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Title: Monitoring Comprehension


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Monitoring Comprehension
  • Julie Trone, Krista Wayne, Melody Ratigan

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Reading
  • Define Reading to your partner
  • Reading Getting the meaning of something
    written by using the eyes to interpret its
    characters.
  • Websters New World Dictionary (1991)

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Comprehension
  • Goal- CONSTRUCT MEANING
  • Teachers are too often assessing rather than
    teaching our students to better comprehend what
    they read.
  • Comprehension strategies are to help students
    construct meaning from text.

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How do you construct meaning from text?
  • Monitor Understanding
  • Enhance Understanding
  • Acquire and Actively Use Knowledge
  • Develop Insight

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Strategies to use to Construct Meaning from text
  • Connections- prior knowledge and new information
  • Ask Questions
  • Draw Inferences during and after reading
  • Separate important from less important ideas in
    text
  • Combine information within and across texts and
    reading experiences
  • Monitor the adequacy of their understanding and
    repair faulty comprehension

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Purpose for Reading
  • There is always one purpose for sure and that is
    understanding
  • Teach kids to think about their purpose for
    reading
  • WHY?
  • Proficient readers adapt strategies for their
    purpose for reading
  • You need metacognitive knowledge to match the
    strategies to your purpose for reading

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Reciprocal Teaching
  • A teacher student dialogue where teacher models
    and gradually relinquishes control to the
    student.
  • Based on Vygotskys zone of proximal development.
  • Teacher provides instructional scaffold
  • This sentence by sentence guidance is more
    appropriate for readers with severe reading and
    language problems.

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Reciprocal Teaching
  • Why It Works
  • 1. By having the teacher engage explicitly in
    comprehension monitoring, it provides a model for
    the novice reader of what expert readers do when
    they try to learn from texts.
  • 2. It obligates even the quietest of students to
    respond openly, thus allowing teachers to assess
    students current level and provide appropriate
    feedback.

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Metacognitive Knowledge
  • An awareness and understanding of how one thinks
    and uses strategies during reading.
  • Four aspects of metacognitive knowledge- These
    help understand how learners adapt strategies to
    their purposes.

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Four Aspects of Metacognitive Knowledge
  • Tacit Learners/Readers- lack an awareness of how
    they think while reading
  • Aware Learners/Readers- Realize when meaning
    breaks down, but do not know enough fix-up
    strategies
  • Strategic Learners/ Readers- Use their thinking
    and comprehension as tools, but are unable to
    monitor and repair meaning with it is disrupted.
  • Reflective Learners/ Readers- Stratgic thinkers,
    apply strategies flexibly based off goals and
    purpose, and monitor thinking and understanding.
    Also reflect, ponder and revise their use of
    strategies.

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Monitoring
Questioning
Connencting
Reacting
Inferring
Inferring
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The Inner ConversationThe voice you hear when
you read silently is not silent, it is a speaking
out-loud voice in your head. Thomas Lux
  • Voice in head while reading that allows to
    construct meaning
  • You have to have an inner conversation to know
    when you stray from it
  • Awareness quicker repair when meaning breaks
    down
  • Teach readers to stay on top of their reading
  • Readers move toward independence when they can
    monitor their comprehension

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Inner Conversation Cont.
  • We teach readers to
  • Become aware of their thinking during reading
  • Monitor understanding and keep track of meaning
  • Listen to the voice in their head to construct
    meaning
  • Notice when they stray from thinking about text
  • Notice when meaning breaks down
  • Detect obstacles and confustions that detail
    understanding
  • Understand how numerous strategies can help
    repair meaning
  • Know when, why, and how to apply certain
    strategies to keep and continue understanding

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Krista
  • Following the inner conversation
  • Purpose Listen to the inner voice and leave
    tracks of thinking (Sticky Notes)
  • Interactive Reading aloud- reading aloud for the
    purpose of instruction
  • Steps
  • Activate background knowledge
  • Model
  • Guided practice
  • Sharing thinking

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Krista
  • Noticing When we stray from the Inner
    Conversation
  • Purpose Monitoring the inner voice to focus
    thinking and fix- up comprehension

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Melody
  • Noticing and exploring thinking
  • Purpose Listening to the inner voice and
    responding to the text
  • Steps
  • Talk about my own personal connection to story.
  • Read book all the way through without stopping.
  • Ask students to write down their inner
    conversation on a large sticky note.
  • Share with a partner.
  • Collect sticky notes and put them on anchor
    chart.

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Melody
  • Knowing when you know and knowing when you dont
    know
  • Purpose Monitoring comprehension to clarify
    confusion or answer questions about the text
  • Materials Sticky notes coded Huh? for confused
    and with a light bulb for readers illumination.

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Julie
  • Read, Write, and Talk
  • Purpose Teaching readers to stop, think, and
    react to informational text

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Monitoring Comprehension Review
  • Engagement
  • Teach our students to be ACTIVE readers not
    PASSIVE
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