1. Strategies to Promote Reading Comprehension Prereading Strategies: Developing Motivation, Purpose, and Background Knowledge During Reading Strategies: Monitoring Comprehension Post Reading: Organizing and Remembering (more on Ch 10)

2. Prereading Strategy Steps 1. Motivate students’ interest and build background knowledge of the topic to be read. 2. Clarify their purpose. -let them know what you expect them to gain from it -what they are to do with the information 3. Help students gain a general idea of the text’s organization and content. -headings, subheadings, table of contents, glossary, etc...

3. Direct and Concrete Experiences Teacher Talk: making purposes clear Field Trips and Films: builds students’ schema for a topic Simulation Games: direct experience for learning Experiments: enhance comprehension

4. Developing vocabulary before students read a text. Acquire new vocabulary through direct experiences and by discussing critical terms found in the text. Structured Overviews are visual displays of information, i.e. flowcharts, maps, and power points. Provides a basic outline of important ideas before reading. See Fig 9.8 pg 353 Preview Guides are also used to help overview the important ideas of the text. See Fig 9.9 and pg 333 Anticipation Guides helps students’ make opinions/predictions about the text before reading then compare their views after reading. See Fig 9.10 pg 354

5. During Reading Strategies Monitoring Comprehension “Most of the during reading strategies center on questioning strategies that you model or that build students’ self-questioning abilities.” Using Headings and Subheadings helps guide students in monitoring comprehension by turning headings into questions. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA) helps the student prepare for monitoring comprehension. You would model creating questions using headings and subheadings then let the students practice in a group then eventually work individually.

6. Vocabulary Strategies During Reading Contextual redefinition/Preview in Context -assists in comprehending and acquiring vocabulary within the context of the reading Using Clustering to Develop Vocabulary in Context a method used to help guess the meaning of a word in a passage. A cluster is formed without using the main word but synonyms are giving clue to what the main word could be. See Fig 9.13 pg 357

7. Jigsaw Procedure Learning Logs Students formulate questions/notes about what they are learning or what might be difficult while they are reading, so later to ask and discuss it with the teacher.

8. Differentiating Instruction for Content Area Reading Supplemental reading materials Include graphic and pictorial cues to support text meaning