START Student and Teachers Actively Reading Text

Reading Comprehension Strategies 1. Students are provided choice of text to read. Students are motivated to read. Students read more deeply. Students use metacognitive strategies more strategically than those assigned a text.

Reading Comprehension Strategies 2. Students complete self-monitoring recording sheets. 3. It is implemented during read-aloud and independent reading of self-selected text 3 to 4 days per week for 20 minutes per day for a total of 40 sessions. (10 weeks) 4. Pre/Post questionnaire.

Before Reading During Reading After Reading Predicting/inferring Visualizing Making connections Questioning Main idea Summarizing Checking predictions Making judgments In this chapter I think … In my mind I see … This reminds me of … I wonder … I think the most important thing In 10 words or less … My original prediction … My favorite part …

Teacher Read-Aloud Teacher reads from chapter book explicitly modeling and explaining the comprehension strategy. The teacher provides guided practice, scaffolding students during the read-aloud to use comprehension strategies with teacher support.

Eight Comprehension Strategies 1. predicting/inferring 2. visualizing 3. making connections 4. questioning 5. determining main idea 6. summarizing 7. checking predictions 8. making judgements

ART of Comprehension Actively Reading Text During read-aloud, teacher uses sticky notes to jot down each prediction, visualization, connection, question, main idea, summary, prediction check, and judgement and places the sticky note in the book as they read.

ART of Comprehension Actively Reading Text Before the next read-aloud session, the teacher models removing the sticky notes from the previous reading and places them in the appropriate boxes on the recording sheets.

ART of Comprehension Actively Reading Text Beginning with the 10 th independent reading session, after each of the 8 comprehension strategies have been modeled, students in the START classroom complete their own ART of Comprehension self-monitoring recording sheets during independent reading.

ART of Comprehension Actively Reading Text Goal is for students to increase their independent metacognitive strategy use so that the reading sheets become unnecessary.