Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners

A Handbook for Content Area Teachers (Second Edition)

 

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Introduction
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Section One: Checking for Understanding

Click and Clunk

Cued Retelling

Discussion

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Games

Get the Gist

Interactive Read-Alouds

Narrative Pyramid

Page and Paragraph

Paraphrasing/Summarizing

Problem of the Week (POW)

Questions Into Paragraphs (QuIP)

Retelling

Section Two: Fostering Cooperative Learning

Circle-Seat-Center

Classwide Peer Tutoring

Fishbowl

Four-Corners Debate

Group Investigation

Jigsaw

Learning Together

Partner Prediction

Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)

Reciprocal Teaching

Save the Last Word for Me

Silent With Support

Skit Performance

Student Teams—Achievement Division (STAD)

Teams-Games-Tournament

Think-Pair-Share/Think-Pair-Square

Writing Word Problems

Section Three: Connecting to Previous Knowledge

Activate Prior Knowledge

Analogy Charting

Anticipation Guide

Brainstorming

Directed Reading Activity (DRA)

FLIP

Gallery Images

Interactive Notation System to Effective Reading and Thinking

List-Group-Label

Nonfiction Trade Books

Prediction Log

ReQuest

Story Content Instruction

Story Impressions

Section Four: Improving Organization

B/D/A Questioning Charts

Character Perspective Charting

Concept/Definition Mapping

Expectation Outline

Inquiry Charts

Know-Want to Know-Learned (K-W-L)

Mapping

Mind Mapping

ORDER

PLAN

Pyramid Diagram

Summary Cubes

Section Five: Promoting Independent Learning

CONCEPT

DISSECT Word Identification Strategy

Narrow and Enlarge the Text

Question–Answer Relationship

Read Three Times

SCAN and RUN

SQ3R

Teaching Vocabulary

Text Lookbacks

Thick and Thin Questions

Think-Aloud

Vocabulary Notebooks

Section Six: Teaching to Learning Style

Audiotapes/CDs

Combined Reading

Creative Dramatics

Draw a Picture

Highlight Text

Journal

Magazine Covers to Summarize

Radio Reading

Visual Adjuncts

Appendix: Technology and Comprehension

Blogs and Wikis

CD-ROM Books

Computer Software

Digital Language Experience Approach (D-LEA)

Digital Photography and Flip Cameras

e-Reader/e-Book/iPad

Glogsters

Interactive White Boards

The Internet

iREAP

Student Response Systems

References

 

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