For this week, I chose to focus on the readings from Gregory (Kindergartners can do it too!) and Pardo (What every teacher needs to know about comprehension). After reading these articles, I began to realize how complicated the process of comprehension is. Luckily, Gregory's article provides ways to help teach comprehension skills to young children and Pardo's article takes a closer look at comprehension to help teachers better understand it to be able to teach it. Overall, both articles proved to be useful in providing methods of teaching reading comprehension. The key is to understanding comprehension is looking at the various components of it, such as the reader, the text, and the teacher's role in teaching the text. As seen in Gregory's article, in Mrs Hope classroom, we see a successful attempt of teaching reading comprehension to young readers. By focusing on comprehension strategies like: schema (what we know), visualization, making connections, asking questions, and infer when interacting with texts, comprehension can be taught to young children, just like older children.
Here is an example of a reading comprehension activity that can be used in a classroom:
What interactive/fun ways do you think you can teach reading comprehension in your future classroom?
Pardo's article mentioned Book Clubs as a way to promote comprehension in the classroom. Do you think this is a good method? What are some other activities you could use in your future classroom?
Including Book Clubs in the classroom is a great way to promote comprehension because each student feels obligated to understand what they are reading so they can discuss it amongst their peers. Another great activity that Pardo mentioned was reading aloud in the classroom. Reading aloud and asking students questions while doing so really promotes their comprehension.
Great question! I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on book clubs. Do you think that your book clubs we have done in class have helped with comprehension? Even though you understand the text, have book clubs helped you extend your thinking?
Including Book Clubs in the classroom is a great way to promote comprehension because each student feels obligated to understand what they are reading so they can discuss it amongst their peers. Another great activity that Pardo mentioned was reading aloud in the classroom. Reading aloud and asking students questions while doing so really promotes their comprehension.
ReplyDeleteGreat question! I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on book clubs. Do you think that your book clubs we have done in class have helped with comprehension? Even though you understand the text, have book clubs helped you extend your thinking?
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