Strengthening Comprehension across ALL content areas By: Eric Johnson and Lynda Maldonado
Celebrations ● Positive Teacher / Student relationships ● Progress Charts ● Word walls ● Student work displayed
Suggestions to Strengthen Comprehension ● Reading Strategies ● Metacognitive Strategies ● Building Vocabulary Strategies ●Language Objectives
Suggestions – Reading Strategies ● Pre-Reading Strategies ( building 50% of comprehension) ● Skimming (quickly read through text) ● Scanning (quickly reading over titles, images, captions, etc…) ● Previewing Text ● During Reading ●Stop and Jot ( ●Think Aloud -
Suggestions – Metacognitive Strategies ● Identify where/what difficulty occurs and make note on paper. ●Relate it to real life ● Word Etymology ●Explicitly teach prefix, roots, suffix.
Suggestions – Building Vocabulary ● Brick and Mortar
Suggestions – Building Vocabulary ● Who Am I? ● Cognates
Language Objectives to Help ALL Students Build Vocabulary ○ Task-oriented objective that practices at least one of the four language domains (integrates the ELPS) ○ ○ Clearly written and communicated in formal language. ○ ○ Incorporated in the lesson and used by the students to support the development of the content concepts. ○ ○ Shared directly with the students orally.
Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Transition words / Speaking
Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Language function / Writing
Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Key Vocabulary / Speaking
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