Teaching Strategies from Michael Opitz handout at WSRA 2006
He refers you Yopp and Yopp 1996 for additional ideas.
Tip: when first introducing student to a new teaching strategy, use a familiar text so that you and the students can focus on the new strategy.
6 Before-reading Teaching strategies.
Anticipation guide – Students read statements before reading the text.
Brainstorming [...]
Monitoring comprehension
Readers need explicit instruction to:
· Become aware of their thinking as they read
· Listen to their inner voice and notice when they veer away from an inner conversation with the text
· Detect obstacles and confusions that derail understanding
· Understanding how strategies can help repair meaning when it breaks down.
We explicitly teach readers to:
· Track [...]
The book is the greatest interactive medium of all time. You can underline t, Write in the Margins, fold down a page, and skip ahead. And you can take it anywhere.
Michael Lynton
The Components of Active Literacy
Reading, writing, talking, listening and investigating to engage in the world of issues and ideas, to enhance understanding and to [...]
Stephanie Harvey – comprehension – notes from 2-5-06
Comprehension is having an inner conversation with yourself in your head while reading.
· The number one way – talk about it
· Active literacy
o Readers need to be significantly more active
o teachers are doing too much of the work in school
o Students should be doing most of the work
Purposeful [...]
