Learning
Overview of Comprehension
strategies AiZ Learning Leaders
Session 7
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Reviewing between session activity of session 6
Reflection on practices, skills and strategies needed by students and teachers.
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Agenda
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Between Session Action What professional reading did you do in
the past two weeks?Why were these chosen?What did you learn from them?
Discuss the data you passed on to your colleagues What strategies or skills did you discuss?Did you trial a different teaching
practice?
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Using the data sources Explored in the first and 6th session.
The evidence showed:-
Making inferences Infer
Working out meaning of words and phrases Context clues
Making links between directly stated ideas in a text
Making connections
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Difficult
Most difficult
Learning
What tools did we use to strengthen the item knowledge?
VELS Standards, Progression Points, Continuum
Professional reading variety of resources
How can this information be carried forward?
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Reviewing and discussing your data to sustain teaching strategies
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How was the data used?
How did you support the staff to develop an understanding of the use of data?
What did you find were the areas of concern?
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Learning
How can this be achieved?
Taking into account...
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3 Factors that Influence Comprehension
1.1. The Student
2.2. The Text - (reading, writing, speaking and listening)
3.3. The Purpose / The Focus Explicit teaching
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Explicit teaching of…
Routines / ProcessWhat does this mean? How does having a
routine support learning? Discuss
Individual StrategiesWhat strategies are in place and what
strategies will come next? Discuss
Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate = e5
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Learning
ACTIVITY (Modelling)
Text Structure and Features
Essential Elements Getting Knowledge
Ready Vocabulary Paraphrasing Summarising Reading aloud /
Visualising Questioning / questions Reviewing / reflection
Explicit teaching across the
strategies for comprehension
Constructing the meaning
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Whole group discussion
Learning
Essential Elements to develop mastery of comprehension in the three issues to improve comprehension Getting Knowledge Ready Vocabulary Paraphrasing Summarising Reading aloud / Visualising Questioning / questions Reviewing / reflection
What needs to be taught to improve…?
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Learning
What needs to be taught to improve...? Make links between directly stated ideas in a text.
Work out the meaning of phrases (words) in context.
Infer messages in any communication.
What ideas can be found using the resources? Strategies That Work – Harvey and Goudvis Teaching Comprehension 6 – 9 LIST ON THE TEMPLATE
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Getting Knowledge Ready / Prediction /
Prior Knowledge / Inferring What have you found?
Review Professional Reading
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Vocabulary Building Vocabulary
Word splashWord lists – class or personal
Applying word knowledge in reading and writing?
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Visualising (out of reading aloud or reading to)
Visualising has 3 levels:- Context LevelSentence LevelWord Level (vocabulary)
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Questions and Questioning
What teaching strategies are used to engage?Importance of wait timeListen to the student and don’t repeat.
Levels of questioning Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions
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Paraphrasing and Summarising Finding the key words
Note takingRetelling
Building summarising skills delete, substitute, keep
Hint: - Use known texts to develop paraphrasing and summarising skills – concentrate on the learning of the new strategy not the content and the strategy.
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Learning
Online Resources
Inanimate Alice
On line Library
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