1. Strengthening Comprehension across ALL content areas By: Eric Johnson and Lynda Maldonado

2. Celebrations ● Positive Teacher / Student relationships ● Progress Charts ● Word walls ● Student work displayed

3. Suggestions to Strengthen Comprehension ● Reading Strategies ● Metacognitive Strategies ● Building Vocabulary Strategies ●Language Objectives

4. 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 (www.theteachertoolkit.com)www.theteachertoolkit.com ●Think Aloud - http://www.vdoe.whro.org/elementary_reading/ThinkAloud1-20-2010_F8_FastStart_512k.swf

5. 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.

6. Suggestions – Building Vocabulary ● Brick and Mortar

7. Suggestions – Building Vocabulary ● Who Am I? ● Cognates

8. 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.

9. Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Transition words / Speaking

10. Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Language function / Writing

11. Examples of Language Objectives Focus: Key Vocabulary / Speaking

12. Questions over Presentation Thanks for all you do!!