Email: judithearaujo gmail. Please specify which page s you would like. You may edit pages, but please cite me. Please no donations from Waltham, MA! I made this website for you. Please join me on LinkedIn. Judy Araujo, M. How to Teach Reading by Mrs. Skip to content. Introduce the skill in context and model application of the skill. Guide the students in using the skill. Teach a new reading strategy: 12 Comprehension Strategies or Reading Strategies.
Discuss illustrations, captions, headings. Students make predictions. The teacher introduces the new vocabulary. All students then read at their own pace to a designated page. While prediction begins with the mostly pre-reading activities outlined above, there will be ample opportunities for the student reader to make further predictions throughout the reading of the book too.
For example, it is good practice to ask the students, or encourage them to ask themselves, prediction type questions at the end of a paragraph, section, or chapter. Working on using prediction strategies in guided reading encourages the student to read closely for inferences and other clues that will indicate the journey the text may take.
It also encourages the student to pay close attention to the content of the text as they read. This kind of holistic approach to reading improves overall comprehension of a text. At any point during the reading of the text, you can instruct the students to stop and think about where this story is going.
Students can record their predictions on their sheet, as well as the reasons for thinking this. This activity can serve well as a supplementary reading activity on days when the group is not scheduled to read with the class teacher. In terms of guided reading, clarification refers to first identifying the difficult parts of the text, before making sense of them through a variety of clarification techniques. These techniques can be as simple as looking up a word in a dictionary.
There are other tools available to students, however. Sometimes it is better for the student to use other techniques to work out the meaning, such as employing contextual clues. Drills employing sentence starters are a great way to effectively train our students to clarify and question and to help internalise these strategies.
Begin with the clarification prompts to help students identify the areas of the text they are unsure of, before moving to the question prompts to help them begin to work out the meaning and significance within the text. When the students have identified the vocabulary, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and sections that are giving them trouble, they can then move on to forming questions using the following question prompts:.
These prompts help students to identify more closely the source of their confusion when reading a text and to learn to ask for assistance. In the process of receiving an answer to their questions, they begin to broaden their understanding of a range of techniques they can later employ in independent reading to clarify the meaning of a text for themselves. In the context of guided reading, it can be helpful for students to work together to form the questions to ask their teacher.
Rather than directly answering the questions for the group, however, teachers would do well to encourage the students to work towards finding the answers for themselves, as this not only helps knowledge retention but improves their reading independence. Summarizing is an important skill for students to develop.
It helps students to identify the most important parts of a text or story and to learn to ignore irrelevant details and information too. Students who practice summarizing learn to integrate the details and the main ideas of a text in a meaningful way. Summarization is useful for fiction and nonfiction genres alike. A simple way to encourage your students to summarize a story is to ask them to paraphrase it in their own words. As it will be highly unlikely they will have memorized the entire story word for word, paraphrasing the story will allow you to assess their overall understanding of what they have read.
If they have photocopies of the story, you may wish to have them underline or highlight the information related to the above questions in different colors and then ask them to retell the story in their own words after they have done this. My students keep a vocabulary notebook and all of their vocabulary work goes in their notebook. I collect from each group on a different day to do a quick check of their vocab section of their reading notebooks.
Vocabulary activiies that I love to have students complete are word ladders from Tim Rasinski. You can check them out HERE. Students also work on comprehension for about 20 minutes. To work on comprehension, my students work with their independent reading books and comprehension pages or on close reading. They read the same high interest passage for three days.
Students have a different focus for each of the repeated readings and work on a response page to enhance their comprehension. Getting Started with Book Clubs. Find all of my favorite reading workshop materials in my Amazon shop. Please note that this post does contain affiliate links. This means that if you purchase an item mentioned in this post I may receive a small commission. You may also enjoy:. Save Back. Grades PreK—K , 1—2 , 3—5 , 6—8.
Establish Routines to Foster Independence Establishing routines at the beginning of the year is crucial. I show students what reading partners look like and sound like. Dive Into Instruction Divide your lesson into segments: before, during, and after reading. Students should not read round-robin, as they used to do. Instead, make your way around the group to work one-on-one with each student for a few minutes. Different students will need different strategies—some may need support using first-letter cues, while others may need help monitoring their comprehension see sidebar.
Monitoring Are you right? Does that make sense? Does it look right? Check it with your finger. Decoding Say the first part and check the picture. What would look right and make sense? Can you break it into parts? Do you know another word that looks like this one?
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