week 6 - reading 1

1. 8P20
2014-15
Reading 1:
Text Complexity &
Reading Comprehension Strategies

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abN2aP_Dzd0

3. Reading Engagement

4. Group Task
• Locate the article “Reading Choice is Reading
Engagement,” p.16
• Break up the reading into segments
• Each person reads the same segment silently
(if you finish before others jot down notes)
• Group discusses the segment
• Go on to the next segment. Repeat process
until finished

5. If your group finishes early…
• Read:
– First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Education 101, p. 12
OR
– Connect, Collaborate, and Create with Twitter in
the Classroom, p. 26

6. Forest of Reading
• Would you vote for your novel in the Forest of
Reading contest?
– What did you love about your book?
– What were some drawbacks?
– On Nov. 4/5 your group will be giving a short
promo for your novel. Begin to think how you
could promote your book creatively!!

7. Text Complexity
• Should teachers select the correct * book for
students so that they will not experience
frustration?
*appropriate reading level

8. How is reading complex text like lifting
weights?

9. Text Complexity
“Just as it’s impossible to build muscle without
weight or resistance, it’s impossible to build
robust reading skills without reading challenging
text.”
Shanahan, Fisher, & Frey, 2012

10. “The new standards propose that
teachers move students
purposefully through increasingly
complex text to build skill and
stamina.”
Shanahan et al., 2012.

11. Text Complexity
Sharon Murphy
• Reader & reading task
• Surface features
– Vocabulary, word length,
sentence length, images
• Deeper features
– Ideas, organization, structure,
representational modes
Lapp, Fisher, Grant
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension strategies
• Text structures
• Text features

12. Reading Comprehension Strategies
• A quick review:
– Notebook software
• Gallery
– Lesson Activity Toolkit
» Activities
• Keyword Match

13. Teaching for Reading Comprehension
• Harvey, S. & Goudvis, A. (2007). Strategies
that Work: Teaching Comprehension for
Understanding and Engagement. (LB 1573.7
H37 2007 in SC IRC)
• Dorn, L. & Soffos, C. (2005). Teaching for Deep
Comprehension: A Reading Workshop
Approach. (in process LB 1573.7 D67 2005 )

14. Table Discussion
• Engage in a discussion about the
comprehension strategies you used as readers
when you read the novel
• How did monitoring your comprehension help
or hinder your reading?
• Would you ask your students to monitor their
own strategies as they read?

15. Task for Week 7
• From the reading comprehension strategies
indicated in the next slide have each person
choose one
• Find 4 specific places in your novel where this
strategy could be reinforced
• Complete the assignment sheet, including the
summary statement at the bottom
• Hand in (not Drop Box) on Oct. 21/22

16. Comprehension Strategies
• Activating prior knowledge
• Making connections: text-to-self; text-to-text;
text-to-world
• Predicting
• Visualizing
• Questioning
• Drawing inferences
• Evaluating