Anchor Charts to Support Comprehension Strategies

By Mary Malloy &

Katrina Purdue

Professional DevelopmentIRT training from Cindy and

Therese

Embedded Midvale PD• Year 1- Primary Literacy

Notebook

• Year 2- Comprehension Strategies with Debbie Miller

• Year 3- Comprehension revisited + writing

Resources

• Literacy Room Books • Book Room Titles for Book Club

Curriculum Maps

FI RST GRADE

LI TERACY CURRI CULUM MAP

MONTH WRI TI NG* COMPREHENSI ON

STRATEGI ES**

September Writing Sample Book 1: Launching the Writing

Workshop

Literary Elements (Little Yellow Chicken) (Corduroy)

October Book 2: Small Moments:

Personal Narrative Writing Making Connections:

T- S, T- T, T- W (Chrysanthemum)

November Book 3: Writing f or Readers:

Teaching Skills and Strategies

Predicting

December Book 4: The Craf t of Revision I nferring

J anuary

Assessing Book 5: Authors as Mentors

Review/ Assess PLAA Comprehension Strategies:

February Book 7: Poetry Creating Mental Images

March Book 6: Nonfiction Writing Asking Questions

April Book 6 - continued Determining I mportance/

Non Fiction

May

Teacher or Student Choice Assessing

Reviewing and Assessing PLAA Comprehension Strategies

*Ref ers to Units of Study f or Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins **Order of comprehension strategy instruction is based on Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition by Keene and Zimmermann, page 34 . Genres are presented throughout the year.

Once the strategies are introduced they are reinf orced throughout the year.

DRAFT

SECOND GRADE LI TERACY CURRI CULUM MAP

MONTH WRI TI NG* COMPREHENSI ON

STRATEGI ES**

September Writing Sample Book 1: Launching the Writing

Workshop

Literary Elements/Retelling (The Man, the boy and the Donkey)

October Book 2: Small Moments:

Personal Narrative Writing Making Connections:

T- S, T- T, T- W (A Quilt f or Kristi)

November Book 3: Writing f or Readers:

Teaching Skills and Strategies

Predicting/ I nferring

December Book 4: The Craf t of Revision Questioning

J anuary

Assessing Book 5: Authors as Mentors

Review/ Assess PLAA Comprehension Strategies:

February Book 7: Poetry Creating Mental Images

March Book 6: Nonfiction Writing Determining I mportance

April Book 6 - continued Synthesizing

May

Teacher or Student Choice Assessing

Reviewing and Assessing PLAA Comprehension Strategies

*Ref ers to Units of Study for Primary Writing by Lucy Calkins **Order of comprehension strategy instruction is based on Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition by Keene and Zimmermann, page 34 . Genres are presented throughout the year. Once the strategies are introduced they are reinforced throughout the year.

DRAFT

Implementation

• Modeling(Anchor Charts)

• Shared Practice (Anchor Charts)

• Guided Practice (notebooks)

• Independent Practice (Book Club, notebooks)

Monitoring Comprehension

Connections

Book Club

• Heterogeneous Small Groups

• Adult reads book aloud to group

• Each child is given a copy of the text

• Students reflect and use post-its to track their thinking

• Students initiate discussions

• Follow-up reflection in reading journals

Book Club Introduction

Book Club

Book Club

• First Session • Second Session

Inferring

Questioning

Book Club

Mental Imaging

Mental Imaging Texts

Book Club Revisited

Determining Importance

Determining Importance

Determining Importance with Fables

Book Club

• magazines • poetry

Synthesizing

Synthesizing

Synthesizing with Allen Say

Synthesizing

Summary of Book Club

Evolved over the year• Added to format (coding, one main idea)

• Changed genres (poetry and nonfiction)

• Developed oral language• Students problem solved around

group dynamics• Volunteers and students became

more comfortable with format

Thanks to the 2nd graders who deepened our thinking!