Learning

Overview of Comprehension

strategies AiZ Learning Leaders

Session 7

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Learning

Reviewing between session activity of session 6

Reflection on practices, skills and strategies needed by students and teachers.

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Agenda

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Learning

Between Session Action What professional reading did you do in

the past two weeks?Why were these chosen?What did you learn from them?

Discuss the data you passed on to your colleagues What strategies or skills did you discuss?Did you trial a different teaching

practice?

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Learning

Using the data sources Explored in the first and 6th session.

The evidence showed:-

Making inferences Infer

Working out meaning of words and phrases Context clues

Making links between directly stated ideas in a text

Making connections

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Difficult

Most difficult

Learning

What tools did we use to strengthen the item knowledge?

VELS Standards, Progression Points, Continuum

Professional reading variety of resources

How can this information be carried forward?

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Learning

Reviewing and discussing your data to sustain teaching strategies

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How was the data used?

How did you support the staff to develop an understanding of the use of data?

What did you find were the areas of concern?

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Learning

How can this be achieved?

Taking into account...

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Learning

3 Factors that Influence Comprehension

1.1. The Student

2.2. The Text - (reading, writing, speaking and listening)

3.3. The Purpose / The Focus Explicit teaching

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Learning

Explicit teaching of…

Routines / ProcessWhat does this mean? How does having a

routine support learning? Discuss

Individual StrategiesWhat strategies are in place and what

strategies will come next? Discuss

Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, Evaluate = e5

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Learning

ACTIVITY (Modelling)

Text Structure and Features

Essential Elements Getting Knowledge

Ready Vocabulary Paraphrasing Summarising Reading aloud /

Visualising Questioning / questions Reviewing / reflection

Explicit teaching across the

strategies for comprehension

Constructing the meaning

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Whole group discussion

Learning

Essential Elements to develop mastery of comprehension in the three issues to improve comprehension Getting Knowledge Ready Vocabulary Paraphrasing Summarising Reading aloud / Visualising Questioning / questions Reviewing / reflection

What needs to be taught to improve…?

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Learning

What needs to be taught to improve...? Make links between directly stated ideas in a text.

Work out the meaning of phrases (words) in context.

Infer messages in any communication.

What ideas can be found using the resources? Strategies That Work – Harvey and Goudvis Teaching Comprehension 6 – 9 LIST ON THE TEMPLATE

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Learning

Getting Knowledge Ready / Prediction /

Prior Knowledge / Inferring What have you found?

Review Professional Reading

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Learning

Vocabulary Building Vocabulary

Word splashWord lists – class or personal

Applying word knowledge in reading and writing?

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Learning

Visualising (out of reading aloud or reading to)

Visualising has 3 levels:- Context LevelSentence LevelWord Level (vocabulary)

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Learning

Questions and Questioning

What teaching strategies are used to engage?Importance of wait timeListen to the student and don’t repeat.

Levels of questioning Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions

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Learning

Paraphrasing and Summarising Finding the key words

Note takingRetelling

Building summarising skills delete, substitute, keep

Hint: - Use known texts to develop paraphrasing and summarising skills – concentrate on the learning of the new strategy not the content and the strategy.

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Learning

Online Resources

Inanimate Alice

On line Library

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