Hello all, from a snowy Maryland!
We had an unanticipated 7 inches of snow yesterday...and it is gorgeous
this morning...although the roads are quite dangerous, keeping me from church!
As I have a few quiet minutes to reflect on our listserv, we have been
quiet of late...and there has not
HI all,
We were lucky (this time) to miss the snow but it has been really
frigid here in RI.
I have been noticing this year more than any other that student are
having a very hard time explaining or showing what they believe to be
the main idea of what they've read. When they can't do this,
Comprehension strategies: what is the state of comprehension instruction in
your school? How well is comprehension being taught? What can teacher leaders
do to help improve practices?
I am thrilled to reply to this question. My small district in Northern
California was an early comprehension
Will you share what is on the question stem posters?
Patk
On Jan 30, 2010, at 4:58 PM, rr1...@aol.com wrote:
as well question stem posters mandated by the county
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I would like to know as well.
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From: Patricia Kimathi pkima...@earthlink.net
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What about main idea in non fiction. I can see purpose or a guiding question
helping here as well. I've been talking to my students about getting the gist
of a short piece, such as a paragraph. I recently viewed a video about a
teacher demonstrating this strategy with her students that I
In a message dated 1/31/2010 2:24:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Judy
P.S. All your questions are excellent. May I reply to more than one?
Judy...OF COURSE!
Jennifer
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Judy,
Thank you so much for your responses. I wish that we had similar
minded people in our district, but we don't. Although our current
Executive Director is leaving and will be replaced with a former
principal from our district, I really don't see the philosophy changing
much. I am not
Rosie,
How much reading are the kids actually doing out of a 90 minute
literacy block? That would be more valuable than stations made of busy
work. Their product could be a response to what they've read.
Sue
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Sue
Main idea...always a struggle for my kids as are any kinds of big picture
questions. One thing I have found helpful is to help kids consider your
purpose for reading a particular text. What is most important in the text is
then what suits your purpose as a reader. I think that the idea
This relates more to decoding, but that also ties into comprehension.
I have had both gifted and remedial students (I run an independent
learning center) do a teach back activity, in which they selected a
tricky word from a recently self-selected nonfiction book.
Then they explained to the
I love, love, love the GIST Strategy as presented by Janet Allen. Teaching
kids to summarize by boiling a paragraph down to 15 words or less, while having
these important discussions about determining importance, really seems to work.
I have been successful working with first graders (in a
Judy,
I totally agree with you, however, it is not up to me. My principal is
usually pretty flexible, but she is currently out on medical leave. I
agree that reading is the key. They do read on their own-most of
them-as the majority of them have made their AR goal for the nine
weeks. I
Thanks Elisa! It was interesting.
Sue
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Rosie, you can use the HM selections, just switch up the comprehension
strategies so that they make sense. I hate the way HM tries to make you cover 2
strategies or 1 skill and 1 strategy for every selection. Narrow it down to 1
immediately--just choose the one you think is most important for
What about main idea in non fiction.
We did just this in our reading clinic with struggling readers for a 6 week
period. We focused on determining importance - more directly what was relevant
information versus what was interesting. It is a very difficult concept for
kids to figure out, but
hi... I am s interested in what the responses will be. Please
share...thanks
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Hi Lori,
Can you describe your process with first graders?
Thank you!
Elisa
Elisa Waingort
Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual
Dalhousie Elementary
Calgary, Canada
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GIST is generally 15 words or less in summary statement. Since the sentences
are generally shorter, it looks more like sentence combination. Great way to
introduce conjunctions.
Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist
Broken Bow, NE
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