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Comprehension Strategies to Share with Parents

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Webinar Outcomes

• Explore ways to help parents understand comprehension instruction at home
• Determine how to build supportive structures into at-home comprehension assignments

What is Comprehension?

• Comprehension strategies are routines and procedures that readers use to help make sense of text
• In K-2 the focus is to help children learn to read and thereafter we read to learn.
• Comprehension or understanding is the purpose of reading

How can we support learners and parents at home?

• Choose a strategy and model it with an appropriate text
• Verbalize your thinking (metacognitive process)
• Reinforce that the end result is understanding the text, not just using the strategy

Strategies

Many of these strategies overlap or are embedded within each other

• Self-monitoring
• Metacognition
• Asking and answering questions
• Graphic organizers
• Recognizing story structure
• Summarizing

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Self-monitoring

The child keeps track of what they do or do not understand. Some key questions parents can ask:

• Visualizing - what does this make you see in your imagination?
• Asking questions of self - I wonder...
• Drawing conclusions - This makes sense because..
• Rereading - I need to go back to find...

Metacognition

It literally means “big thinking”

Students who can think about their own thinking can employ strategies that work for them

Includes: Using schema (or background knowledge), visualizing, predicting

and making connections.

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Asking and Answering Questions

Fiction

I liked when…. What did you like?

I wonder what happened after…. What would you like to know?

I felt (feeling) when ______ happenend. How did you feel?

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Non-fiction

What does the title tell you about this story?

Why did the author write this book?

What information is provided by graphs, maps, etc?

What is the main idea of this text?

Graphic Organizers

Scholastic Graphic Organizers

Reading A-Z graphic organizers

Recognizing story structure

Fiction vs Non-fiction - why?

Characters - Scholastic Character Scrapbook

Setting - Where the story takes place

What is the problem/challenge?

How is it solved?

Summarizing

Who? What? Where? When? Why? How?

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Rewordify.com | Understand what you read

Summarize article

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Reminders/resources for parents

• All content can be used for comprehension practice
• Extend a child’s answer with “how do you know?”
• Question Cube Game - needs Adobe Flash - one stop shopping for comprehension strategies
• 5 finger book review - Scholastic

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