Activating: Activate prior knowledge before and during readingmake connections between past knowledge and new information.
Comprehension strategies?
Inferring:connect clues the author has written in the text with what was left unsaid by relating key details to past experiences and prior knowledgedone mainly in fictional literature
Comprehension= Understanding
ComprehensionStrategies
Monitoring/clarifying: Monitoring- pause during and after reading to think about whether or not the reader is comprehendingClarifying- stop to fix or define something that is affecting understanding
How often do we use them?
Questioning:Ask questions to process key ideas within a textCan be used when inferring or summarizing in a text
Everytime we read!
ComprehensionStrategies
Summarizing: Restating what was read in readers own wordsShows that comprehension occurred while reading and helps obtain main idea of text
So... what are some these strategies?
Visualizing/Organizing:Visualizing- reader pictures the story and what is happening in their mindOrganizing- reader utilizes graphic organizers to process information within a text
ReferencesMcEwan-Adkins, E. K. (2004). 7strategies of highly effective readers: Using cognitive research to boost K-8 achievement. Thousand Oaks,CA: Corwin Press.