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The Architecture of

Comprehension Instruction

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What are strategies related to comprehension?

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  • Questioning
  • Connecting
  • Visualizing
  • Determining Importance
  • Inferring
  • Synthesizing

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The goal of Comprehension Instruction is to Build Knowledge.

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1 Before Reading

Anticipation Guide

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Pre-Reading Quiz, p. 107

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True or False?

  • Readers use cognitive strategies to understand what they are reading.
  • Some strategies can be used for more than one stage of the reading process.
  • Annotations should be every teacher’s starting point when teaching content-area reading.
  • Vocabulary-building strategies, when needed, should occur before reading.
  • Modeling a reading or thinking strategy should always be done with text from your subject area.
  • A thinking model should always be repeated when students read about new concepts.

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2-During Reading

Anticipation Guide

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(Multicolumn Notes, p.128)

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Text: Chapter 5 pgs. 87-93

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Anticipation Guide Multicolumn Notes

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If you finish early, preview some of the comprehension strategies in Chapter 5.

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3-After Reading

Written Conversation

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P. 159

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Written Conversation Directions

  • Identify a partner to work with (someone new to you).
  • You two will swap notes every two minutes to discuss the reading we just completed.
  • The first writer starts with the prompt, “What did you learn, and why is it important?”
  • After two minutes, the second writer will respond to the prompt, make connections, ask questions -- whatever you might do in normal conversation.
  • We will do 2 rounds - and then debrief as a group.

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What is a skill your students need?

  • Explore the skills on pgs. 90-91.
  • Select a skill your students need.
  • Choose a strategy to support it with a text you’ll teach.
  • You have the option of using the lesson template.

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