The Magnificent Seven

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The Magnificent Seven

• Reading Comprehension Strategies
• Richard Staton
• Language Arts Instructional Specialist
• Tiffany Johnson
• Title I Reading- Instructional Specialist

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Effective Reading Program

• Five Components of Reading
• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics
• Fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension

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Strategy vs. Skill vs. Activity

• What is the difference?

• Strategy actions readers do to solve a problem
  while reading

Skill what readers need to understand to follow
the plot
Activity
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Strategy vs. Skill

• Strategies are used daily can be applied to all
  texts.

• Skills are used with specific texts.

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Strategies
Math
Language Arts
All content areas All day
Social Studies
Science
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Magnificent Seven

• Make connections
• Ask questions
• Visualize
• Infer

• Determine important information
• Synthesize
• Monitor comprehension

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Making connections

• Pay more attention
• Need a hook
• Growth when there is a connection
• Other reading material, movies, TV, events, other
  people

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Making connections
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Making connections

• Students say to themselves
• That reminds me of . . .
• It made me think of . . .
• I read another book where . . .
• This is different from . . .
• I remember when . . .

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Ask Questions

• Reading is thinking
• Ask questions before, during and after reading
• Clarify and gain understanding
• Of author and of themselves

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Students ask themselves . . .

• What is the author saying here?
• I wonder what I would have done in this
  situation?
• What is the authors message?
• What is the author talking about?
• What does the author mean here?
• Does the author explain this clearly?

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Evaluation
• Synthesis
• Analysis
• Application
• Comprehension
• Knowledge

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Visualize

• Create a picture in your head
• What
• are you doing?
• do you see?
• do you smell?
• do you feel?

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Visualize

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Drawing inferences

• What is known clues from the text judgment
• Reading
• Must find proof

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Drawing inferences

• QAR- Question Answer Relationships
• What might you infer about this man from the
  picture?

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vs.
Drawing Inferences
Drawing Conclusions
Text Text Text
MUST
Background Knowledge Text
FIND
PROOF

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Determining Important Ideas

• Weed out unimportant details
• Including but not limited to
• Main idea
• Theme
• Major events
• Facts the author wants the reader to know

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Determining Important Ideas
Fiction Nonfiction

• The students will ask themselves . . .
• The big idea is . . .
• The most important ideas are . . .
• So far I have learned that . . .
• This is important because . . .
• I can use this information to help me . . .
• This idea is similar to . . .
• This idea changed my mind because . . .

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Determining Important Ideas
Nonfiction

• Text features
• Titles headings
• Bold print
• Pictures captions
• Graphs charts
• Chapter objectives questions

• Post-it notes
• interesting or important
• L learned something new
• SM summary
• R research

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Synthesize Information

• New information existing knowledge new ideas
• Summarizing and predicting
• Employers want this

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Synthesize Information

• Students will ask themselves
• Do I compare and contrast what Im reading with
  what I already know?
• Do I think of new ways to use this information?
• Do the connections I make across text help me to
  create new generalizations or new perspectives?

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Monitor Comprehension
That doesnt make sense.

• Student fix up process
• I am confused by or because . . .
• I will try . . .

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Fix-it List

• Make connections
• Make predictions
• Stop and think
• Ask and answer questions
• Reflect in writing

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Fix-it List

• Use text clues
• Retell
• Reread
• Look for text patterns
• Adjust reading speed

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Instructional flowchart
model the strategy
tell the strategy
guided practice
independent practice
Students write down how they applied the strategy
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Students should . . .

• conscious unconscious

AUTOMATICITY
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Instructional Specialists

• Richard Staton
• Language Arts Instructional Specialist
• 780-7776
• rstaton_at_richmond. k12.va.us

• Tiffany Johnson
• Title I Reading Instructional
• Specialist
• 780-7797 tjohnson5_at_richmond.k12.va.us

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The Magnificent Seven
Reading Comprehension Strategies Richard
Staton Language Arts Instructional
Specialist Tiffany Johnson Title I Reading-
Instructional Specialist