What is CSI

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What is CSI?

• How do I teach it?

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Comprehension Strategy Instruction

• Incorporates the gradual release of
  responsibility model
• Focuses on comprehension strategy instruction
  through explicit modeling use of anchor lessons
  and anchor charts and ample opportunities to
  practice both dependently and independently.
• Devotes longer blocks to reading

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What are the Comprehension Strategies?

• Monitoring for Meaning
• Using Schema (background knowledge)
• Also called Connecting
• Asking Questions
• Creating Mental and Emotional Images
• Also called Visualizing
• Predicting and Inferring
• Determining Importance
• Analyzing and Synthesizing

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Explicit Teaching

Teachers must explicitly teach the language of
thought. -Ellin Keene, Residency, LES, 9/06
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Making Thinking Visible

• Modeling, modeling, and more modeling
• Think-alouds
• Sticky notes
• Notebook entries
• Smart Thinking logs
• Sketching visualizations
• Written responses

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Whats Essential?

• Teachers explicitly teach the cognitive
  strategies most commonly used by proficient
  readers, writers, speakers and listeners.
• Instruction in Comprehension Strategies is
  focused, in-depth, intensive, long term, and
  repeated throughout a childs school life in
  progressively more difficult situations.
• Comprehension strategies vary only slightly for
  different age groups.

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Creating a Community of Learners

• Create a community of learners by modeling for
  students what dialogue with the text and others
  looks and sounds like.
• Join a community of learners where you can peer
  coach and share.

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Creating the physical environment

• Create cozy reading nooks
• Design areas for sharing and conferencing
• Purchase and organize collections of nonfiction
  and fiction in non-traditional displays

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Libraries

• Students have access to 9,121 books in our
  schools library media center
• Each classroom has an extensive library spanning
  the range from leveled fiction to award-winning
  nonfiction titles that match the science and
  social studies units for that grade level.

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Why use picture books?

• Students need to apply the strategy at the
  listening level before applying it at the reading
  level.
• Rich, evocative language
• Complex, multi-faceted themes
• Imagery

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Gradual Release of Responsibility
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What does it look and sound like?
1. I do you watch.
2. I do you help.
3. You do I help.
4. You do I watch.
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Lesson Plan

• Create anticipatory set
• Connect to prior knowledge
• Model I do you watch.
• Think aloud
• I do you help.
• You do I help.
• You do I watch.
• We reflect.

• Connect
• Inform
• Practice
• Apply
• Reflect

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Proportion of time per step
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Connecting

• Effective readers use what they know to
  understand what they ready by
• Connecting the text to their personal experiences
  (Text to Self)
• Connecting the text to other texts they have read
  (Text to Text)
• Connecting the text to world events and history
  (Text to World)

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Connection Exercise

• The questions that p___________ face as they
  raise ch__________ from in________ to adult life
  are not easy to an__________. Both fa________
  and m________ can become concerned when health
  problems such as co________ arise any time after
  the e________ stage to later in life. Experts
  recommend that young ch________ should have
  plenty of s________ and nutritious food for
  healthy growth. B________ and g________ should
  not share the same b________ or even sleep in the
  same r________. They may be afraid of the
  d________.

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Hints

• Poultrymen
• chickens
• incubation
• answer

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The Answers

• farmers
• merchants
• coccidiosis
• egg
• chicks
• sunshine
• banties
• geese
• barnyard
• roost
• dark

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Questioning

• Good readers ask questions before, during, and
  after reading. They ask
• Essential Questions
• Elaborating Questions
• Clarification Questions
• Hypothetical Questions
• Strategic Questions
• Probing Questions
• Unanswerable Questions
• Provocative Questions
• Planning Questions

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Visualizing

• Research shows that proficient readers make
  meaning by creating their own set of unique
  mental images to accompany the text poor
  readers, on the other hand, have more difficulty
  visualizing and as a result become frustrated and
  disengaged with the text (Beers 2002).

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Dual Encoding Systems

• Students who visualize what they have read or
  heard read aloud encode information from the text
  in both verbal and nonverbal formats.
• When both systems are activated to process
  information, retention and recall increase.

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Questions?
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Engagement

• Comprehension strategy instruction is a way to
  break students passivity and turn reading into a
  full contact process.

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Next Steps

• Tap existing resources
• Schools who have implemented CSI
• Upcoming professional development
• Books, articles, web sites and more
• Help your staff become action researchers
• Plan direct instruction in CSI
• Gradually release responsibility
• Celebrate and share successes

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Must Read Bibliography

• Harvey, Stephanie and Anne Goudvis. 2000.
  Strategies that Work. Markham, Ontario Pembroke
  Publishers Limited.
• Miller, Debbie. 2002. Reading with Meaning
  Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades.
  New York Stenhouse Publishing.
• Pearson, P. David, J.A. Dole, G. G. Duffy, and L.
  R. Roehler. 1992. Developing Expertise in
  Reading Comprehension What Should Be Taught and
  How Should It Be Taught? in What Research Has to
  Say to the Teacher of Reading, ed. J. Farstup and
  S. J. Samuels, 2nd ed. Newark, DE International
  Reading Association.
• Jim Cummins (2007). Pedagogies for the Poor?
  Realigning Reading Instruction for Low-Income
  Students With Scientifically Based Reading
  Research. Educational Researcher, 36(9), 564-572. 
  Retrieved February 24, 2008, from ProQuest
  Education Journals database. (Document
  ID 1427015591).

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Must See Videos/DVDs

• Happy Reading!
• Strategy Instruction in Action
• Thoughtful Reading
• The Joy of Conferring
• Think Nonfiction
• Read, Write and Talk
• Looking into Literature Circles

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Must Visit Websites

• The Reading Lady
• Guide to Comprehension Strategies
• Study Guide to Strategies that Work
• The Wisconsin Learning Network
• ProQuest Professional Educational Journal
  Database