Sing Those Strategies!
Engaging Students in Reading Comprehension Strategies
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 1: Beginning LiteracyStage 2: Consolidation / Fluency
Stage 3: Literacy for Growth
Ages:
5-10
Grade Range:
1st 2nd 3rd 4thFood Groups:
Primary:
Reading Comprehension Strategies
Transcript
We're always trying to get our boys and girls to comprehend text. And anything we can do to make it more exciting for them, that's what we do. Here are several of the strategies that we are teaching our boys and girls: to visualize, to infer, to summarize, to use what they already know, and to make predictions. So we came up with this little song called Think. And it goes something like this: you better think, think about what the text is saying to you. You better think, think, think, think about what all the readers do. Oh think, think, think. What do you hear? Think, think. What do you see? Think, think. Woo, think. Think, think.
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Activity Objective
The goal of Sing Those Strategies!: Engaging Students in Reading Comprehension Strategies is to improve students comprehension skills by engaging them through song.
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Additional Comments:
- Through explicit instruction and modeling of each reading strategy, students will develop a greater understanding of strategies used by successful readers.
- Encouraging students to visualize what they have read will help them develop a greater comprehension of the text they are reading.
- Making inferences and drawing conclusions are necessary for readers to develop deeper understandings of the text. Giving students an opportunity to infer about real objects provides an authentic context for learning.
- Predictions refer to making a guess or an inference about what is going to happen. Emphasize the importance of using information from the story as evidence to support predictions. Explicitly show your students how to go back into the text to find information that supports why you think your prediction could be true.
- Have your students think like detectives when they make predictions. Using magnifying glasses as props while making predictions is a fun and motivating way for students to become actively engaged.
- Select a variety of texts and genres for students to summarize.
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