It is very important for young readers to be able to comprehend the text that they are reading. If a student does not comprehend the text they are working with, then the student will gain no meaning from it and the readings will have no effect on them. The building blocks of comprehension are the ability to decode words, a productive fluency, a rich background knowledge, and an accurate vocabulary. A teacher can help push a students comprehension by asking general questions about the novel, creating activities to urge students to make their own meanings, and working one on one with the child to assist their reading abilities and appropriate text choices.
According to the readings this week by Gill, it is important for teachers to follow the comprehension matrix. The teacher should do prereading activities first. Prereading activities can include general questions about the topics that are about to be read or filling out a graphic organizer such as a K-W-L chart. During the reading of the text, students can fill out a reading guide worksheet during silent reading, or the teacher can have students read a part of the reading silently and then discuss that section as a class. In order to ensure comprehension, postreading activities such as making a timeline of the event, a newspaper report, a letter, a diary entry, a poem, a fake newscast, or anything else that requires using the knowledge they've accumulated to form something new can be used.
This video shows a basic way to help students with
comprehension: questions.
The basic idea of comprehension is that the student understands what they are reading, and that the student is not just mindlessly paddling through.
What would you do in your classroom to ensure reading comprehension?
How important is good comprehension skills to the future lives of your students?
Comprehension skills are very important for my future students. It is one of the most important factors or learning to read, and being able to do so fluently. If you can't comprehend text that you have read, how will you be able to apply it to other parts of learning? I plan to do many activities in my future classroom to make sure my students have excellent comprehension skills, especially books clubs. This activity would allow students to apply what they share how they feel about stories to other students in the classroom, which would ultimately increase the comprehension skills of all the students over time.
I love that visual of the foundation of comprehension. Thanks for including that. I love the idea of having a fake newscast! I never did that in my classroom but I think my kids would have loved it. I think USING information we glean from text is so important.
Comprehension skills are very important for my future students. It is one of the most important factors or learning to read, and being able to do so fluently. If you can't comprehend text that you have read, how will you be able to apply it to other parts of learning? I plan to do many activities in my future classroom to make sure my students have excellent comprehension skills, especially books clubs. This activity would allow students to apply what they share how they feel about stories to other students in the classroom, which would ultimately increase the comprehension skills of all the students over time.
ReplyDeleteI love that visual of the foundation of comprehension. Thanks for including that. I love the idea of having a fake newscast! I never did that in my classroom but I think my kids would have loved it. I think USING information we glean from text is so important.
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