While there is no shortage of articles, literatire, and resources that address reading comprehension and the use of innovation to help with reading comprehension, it was both tasking and time consuming to sort through. However, I was able to find a few that sparked both interest and excitement within me. One author Tabatha Dobson Scharlac who wrote START Comprehending: Student and Teachers Actively Reading Text reminded me of the importance of modeling for students and scaffolding instruction. The article outlines in detail eight comprehension strategies while teaching and reading aloud in the classroom. For these strategies to be successful and productive students, need to be able "to move the student to the metacognitive level of operations so that he or she is able to transfer this strategy to other settings once we are no longer providing support." The scaffolding includes steps throughout the reading process. Before reading, students are to predict and infer. During the reading, students visualize, make connections and questioning. After reading, then students demonstrate their comprehension by identifying the main idea, summarizing the reading passage/text, reflect and check their predictions and make a judgment. The students complete a two page ART (Actively Reading Text) of Comprehension Recording Sheet. The Recording sheet uses sticky notes to write or illustrate eight responses to each of the following titled boxes on the sheet: In this chapter, I think... In my mind I... This reminds me of... I wonder... I think the most important thing... In ten words or less... After reading the chapter my original prediction... My favorite part of this chapter... While the recording sheet specifies a chapter within a book, I can see how it could be modified and used for students reading a shorter reading passage or text. I believe the strategies would be helpful for students to generalize and apply in other academic subject areas that require reading passages, book or chapters (e.g., Science, Social Studies, etc.).
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Pence, Roger D.
3/17/2019 02:24:31 pm
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Alexis Stepney
3/18/2019 12:52:27 pm
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