Comprehension of Literary and Informational Text Part 2

Which reading skills will help a student understand author's purpose?

• Visualizing (creating mental images as you read)

• Eliminate unnecessary details

• Understand facts and opinions

• Personally connect to the text

1 To persuade

2 To inform

3 To entertain

• Three basic reasons of author's purposes

• Which reading skills will help a student understand author's purpose?

  A. visualizing (creating mental images as you read)

  B Eliminate unnecessary details

  C Understand facts and opinions

  D. Personally connect to the text

• Problem: A student chooses a story with a reading level that is too high

• Smile

What instructional strategy is best to use with emergent readers in a first grade classroom?

• Giving Minilessons on a specific skill; students completing independent practice on the given skill

• Demonstrating objects; facilitating guided practice for given objectives

• Designing a series of lessons with one reading objective in mind; providing modeling, think aloouds, and guided practice of the given objective

• Providing time to read independently; helping select books for students with accurate leveling, content, and interest

When looking at figurative language (simile, metaphor, idioms) what is a good question to ask students?

• Ask the student to think about connections with the text

  Use text-to text, text-to self, and text-to-world connections, metacognition strategies (making connections with the text)

• Understand facts and opinions

  Facts are used to inform and opinions persuade

• Is the literal meaning of the phrase the author's intended message?

  Students should first consider if the literal meaning makes sense and then think about what the author actually intended to convey

• Solution: Provide several book choices and have the student determine the readability (read the back of the book, the first sentence, flip through the book and see if the book is on level or if vocabulary is too difficult) before they choose the text

A small group of students have an accuracy rate of 94% above on running records. What is the next step for these students?

• Listen to audiobooks at the next level

• Reading books at the next level with teacher support

Your next reading lesson for your student is to read The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.

What strategy will help the students to build background knowledge and improve their understanding of the topic?

• Understand facts and opionions

  Facts are used to inform and opinions persuade

• Solution: Narrow the student's focus by asking about the student's interests, explain how the library is organized

• Designing a series of lessons with one reading objective in mind. provide modeling, think alouds, and guided practice of the given objective

• Visit approved Wev sites before reading the story to view video clips and read primary documents related to the story

Problem: A student chooses a story with a reading level that is too high

• Solution: Read the book using paired reading with a parent

• Solution: Encourage the student to find a book with the same author or a book with the same topic or genre

• Solution: Provide several book choices and have the student determine the readability before they choose the text

• Solution: Narrow the student's focus by asking about the student's interests; explain how the library is organized

Which reading skills will help a student understand author's purpose?

• Visualizing (creating mental images as you read)

• Eliminate unnecessary details

• Understand facts and opinions

• Personally connect to the text

Which reading skills will help a student understand author's purpose?

• Visualizing (creating mental images as you read)

• Eliminate unnecessary details

• Understand facts and opinions

• Personally connect to the text

Which reading skills will help a student understand author's purpose?

• Visualizing (creating mental images as you read)

• Eliminate unnecessary details

• Understand facts and opinions

• Personally connect to the text