Camp Under the Stars at the Comprehension Campgrounds

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Camp Under the Stars at the Comprehension
Campgrounds

• June 2, 2009

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Child Activity

• Pick Book
• Write down unknown words

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Reflections

• Journals Fluency
• Daily Entry (Parent Left Side)
• Strategy Tried (at least 3 days)
• Amount of Time
• Personal Response (questions, concerns)
• Response / Feelings (Child Right Side)

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Literary
• Compare/Contrast
• Main Idea/Characters/Setting
• This paragraph is from the selection...What is
  the main idea of this paragraph? (MAY 2008)
• Genres
• The reading selection is a poem, fairy tale,
  story (MAY 2008)
• Authors Word Choice
• This is a sentence from the selection. I had
  butterflies in my stomach all morning. Now, it
  was almost my turn. My palms got sweaty as I
  waited. How do you think Rob is feeling? (MARCH
  2008)
• Theme

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Informational
• Text Features
• They did not know these changes were evidence of
  tiny plants and animals growing all around them.
  What does the word evidence mean? (text feature
  word bank) (MAY 2008)
• Essential Elements
• For thousands of years people did not know
  microbes existed. They were too small for them
  to see. Which question does this paragraph
  answer?
• Why couldnt people see microbes? Why did people
  want to see microbes? Why are microbes so small?
  (MAY 2008)
• Central Ideas and Details
• An important idea from the reading selection is
  that monkeys talk to each other. What detail
  from the selection supports this idea? (MARCH
  2005)

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Introduction - OAT

• OAT
• Reading Process
• Authors Purpose
• Entertain, Inform, Direct, Persuade
• Predictions
• Give another title for this reading selection.
  Use three examples from the selection to support
  your title (MARCH 2005)
• Conclusions
• Why does Joey take her pail with her in the car?
  (MARCH 2005)
• Summarize
• Respond to Questions

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Discussion

• Comprehension
• Adler, C.R. (2004). Seven strategies to teach
  students text comprehension. Readingrockets.
  Retrieved March 10, 2009, from http//www.readingr
  ockets.org/ article/3479?themeprint
• Monitor comprehension
• Reread if doesnt make sense
• Metacognition
• Think about reading before, during, after
• Graphic Organizers
• Answering questions
• Understand what was read
• Generating questions
• Higher-level thinking while reading
• Recognize story structure
• Characters, setting, events, problem, resolution
• Summarize
• Major parts break into smaller sections

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Discussion

• Strategies
• Who, What, Where Dice
• Graphic Organizers
• Comprehension Questions
• Blooms Taxonomy of Questioning
• Keyword Strategy
• Hangman

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Parent Child Activity

• Journals
• Weekly Triangle
• 3 Things Learned
• 2 Strategies to Try
• 1 Self-Challenge
• Discuss Strategies
• Choose 2
• Campout and Read!
• Child Choose book (keep), write unknown words
• Parent Use Strategies
• Previous strategies for phonics, vocabulary,
  fluency
• Choose where to sit and read ?
• Keep the book and schedule a testing time!