1. To gain a better understanding and knowledge of comprehension instruction so that you are able to make good teaching decisions in response to what you see students doing in your current interventions: LLI, Comprehension Toolkit, Making Connections, etc.

3. Skills Strategy  An automatic procedure that readers use unconsciously.  Do not require thought, interpretation or choice.  Are observable behaviors, easily tested behaviors or answers to questions.  Instruction focuses on repeated use until it becomes habitual.  Conscious plan under the control of the reader.  Requires thought about which plan to use and when to use them.  Are process-oriented, cognitive procedures the reader uses, generally unobservable in nature.  Instruction focuses on the reasoning process readers use as they interact with text

4.  Monitor and Adjust/Clarify  Activate and Connect  Ask Questions  Infer and Visualize  Determine Importance  Summarize and Synthesize (arrive at big ideas and create new ideas)

5. TAKE A BREAK

6.  Good readers understand how stories work. Knowing how fiction works enables students to make predictions about story characters and events and to determine an author’s purpose.  Awareness of the purposes, types, features and structures of non-fiction texts increases students ability to gain factual information from printed material and enables good readers to set and monitor their purpose for reading.  Knowing how author’s craft their writing helps readers to gain a deeper understanding of what they read.

7.  INFORMATIONAL  Text features  Point of view/Author’s Purpose  Main Idea  Key Details  Vocabulary  LITERATURE  Story Elements Analyzing characters, setting and plot  Understanding Literary Devices/Figurative Language and Vocabulary  Theme  Point of view/Author’s Purpose

8.  Description  Chronology, temporal/sequential  Procedure  Cause-effect  Compare/contrast  Proposition-support  Problem-solution  Critique

9.  Non-Fiction  Fiction  Mystery  Biography  Autobiography  Folktale  Fantasy  Historical Fiction  Narrative (fiction/non-fiction)  Poetry  Horror  Science Fiction  Graphic novels  Adventure  Kindness  Friendship  Perseverance  Cooperation  Honesty  Acceptance  Courage  Responsibility  Family  Survival  Respect  Discovery  Persistence  Believe in yourself

10.  First Person I, me, my, mine, we, our, ours  Second Person you, yours  Third Person (Objective, Omniscient) he, she, it, they