As a teacher it is easy to focus much of your efforts on helping the children to correctly pronounce and decode words, but by doing that you are forgetting about one of the most important parts of learning to read, comprehension! Comprehension, which involves extracting the meaning from text, is something that good readers have. As Laura Pardo said in What Every Teacher Needs to Know about Comprehension it is a, "transaction between readers and the text." So, it is easy to see using this definition how the reader matters when it comes to comprehending material. Children need to be taught the skills as well as the vocabulary to do this. Teachers can help children learn this by using a variety of strategies.
Here are some ideas to help readers begin to comprehend materials from Pinterest:
1. Charts- (like the one below) Place in the reading area that the teacher references as she openly models them in relation to what is being read.
2. Beach-ball Comprehension- Write questions on a beach-ball, and then have the children answer them using what occurred in a story that has previously been read. More information on this can be found on the blog I Can Teach My Child.
Hope that you find these helpful! Also, I am wondering what are some ideas that you readers have for teaching children how to comprehend what they read? As well I am wondering if you can think of how to get parents more involved in improving their child(ten)'s level of comprehension?
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