Tiffany-Beers+Chapter4

=Chapter 4: Explicit Instruction in Comprehension=

Strategies to Help Students Understand Texts (p.41)

 * clarifying
 * comparing and contrasting
 * connecting to past experiences
 * inferencing (ex: generalizing and drawing conclusions)
 * predicting
 * questioning the text
 * recognizing the author's purpose
 * seeing relationships (small and large)
 * summarizing
 * visualizing

How do I Teach the Strategies?
We must be very direct and explicit in our instruction. Sample instructional practice to use (p.42-44):
 * 1) Pick a strategy to model and the text you will use.
 * 2) Tell the students what strategy you are going to practice when reading.
 * 3) Read the passage to students and model the strategy.
 * 4) Give students many opportunities to practice the strategy when they are reading.
 * 5) Continue modeling as needed
 * 6) Students try the strategy without extra support.