COMPREHENSION INSTRUCTION

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COMPREHENSION INSTRUCTION

• Citrus Literacy, Leaders, and Learners
• Developed by Becky Smith, David Jackson, and
  Debra Stanley

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Literacy is

• Listening
• Viewing
• Speaking
• Thinking using multiple symbol systems
• Reading
• Writing
• Expressing

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Daily Non-negotiables

• Maintain a print-rich classroom
• Use the seven processes of literacy
• Read to and with students
• Teach/model/practice
• strategies of expert readers and writers

• Require independent reading with accountability
• Instruct phonics phonemic awareness for K-1,
  and for others who have not reached mastery

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Comprehension

• The National Reading Panel sites that
  comprehension is an active, interactive,
  strategic process that is critical to the
  development of reading.

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What do expert readers do?

• Predict
• Clarify
• Visualize
• Question
• Connect
• Summarize
• Evaluate

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How do we get there?

• Expert teachers introduce strategies, explain
  their purpose, model their use, and provide time
  for students to practice until the students use
  them independently. (Schwartz, 1997)

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These are the strategies
Predicting Clarifying
Summarizing Questioning
Visualizing Connecting
Evaluating Use graphic organizers
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This is the framework

• Before Reading
• During Reading
• After Reading

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Before Reading Strategies

• Clarify
• vocabulary
• text structure
• purpose
• Connect
• background knowledge
• Question
• Predict
• With graphic organizers

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During Reading Strategies

• Visualize
• Question
• Predict, clarify, predict, clarify
• Evaluate
• comprehension
• making connections
• Summarize
• begin with small chunks of text
• With graphic organizers

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After Reading Strategies

• Summarize
• key points
• Connect
• ideas
• Evaluate
• text
• personal extensions beyond the text
• Question further
• With graphic organizers

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Narrative/Expository cards

• Before
• During
• After

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3-2-1 Wrap Up