Listening and Reading Comprehension Tx. Flashcards
Why is listening difficult to teach?
Because the auditory signal is fleeting
What are some listening comprehension strategies? (3)
- Discuss beliefs about listening
- Promote self-recognition of comprehension difficulties
- Practice recognizing comprehension breakdowns
What beliefs do children with LLD have?
- They often believe the speaker is always right
- They often define good listening in behavioral terms, not in comprehension terms
What do you do before reading the the before, during, and after framework (6)
- Set purpose for reading
- Motivate to read
- Pre-teach key words / concepts
- Start with K, W, H, L chart (know, what, how, learn)
- Activate background knowledge and connect to any experiences
- Predict what will happen and read to verify
During reading, you should stop frequently to… (6)
- Predict what will happen next, then read to verify
- Monitor comprehension & fix breakdowns
- Generate questions over what you are reading (pretend you’re the teacher)
- Fill in a graphic organizer
- State main idea
- Paraphrase and summarize
After reading, students can… (4)
- Respond in active ways (evaluate & extend - write/draw something about it, discuss)
- Relate to other similar readings/experiences
- Review material periodically
- Decide what is most important / the “take home” points
What do you use graphic organizers and text structure to work on?
-Use to explicitly teach test structure AND to scaffold comprehension of texts
What are the three question types?
- Text explicit
- Text implicit
- Scriptal
What is a text explicit question?
It’s right there & easily found in the text
What is a text implicit question?
You need to think and search - it is found in the text, but requires looking in more than one place or must be inferred
What is a scriptal question?
In my head; part of the reader’s prior knowledge or experience
Visualization rests on the premises that… (2)
- Visual memory is stronger than auditory-linguistic
- Good readers “make movies” when they read
What are two structured programs for visualization?
- Visualizing & Verbalizing
- Lindamood-Bell
Best practice / evidence - Improving reading comprehension in K through 3rd grade
- Teach students how to use reading strategies (strong)
- Teach students to identify & use the text’s organizational structure to comprehend, learn, and remember (moderate)
- Establish an engaging and motivating context in which to teach reading comprehension (moderate)
- Select texts purposefully to support comprehension development (min)
- Guide students through focused, high-quality discussion on the meaning of text (min)