2.+Comprehension+Strategies

= ** Comprehension Strategies  ** = = =  ** Reading Curriculum | Selecting Just Right Books | Phonemic Awareness | Vocabulary | Prediction | Questioning | Text Structures & Features | Visualisation | Summarising | Think Aloud | Decoding | Fluency | NAPLAN Preparation | Literature Circles ** = = Reading Curriculum Reading Curriculum - This website has a few ideas that can assist you for planning your reading program.
 * Independent Reading Criteria** - An example of an Independent Reading Criteria you could use in your classroom. It is better if you create your IR criteria with your students, nevertheless it is a good example.

//**Reading Curriculum Document**//: This document outlines everything you need to cover in your literacy reading block. It also outlines the areas that are specific to NAPLAN & ON DEMAND skill descriptors.

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Selecting Just Right Books Here are some websites that might give you some ideas on how to teach students to choose their own 'Just Right Books' Choosing a Just Right Book How to Choose Just Right Books Bookmarks (pdf file) Finding Just Right Books

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Phonemic Awareness Here are some websites you may wish to look at (also check out my Diigo bookmarking account for more websites.

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Sound Match Reggie Loves to Rhyme Rhyming Game Love Birds Rhyming Words Rhyming Wash Line Sandpit Truck Rhyming Match the Sound [|Orsons Farm Phonemic Activities] [|Saxon's Syllables]

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= Vocabulary =

How to work out words you don't know. This is a placemat that can be stuck onto your students desks (P-2). You may want to make your own anchor charts for your students in grades 3-4.

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Cohesive Ties is an important skill to teach students. It plays a large role in comprehension and is essential in solving comprehension questions found in NAPLAN tests. The following attachment is some professional reading that explains the different cohesive ties and ways to teach it in your classroom.
 * Cohesive Ties **

The attachment below is a bookmark which outlines strategies for students to improve their reading fluency, and strategies to help them to work out words they don't know. Lessons on Vocab (How to work out words you don't know) and fluency, should be done before the bookmark is given to students (otherwise students wont make reference to the strategies).
 * Reading Bookmark **

Students can go to MORE WORDS.COM to find more words based on prefixes/suffixes... also good to find words for crossword puzzles. A list of all the prefixes, suffixes & base/root words. Another list of word roots & prefixes (I think this one is the better one) PRE (purposeful reading activity) - based on developing an understanding of root/base words.

Prediction Prediction at Word Level Specialised Vocabulary Chart



//**Predicting the meaning of words I don't know**//. This is a sheet students can paste into their reading journals. I recommend that students practise using all the strategies for predicting the meaning of words they don't know on a weekly basis.

Below is professional reading on how you may do predicting at word level (clarifying unknown words).

SQ3R
Reading Activities using SQ3R - has support sheets and other ideas to support the SQ3R concept. This is a good organiser to use either in a small focused teaching group, or as an individual/pair purposeful reading activity.

How to Work out Words you Don't Know Although this is suited for junior students, it is still a good resource to use with students who are reading at a decoding level below level 15.

Making Connections Students make connections in three different ways (text to self, text to text and text to world).




 * Using my Prior Knowledge to make Predictions**

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Questioning

[[image:nikajo/qar.png width="291" height="262" align="left" caption="qar.png"]] QAR - Question Answer Relationships
Strategy overview - outlines the different question types and shows you in the text how to find it. :) . practice questions - read an extract from Pinocchio and read the questions and decide which type of question it is. :)
 * Professional Reading & ideas on how to implement QAR**
 * Ideas for implementing QAR in the classroom**
 * Text with practice questions** for all question types


 * Think & Search Practise Questions**
 * Author & You Practice Questions** - These are taken from PROBE inference.
 * Other QAR Resources**

Reciprocal Teaching


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Text Structures & Features Top Level Structures

Professional Reading This document below is a great explanation written by Faye Bolton.

A chart which clearly identifies the different top level structures with signaling words & graphic organisers.

Compare & Contrast coming soon...

Problem Solution coming soon...

Cause & Effect This document can be used in pairs/group of 4 where they cut up the different statements (cause & effects) and match them correctly. Students are to verbalise why they thought the statements matched. They may also look for signalling words, or add a signalling word so show the cause & effect relationship.

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 * Sketch to Stretch **

Summarising How to teach students to summarise using their knowledge of Top Level Structure. coming soon (link from Teacher Tube) ....
 * Modelling Video **

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Think Aloud coming soon...

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Decoding
 * //How to Work Out Words You Don't Know//** This is a display of all the strategies students can use to help to work out words they don't know. Idea: Laminate and stick it to the table (or place it in the room where they can see it) so students can make reference to it while they are reading.

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Fluency coming soon...

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