Anchor Charts to Support Comprehension Strategies By Mary Malloy & Katrina Purdue
Professional Development IRT training from Cindy and Therese Embedded Midvale PD Year 1- Primary Literacy Notebook Year 2- Comprehension Strategies with Debbie Miller Year 3- Comprehension revisited + writing
Resources Literacy Room Books Book Room Titles for Book Club
Curriculum Maps
Implementation Modeling (Anchor Charts) Shared Practice (Anchor Charts) Guided Practice (notebooks) Independent Practice (Book Club, notebooks)
Monitoring Comprehension
Connections
Book Club Heterogeneous Small Groups Adult reads book aloud to group Each child is given a copy of the text Students reflect and use post-its to track their thinking Students initiate discussions Follow-up reflection in reading journals
Book Club Introduction
Book Club
First Session Second Session
Inferring
Questioning
Book Club
Mental Imaging
Mental Imaging Texts
Book Club Revisited
Determining Importance
Determining Importance with Fables
Book Club magazines poetry
Synthesizing
Synthesizing with Allen Say
Synthesizing
Summary of Book Club Evolved over the year Added to format (coding, one main idea) Changed genres (poetry and nonfiction) Developed oral language Students problem solved around group dynamics Volunteers and students became more comfortable with format
Thanks to the 2 nd graders who deepened our thinking!