Monitoring+One's+Own+Comprehension

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The following strategies are included to help students take ownership of their learning. Students need to be able to understand why they are reading, how to monitor their commitment to the reading, and be able to employ strategies to fix their reading when they are struggling with comprehension. As a teacher it is our job to make sure our students can perform these tasks outside of the classroom. The following is a list of some ideas to aid in this comprehension.

= Fall =

1. Academic Conversations*

 * Build students academic conversation skills.

2. Comprehension Target Talk*

 * Develop students ability to evaluate ideas about a text.

3. Discussion Starters*

 * The beginnings of different types of questions to aid students in developing meaningful questioning skills.

4. Genre Transformation*

 * Students monitor their comprehension by converting a text into a different genre.

= Winter =

1. Read Aloud Everything*

 * Reading aloud to students models how a text should be read.

2. Mental Multitasking Practice*

 * Students practice keeping tracks of many different facts to increase their comprehension of texts.

3. Multiple Intelligences Corners*

 * Understanding text through activities that are geared a different types of learning styles (visual, verbal, musical, etc.).

4. Observation and Feedback Record*

 * Teacher created rubric that tracks students understanding during class discussions.

= Spring =

1. Habit Stations*

 * Once you have taught the students a number of these strategies you can create stations around the room.

2. Read-Aloud Think-Aloud (RATA)*

 * Similar to 'Read Aloud Everything' the teacher begins by reading aloud, but also stops and thinks aloud any thoughts they have while reading.

3. Think-Aloud Hand Signals*

 * A kinesthetic version of the RATA to increase comprehension for hands-on learners.

4. Think-Aloud Note Grids*

 * Checklists for students to record their thoughts while being read to.

Monitoring One's Own Comprehension Assessment Checklist

 * Zwiers, Jeff. //Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12//. 2nd. Newark, DE: Intl Reading Assn, 2010. Print.


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