Six Essential Comprehension Strategies

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Six Essential Comprehension Strategies

Essential Thinking Strategies:

Essential Thinking Strategies Connecting: Self/Text/World Predicting/Anticipating Summarizing/Concluding Questioning/Monitoring Imaging/Inferring Evaluating/Applying

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Month Comprehension Focus August Connect September Connect/Monitor October Summarize November Infer December Question January Visualize February Predict March Evaluate April All May All Connect: Self/Text/World Predict/Anticipate Summarize/Conclude Question/Monitor Image/Infer Evaluate/Apply

Connections: This reminds me of …:

Connections: This reminds me of …

Connections: This reminds me of …:

Connections: This reminds me of …

Connections: This reminds me of …:

Connections: This reminds me of …

Predicting/Anticipating:

Predicting/Anticipating

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A shrew? What’s a shrew?? Shrews eat up to THREE times their weight daily.

NONFICTION:

NONFICTION Before Nonfiction After Chlorophyll is green. Stoma allow oxygen to exit through the topside of leaves. Photosynthesis is a process that changes oxygen into sugar.

NONFICTION:

NONFICTION Before Sequencing After French/Indian War Civil War War of 1812

Prove It!:

Prove It! I think ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ will happen. My prediction was correct. My prediction was incorrect. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________actually happened.

Exclusion Brainstorming :

Exclusion Brainstorming Choose three words that you think will not be in the text. Why? fish fossil trees rafts sediments debris vacation Colorado plates plants

Inclusion Brainstorming :

Inclusion Brainstorming What are some words that you might find in this text. Why?

Summarizing/Concluding:

Summarizing/Concluding

Summarizing/Concluding :

Summarizing/Concluding 5 W’s and H Strategy Who: (Main Characters) What: (Problem) When: (Setting) Where: (Setting) Why: (Inference or Comprehension) How: (How was the problem solved?)

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By: Howie Schneider

Summarizing:

Summarizing Who: Chewy Louie What: Chewed everything When: All the time Where: Everywhere Why: He was a puppy How: He grew up.

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Let’s try a 16 word summary. Chewy Louie chewed everything in sight until he grew up. ,a puppy, What kind of puppy? ,a little black puppy, How did he chew? happily his Write a concise summary … and then STRETCH it out.

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Chewy Louie, a little black puppy, happily chewed everything in his sight until he grew up. Sixteen Word Summary

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Plot Exposition Rising Action Climax Falling Action Resolution

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Questioning

Rivet:

Rivet h i d i n g l i l a c n o t e s s

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Guess the Covered Word Glaciers: Nature’s Icy Caps Written by: David L. Harrison Illustrated by: Cheryl Nathan Published by: Boyds Mill Press

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A glacier thousands of feet thick weighs millions of tons. Its mighty force gouges valleys deeper and wider. It flattens forests and grinds boulders into powder. As the glacier creaks along, it polishes stone and leaves deep grooves like marks of monster claws.

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Let’s Dream, Martin Luther King, Jr.! By: Peter and Connie Roop Headings Questions Martin Luther King, Jr., is Born When was Martin Luther King, Jr., born? Mike King, Jr., Gets a New Name Why did Mike King, Jr., get a new name? What was it? Martin Learns More Lessons What lessons did Martin learn? Martin Learns a Bitter Lesson What bitter lesson did Martin learn? How was it different from the previous lessons learned? Martin’s First Sermon What was Martin’s first sermon about? Martin Becomes a Leader What character traits did Martin possess to make him a leader? Martin Makes a Difference How did Martin make a difference?

NKQ: New, Knew, Questions ERT: Every Read To QAR: Question-Answer Relationships :

NKQ: New, Knew, Questions ERT: Every Read To QAR: Question-Answer Relationships

Imaging/Inferring :

Imaging/Inferring

Evaluating/Applying:

Evaluating/Applying

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Essential Thinking Strategies:

Essential Thinking Strategies Connecting: Self/Text/World Predicting/Anticipating Summarizing/Concluding Questioning/Monitoring Imaging/Inferring Evaluating/Applying