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Classroom Strategies
Explicit strategy instruction is at the core of good comprehension instruction. "Before" strategies activate students' prior knowledge and set a purpose for reading. "During" strategies help students make connections, monitor their understanding, generate questions, and stay focused. "After" strategies provide students an opportunity to summarize, question, reflect, discuss, and respond to text.
Teachers should help students to understand why a strategy is useful, how it is used, and when it is appropriate. Teacher demonstration and modeling are critical factors for success, and student discussion following strategy instruction is also helpful.
The most frequently researched strategies can be applied across content areas; other content-area specific strategies are emerging, and we will include them here in the future.
Sum, Sum, Sum It Up!
One of the main goals of reading is to possess the ability to understand, or comprehend, what you have just read. A great strategy to help children comprehend text is to teach them how to summarize.
ReadingQuest | Reading Strategies for Social Studies
Strategies for reading comprehension in social studies
blooms taxonomy
PURPOSE
To apply Bloom's theory of developing higher levels of thought processes to everyday classroom reading.
SUMMARIZATION STRATEGY
Appropriate Grade Level: 4th to 12th Grade
Purpose: Improve understanding of expository materials by summarizing the main ideas.
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What are summarization strategies?
A summary is a brief statement or set of statements used to show how a reader has condensed information to get to the central message of a larger chunk of information. Sometimes this central message is called the gist of the text. A summarization strategy is a set of steps that a student follows to determine the gist of the chunk of information that is being summarized. Different summarization strategies may be required for different types of text and different lengths of text.
What is Reading Comprehension?
What is reading comprehension?
Reading comprehension is the process of constructing meaning from text. The goal of all reading instruction is ultimately targeted at helping a reader comprehend text. Reading comprehension involves at least two people: the reader and the writer. The process of comprehending involves decoding the writer's words and then using background knowledge to construct an approximate understanding of the writer's message.
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Guided Comprehension: Summarizing Using the QuIP Strategy
A majority of students in grades 4 to 6 are beyond decoding instruction and need more assistance with comprehension to help them become successful, independent readers. Strategic reading allows students to monitor their own thinking and make connections between texts and their own experiences. Based on the Guided Comprehension Model developed by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen, this lesson introduces students to the comprehension strategy of summarizing. Students learn how to summarize information using the QuIP (questions into paragraphs) strategy, a technique that involves graphically organizing information and synthesizing it in writing.
Summarization Station
Rationale: Children will learn to summarize text they are reading. This lesson will teach students how to summarize what they are reading and ultimately learn how to find meaning of what they have read. Summarization is an important literacy goal because it helps students to understand what has been read. It also helps students to remember the important information in the reading.
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