Collaboration

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Collaboration

• To work jointly with others or together
  especially in an intellectual endeavor

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Levels of Collaboration

• Cooperation
• Coordinating
• Collaboration

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How We See Collaboration

• Third Grade Teachers
• Fourth Grade Teachers
• Second Grade Teachers
• First Grade Teachers
• Your School

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Session Outcomes

• Define what collaboration is and what we are
  currently doing.
• Explore some commonly used comprehension
  monitoring strategies.
• Participants will engage is some comprehension
  strategies.

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National Reading Panel Report
Comprehension Monitoring Where students learn
how to be aware of their understanding of the
materials. Cooperative Learning Where students
learn reading strategies together. Use of graphic
and semantic organizers Where readers make
graphic representations of the material to assist
comprehension.
(National Reading Panel Summary 2000, 15)
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National Reading Panel Report

• Question answering
• Where readers answer questions posed by the
  teacher and receive immediate feedback.
• Question generation
• Where readers ask themselves about various
  aspects of the text.
• .

(National Reading Panel Summary 2000, 15)
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Reading Comprehension Defined

• Intentional thinking during which meaning is
  constructed through interactions between text and
  reader.
• (Harris and Hodges 1995, 207)

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Good Readers Are

• Purposeful
• Active
• Strategic
• Flexible

(Put Reading First 2001, 48-57)
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Vocabulary

• The blugy chinzels slottled prasily over the
  flubbish wub.
• What did the blugy chinzels do?
• Who slottled?
• Where did the chinzels slottle?
• How did the chinzels slottle?
• What kind of chinzels were they?
• What was flubbish?

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Vocabulary Importance

• Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to
  communicate effectively.
• Vocabulary is learned from context.
• Vocabulary is a progression
• I dont know, Im getting to know, I definitely
  know

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Readers Theater

• Curriculum-Based Readers Theatre
• Can correspond to curriculum standards
• Supports reading and increases fluency
• Allows students to read write and think across
  the curriculum
• Example Purposes for Reading

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Text Comprehension Instruction

• Monitoring comprehension
• Using graphic and semantic organizers
• Answering questions
• Generating questions
• Recognizing story structure

(Put Reading First 2001, 48-57)
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Reading Comprehension Strategies

• Predict
• Monitor/clarify
• Question
• Summarize
• Visualize
• Making use of prior knowledge
• Making inferences

(Put Reading First 2001, 48-57)
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Strategies For Reading Text

• Preview the text/predicting
• Build background knowledge
• Set purposes

Before Reading

• Check understanding
• Monitor comprehension
• Integrate new concepts

During Reading

• Summarize
• Evaluate the ideas
• Make applications

After Reading
Flood Lapp, 1992
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Comprehension Monitoring

• Its important to teach students to monitor and
  repair comprehension
• Track their thinking
• Notice when they lose focus
• Stop and go back
• Reread to enhance understanding
• Identify whats confusing
• Consciously select the best strategy

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Teaching Students to Monitor Comprehension

• Direct instruction
• Teaching
• Modeling
• Guided practice
• Application
• Cooperative learning
• Multiple-strategy instruction

(Put Reading First 2001, 48-57)
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Question

• Student generated
• Literal Who, what, where
• Inferential why, how, what if

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Question-Answer Relationship

• Teach the four types of questions
• Right there
• Think and search
• Author and you
• On your own
• Model how to analyze and answer questions
• Students practice

(Taffy Raphael, 1982)
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QARS

• Right There
• Think and Search

In The Text
Author and You On Your Own
In My Head
(Taffy Raphael, 1982)
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Right There
The answer is right in the text and usually easy
to find.
The words used to make up the question and the
answer are usually the same.
Answer The Civil War ended in 1865.
Question What year did the Civil War end?
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Think and Search
The answer is in the text, but you need to put
different parts together to answer it.
Words for the question and words for the answer
are not usually the same.
Question What are the primary organs of the
digestive system?
Answer The esophagus, stomach and intestines
make up the digestive system.
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Author and You
The answer is not in the text, but the text will
be used to find an answer.
Think of what you already know and link it to
what you know from the text. See how they fit
together.
Question Using the graph, explain why you think
there was a sharp dip in sales during 1991?
Answer I think 1991 sales were down because
there was less income made by households that
year.
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On My Own
The answer is not in the text so prior knowledge
and experiences must be used.
The question can be answered without having read
the text.
Question Why is it a good idea to conserve water?
Answer I think water should be conserved
because...
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QARs

• Lucy was kayaking down the Snake River.
• She was approaching the treacherous rapids.
• All of a sudden, she found herself in the cold
  swirling water.

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Question Answer Relationship

• Where was Lucy kayaking?
• Where are the treacherous rapids?
• Do you think Lucy will make it safely to shore?
  Why?
• What caused Lucy to fall into the water?

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Examples of QARS

• Common Sense An Anansi Tale
• Wodney Wat
• Other possibilities
• Wordless Picture Books
• Math and other curriculum areas

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Questions - Anansi

• What does Anansi think is the perfect hiding
  place for the common sense?
• How does Anansi feel when he hears someone
  laughing?
• What did the thick rope do to Anansis neck?
• Why would tying the calabash around his neck like
  a necklace be a foolish way for Anansi to climb
  the tree?

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Conscious Selection of Strategies

• Explicit teaching of strategies
• Teacher modeling and think aloud
• Students practice in cooperative groups
• Independent practice

Teach
Model
Apply
Practice
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Share Strategies You Use

• What is a comprehension strategy that you use?
• How do you find new strategies?

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3 2 1 Strategy

• Summarize some key ideas
• Rethink them in order to focus on those that one
  is most intrigued by
• Pose a question about what you still want to know

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Steps In the Strategy

• 3 Things You Found Out
• 2 Interesting Things
• 1 Question You Still Have

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Websites

• Reading comprehension
• Strategies for shared reading
• Websites that have audio speech
• Reading games
• Vocabulary
• Strategy Sources