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    Reading Comprehension: What Every Teacher Needs to Know
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    1. tjohnson82 26 Apr 2018
      ncriticalliteracy,anapproachthatpromotesdeepercomprehension,readersmovebeyondpassivelyacceptingthetext’smessagetoquestion,examine,ordisputethepowerrelationsthatexistbetweenreadersandauthors.Thesereadersponderwhattheauthorwantsthemtobelieve,takeaction,andpromotefairnessbetweenpeople.Criticalliteracyfocusesontheproblemanditscomplexity.Itaddressesissuesofpowerandpromotesreflection,action,andtransformation(Freire,1970).

      This reminds me of the more simplified bloom's taxonomy lesson that our group presented earlier this year. Here is a link to that again. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Blooms-Taxonomy-Questions-Activities-Robot-Detective-Judge-and-Inventor-1617034

    2. tjohnson82 26 Apr 2018
      “Althoughstudentsreadtextatmultiplelevelsfordifferentpurposes,theyarecontinuouslyprovidedwithopportunitiestoreadincreasinglycomplextext.”

      Knowing your students and what is and is not "complex" for them is very important in encouraging them to become more proficient and independent readers. This can change from class to class. I, for example, have provided different texts for different sections of the same class. This is also where Newsela can be helpful.

    3. tjohnson82 26 Apr 2018
      Makingconnections—Relatingreadingtoself,text,andothers■Visualizing—Creatingmentalpic-turesoftextwhilereading■Knowinghowwordswork—Understandingwordsthroughstrategicvocabularydevelopment,includingtheuseofgraphoph-onic,syntactic,andsemanticcueingsystems■Monitoring—Asking“Doesthismakesense?”andadaptingstrate-gicprocessestoaccommodatetheresponse■Summarizing—Synthesizingimportantideas■Evaluating—Makingjudgmentsaboutt

      We allow students to choose between these strategies on a nightly basis in our English 9 class. Many of them gravitate to one or two strategies and stick with those, so it is important to ensure that they do all of these at different times and with different texts.

    4. tjohnson82 26 Apr 2018
      Motivationisakeyfactorincomprehension.Gambrell(1996)suggestedthat“classroomculturesthatfosterreadingmotivationarecharacterizedbyateacherwhoisareadingmodel,abook-richclassroomenvironment,opportunitiesforchoice,familiaritywithbooks,andliteracy-relatedincentivesthatreflectthevalueofreading”(p.20).

      I do book talks to help motivate my students and to find texts that they are interested in outside of school.

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