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Lesson 6.4: Comprehension Strategies

Focus: Understand the importance of teaching students comprehension strategies and how to plan and implement comprehension strategy lessons.

Prior to the Collaboration Group Meeting

1. Reflection Journal

Write in your reflection journal prior to the Collaboration Group meeting. You are to respond weekly in your journal, reflecting on your learning, observation, questions, and personal connections. Your reflections need to be at least 250 words. You may choose how to format your journal, though you may want to consider the following as you write:

    • What are some new understandings you made this week as a result of the work for this lesson and your work with your students?
    • How has this new understanding influenced your current practice?

Bring your reflection journal to the weekly Collaboration Group meeting, and prepare to share your entries.

2. Readings

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  1. Read Put Reading First (pp. 48-57) making note of key concepts.
  2. Read Starting Out Right (pp. 70, 96, and 110-117). Make notes about the development of comprehension at the kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade level.
  3. Read How to Teach the Comprehension Strategies, and think about how you can teach one or more of the strategies to a group of children.
  4. Read Comprehension Strategies With Think Aloud Phrases.

3. Classroom Application

During the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. The facilitator leads the Collaboration Group in:

    • Sharing reflection journal entries.
    • Discussing Put Reading First (pp. 48-57) and the key concepts each participant noted.
    • Discussing Starting Out Right (pp. 70, 96, 110-117) and what is unique about comprehension development at the kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade level.
    • Sharing an overview of the comprehension lesson taught and comments from the Comprehension Strategy Debriefing Form.
    • Discussing Comprehension Strategies With Think Aloud Phrases. Discuss which strategies are particularly important to the students they work with and why.
    • Discussing how the students in general are doing in comprehension in their entity, including the successes and the challenges.

  2. Determine the facilitator, recorder, timekeeper, date, time, and location for the next Collaboration Group meeting.

After the Collaboration Group Meeting

  1. Email to the instructor a copy of the lesson you planned and the Comprehension Strategy Debriefing Form. Send your assignment(s) to the instructor as an attachment to an email message. Be sure to include your name, date, location, and title on the documents. Also, include your name and lesson title in the file names, for example, moses_lesson_plan and moses_strategydebriefing_form.
  2. The recorder emails the Collaboration Group notes to the instructor and places a copy in the Collaboration Group Notebook.
  3. The timekeeper emails the attendance to the instructor.