Comprehension & Fluency

Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper: 

Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper Dr. Lori Elliott SDE

Thinking Strategies: 

Thinking Strategies Sensory Images Making Connnections Questioning Drawing Inferences Determining Importance Synthesis Fix Up Strategies

Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind: 

Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind Predictions Reactions Expression Can’t Stop Reading

Readers unable to create images while reading: 

Readers unable to create images while reading Lack of Interest in Reading Unable to Describe/ Retell No Emotions To Text

Strategies to Help with Sensory Images: 

Strategies to Help with Sensory Images

Mind Maps: 

Mind Maps

Making Connections: 

Making Connections Text to Text Text to Self Text to World

Alphaboxes: 

Alphaboxes A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z LAVA ISLAND MAGMA

PowerPoint Presentation: 

Before Reading Statement After Reading If you hopped like a frog, you could jump from home plate to 1 st base in one leap. If you were as strong as an ant, you could lift a bus. If you jumped like a flea, you could land on Lady Liberty’s torch. If you grew as fast in your 1 st nine months as you did in the nine months before you were born, you would be as big as an elephant.

Questioning: 

Questioning Questioning helps the reader clarify ideas and deepen understanding. I wonder… Why? What if? What does this mean? Does this make sense?

Location of Answers: 

Location of Answers In the Book In the Reader’s Head Author Gives Clues Another Book Another Person

Thick and Thin Questions: 

Thick and Thin Questions

Think Alouds/Sticky Notes: 

Think Alouds /Sticky Notes

Drawing Inferences: 

Drawing Inferences Drawing Inferences is the process of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.

Use cartoons: 

Use cartoons

Determining Importance : 

Determining Importance Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.

Main Idea Sticky Notes: 

Main Idea Sticky Notes Main Idea Details My Response

Everyone Read To…: 

Everyone Read To… Everyone Read to Find Out…. Great One for PowerPoint !

Synthesis: 

Synthesis “Synthesis is about organizing the different pieces to create a mosaic, a meaning, a beauty, greater than the sum of each shiny piece.” – Ellin Keene

Summary Frame: 

Summary Frame ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ______

Comprehension Frame: 

Comprehension Frame We read ______________. The most important thing about this text is ______________________________. The reader can use this information to help them _________________________. The reader will also learn about ________________ and _____________ in this text.

Helpful Resources: 

Helpful Resources Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis Linda Hoyt Scholastic

Fluency: 

Fluency “The ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)

Ways to Improve Fluency: 

Ways to Improve Fluency Repeated readings of familiar texts Partner Reading Shared Reading Listening to Books on Tape Readers Theatre Reading Series Books