Improve Student Learning using Comprehension Strategies

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Improve Student Learningusing Comprehension
Strategies

• Northern Middle School
• January 19, 2004
• Presented by S.J. Heise, HSE

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Improve Student LearningusingREADINGComprehensi
on Strategies

• Northern Middle School
• January 19, 2004
• Presented by S.J. Heise, HSE

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AGENDA

• Rationale/Objective (5 minutes)
• Types of Reading Strategies (15 minutes)
• Article Study/Model (60 minutes content)
• Lunch (60 minutes)
• More Reading Strategies in Action content
  specific (60 minutes) (process)
• Target strategies (30 minutes product)
• content / personal
• Next Steps (10 minutes)
• Follow- Up/Exit Slip (10 minutes)

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Teach Reading who me?

• I teach __________it isnt my job to teach
  reading!
• I am not a reading specialist I dont have the
  training to teach struggling readers.
• If the students were prepared at the elementary
  level the we wouldnt have to worry about
  reading strategies!
• My students cant read at the middle school
  level, how can I teach them to read?
• I cant teach reading skills in my content, I
  have to prepare my students for their assessment.

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Data Analysis and Reading
KPR ANALYSIS Identify achievement gaps
Analysis of student work Instructional
implications
On-going Assessment Identifies areas of
strength and improvement
Low academic performance
POOR COMPREHENSION SKILLS
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Rationale

• Based upon analysis of formal and informal
  assessments, research, and teacher observations
  student comprehension of content is the crucial
  element of student achievement.
• Middle school students need to talk about and
  apply their development of a concept in repeated,
  meaningful contexts.
• Reading strategies provide a SKILL to improve
  student learning.

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Objectives

• Teachers will connect with the understanding that
  student use of reading strategies is aligned with
  State Standards, Standards and Indicators for
  School Improvement, Best Practices, and Brain
  Research. (synthesis)
• Teachers will identify before, during, and after
  reading strategies. (application)
• Teachers will identify two reading strategies
  that will be immediately used in their content
  area. (application)

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State Standards

• Academic Expectation 1.2 Students make sense of
  the variety of materials they read
• Core Content
• 1.0.11 Explain the meaning of a passage taken
  from texts appropriate for middle level students
• 2.0.11 Use text features (charts, graphs, etc.)
  to understand a passage
• 3.0.15 Identify the argument and supporting
  evidence
• 4.0.11 Locate and apply information for a
  specific purpose (e.g. following directions,
  completing a task).

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Standards and Indicators for School Improvement

• Curriculum 1.1c Discussions eliminate unnecessary
  overlaps and close gaps
• Assessment 2.1h Samples of student work are
  analyzed to inform instruction, revise
  curriculum, and pedagogy.
• Instruction 3.1 a There is evidence that
  effective and varied instructional strategies are
  used in all classrooms.
• Instruction 3.1b Instructional strategies and
  leaning activities are aligned with the district,
  school, and state learning goals.
• Instruction 3.1c Learning approaches address the
  learning styles of students.

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Best Practice

• Teaching Reading as a Process
• Use strategies that activate prior knowledge
• Help students make and test predictions
• Structure help during reading
• Provide after-reading applications

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WHEN I ASSIGN READING..
Vocabulary
Before they read
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3 Categories of Reading Strategies

• PRE-READING
• DURING READING
• POST READING

BEFORE
DURING
AFTER
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Pre-Reading Strategies

• Activate prior knowledge
• Prepares the brain for new incoming information
• Helps students know why they are reading the
  material
• Introduces new vocabulary
• Help students make connections

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Pre -Reading Strategies Featured Strategies

• Admit Slips
• Activating Prior Knowledge
• Context Clues
• Decoding
• K-W-L Chart
• Predicting

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During Reading Strategies

• Give full attention to the material
• Organize the information
• Increase understanding of the text
• Taking notes - copying given information - low
  level of internalization
• MAKING NOTES - putting ideas into your own words
  and making connections between ideas - high level
  of internalization.

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During Reading Strategies Featured Strategies

• Context Clues
• Active Reading
• Decoding
• K-W-L Chart
• Paired Reading
• Read-Alouds
• Graphic Organizers

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Post Reading Strategies

• Summarizes what student has learned
• Helps to fit new information into what the
  student already knows
• Should tap into higher levels of thinking

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Post Reading StrategiesFeatured Strategies

• Graphic Organizers
• K-W-L Chart
• QAR (Question/Answer Relationship)
• Summarizing

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Reading Strategies in Action

• Seven Literacy Strategies that Work
• Pre- Reading Activity
• Writing to Learn
• During Reading
• Read-Alouds Silent Reading Paired Reading
  Notes
• Post Reading Strategy
• Think/Pair/Share

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Reading Strategies in Action

• Seven Literacy Strategies that Work
• Pre- Reading Activity - Activate Prior Knowledge
• Writing to Learn

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Reading Strategies in Action

• Seven Literacy Strategies that Work
• During Reading Activity -Activate Prior Knowledge
• Read-Aloud
• Silent Reading
• Paired Reading
• Double-Entry Notes

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Reading Strategies in Action

• Seven Literacy Strategies that Work
• Post Reading Activity
• Think/Pair/Share

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BREAK

• HAVE A GREAT LUNCH

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Improve Student LearningusingREADINGComprehensi
on Strategies

• Northern Middle School
• January 19, 2004
• Presented by S.J. Heise, HSE

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More Reading Strategies in ActionBREAK OUT
SESSION

• Work in groups of 2 3 to review the MRSIA
• Using the planning sheet, identify two strategies
  within your small group.
• Using these selections, return to content group
  and determine the one strategy that will be
  integrated within the content area.
• Discuss category of emphasis before/during/after
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• Personally choose the second strategy to
  integrate within you own classroom.
• Return to Library at 230 to discuss selections

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Target Strategies
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Next Steps

• Integrate reading strategies into teaching
  content
• Use common terminology in all classes
• Intensive focused training for all staff
• Study groups in content committee meetings
• Develop resources of various reading strategies
  in a network folder

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Follow - Up

• Walk through instrument
• Observation feedback
• Lesson plans identify reading strategies

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Objectives

• Teachers will connect with the understanding that
  student use of reading strategies is aligned with
  State Standards, Standards and Indicators for
  School Improvement, Best Practices, and Brain
  Research. (synthesis)
• Teachers will identify before, during, and after
  reading strategies. (application)
• Teachers will identify two reading strategies
  that will be immediately used in their content
  area. (application)

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EXITSLIP
Improve Student LearningusingREADINGComprehensi
on Strategies