading to perform a task or answering a question with multiple parts.CUCCa strategy for being sure to follow directions or answer all parts of a question

The first step in CUCC is to:

Circle the direction or question word(s). The direction word is the action the directions wish you to perform. Question words are who, where, what, why, etc.

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The second step in CUCC is to:

Underline the important word(s). Think of a toddler or a “caveman.” Telegraph talk. Some people may need more underlined than others.

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The third step in CUCC is to:

Count the direction or question words.This tells you how many parts you have to do or answer. By numbering them, you can keep track of what you have done.

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3

The fourth step in CUCC is to:

Check to be sure you have done all parts. Check off each numbered direction or quesitonword as you do it… no missed steps or questions!

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CUCC

Borrow words from the prompt.

Use transition words with details to support your answer. #3

Your closing should match your beginning.

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Reading Detective

Read Carefully! Non-fiction needs to be read more slowly.

Read the question and answer it in your mind first! Don’t even look at the choices yet.

Read each answer choice. Get rid of the 2 Bad Guys! You are left with:

The Imposter who is trying to trick you to think he’s the right answer

The Good Guy who IS the right answer Go back to the text & find the EVIDENCE! Don’t

guess! Only change an answer if you find the evidence to do so.

Example Reading Detective

Our reading teachers gathered us here today to: A. learn about karate B. learn how to use library resources C. learn how to be effective test takers D. learn how to make a delicious

meatball sub

PMI Reflection

Record thoughts on what is Positive (+) Minus (-) Intriguing (?)

Share with a neighbor

Thank you!

“It is amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.”

That’s why educators are amazing- we are always learning from one another!

Thank you for sharing and helping our children!

Bibliography

Barrett, Judi. 2008. Never Take a Shark to the Dentist (and other things not to do). New York: Atheneum.

Darling, Kathy. 1996. Rain Forest Babies. New York: Walker and Company.

Goodman, Amy. “Get A.C.T.I.V.E.: Engaging Middle School Readers with Text.” Voices from the Middle, Volume 11, number 1, September 2003.

Hall, Donald. 1994. I Am the Dog, I Am the Cat. New York: Dial books.

Harvey, Stephanie and Goudvis, Anne. 2007. Strategies that Work second edition. Portland:

Stenhouse. Heibert, Elfreida H. Ph.D. 2003. Quick Reads.

Parsippany,NJ: Modern Curriculum Press.

Bibliography

Miller, Debbie. 2002. Reading with Meaning:Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades. Portland: Stenhouse.

Polacco, Patricia. 2002. When Lightning Comes in a Jar. New York: Philomel Books.

Root, Phyllis. 1996. Aunt Nancy and Old Man Trouble . Cambridge: Candlewick Press.

Silverstein, Shel. 1961. Uncle Shelby’s ABZ Book. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc.

Van Allsburg, Chris. 1986. The Stranger. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

Van Allsburg, Chris. 1993. The Sweetest Fig. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.