Comprehension
INTERVENTIONS
Highlighting for Understanding of Complex Text http://www.radteach.com/page1/page8/page11/page11.html
GoalBook Activity: Highlighting
Highlighting could include highlighting key words/phrases, key points or arguments or text structures such as headings. This adaptation can assist students in locating the key information in a written passage or narrow down the focus of the text that the student is expected to read. Color-coding can be used to visually distinguish between different categories of key information.
Examples:
Language Arts: When reading an essay or article that presents an argument, each claim and its related supporting evidence can be highlighted in a different color.
Implementation:
After students have highlighted chapter and section headings from the text, the teacher can instruct them to highlight 2-3 important facts from each section. Students needing additional assistance with locating facts can be paired with another student.
For students requiring assistance in locating information, the teacher can highlight the paragraph or sentence that the information is in.
For students who are emerging readers, the teacher can highlight key information in the text and provide a graphic organizer highlighted in corresponding colors for the student to record the information.
Intervention Central Activity: Encouraging Use of Text Enhancements (Hedin & Conderman, 2010). Text enhancements can be used to tag important vocabulary terms, key ideas, or other reading content. If working with photocopied material, the student can use a highlighter--but should limit highlighting to important text elements such as main idea and key vocabulary terms. Another enhancement strategy is the ‘lasso and rope’ technique—using a pen or pencil to circle a vocabulary term and then drawing a line that connects that term to its underlined definition. If working from a textbook, the student can cut sticky notes into strips. These strips can be inserted in the book as pointers to text of interest. They can also be used as temporary labels—e.g., for writing a vocabulary term and its definition.
App to support
Graphic Organizers as a Reading Strategy
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=19813
Reading Rockets
Teach note-taking skills and summarizing strategies
Use graphic organizers that help students break information down and keep tack of what they read.
Florida Center for Reading Research INTERVENTION
Text Structure http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/G4-5/45CPartOne.pdf
GoalBook: Implementation Tips
Assign a Story Map as a group project and have each student responsible for a single element.
Use pictures along with text in a Graphic Organizer.
When using a Venn Diagram, have students find a pictures of plants and animals and place them in correct section
Apps to Support
13 Scientifically Based Reasons to Use Read-Alouds
https://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00522/chapter2.pdf
GoalBook Read-Alouds:
Read Aloud refers to presenting written text in an auditory format. The teacher can read aloud to the class or students can take turns reading aloud to each other. The written text can be presented through an audio recording (e.g. tape, CD, MP3) or through the use of text to speech software. Having access to the text via audio does eliminate the need to read the text itself. The student can be exposed to the read aloud version before they engage in reading it themselves to facilitate comprehension. Alternately, they can listen to the read aloud as they are reading the text to facilitate accurate decoding.
Implementation Tips
INTERVENTIONS
Highlighting for Understanding of Complex Text http://www.radteach.com/page1/page8/page11/page11.html
GoalBook Activity: Highlighting
Highlighting could include highlighting key words/phrases, key points or arguments or text structures such as headings. This adaptation can assist students in locating the key information in a written passage or narrow down the focus of the text that the student is expected to read. Color-coding can be used to visually distinguish between different categories of key information.
Examples:
Language Arts: When reading an essay or article that presents an argument, each claim and its related supporting evidence can be highlighted in a different color.
Implementation:
After students have highlighted chapter and section headings from the text, the teacher can instruct them to highlight 2-3 important facts from each section. Students needing additional assistance with locating facts can be paired with another student.
For students requiring assistance in locating information, the teacher can highlight the paragraph or sentence that the information is in.
For students who are emerging readers, the teacher can highlight key information in the text and provide a graphic organizer highlighted in corresponding colors for the student to record the information.
Intervention Central Activity: Encouraging Use of Text Enhancements (Hedin & Conderman, 2010). Text enhancements can be used to tag important vocabulary terms, key ideas, or other reading content. If working with photocopied material, the student can use a highlighter--but should limit highlighting to important text elements such as main idea and key vocabulary terms. Another enhancement strategy is the ‘lasso and rope’ technique—using a pen or pencil to circle a vocabulary term and then drawing a line that connects that term to its underlined definition. If working from a textbook, the student can cut sticky notes into strips. These strips can be inserted in the book as pointers to text of interest. They can also be used as temporary labels—e.g., for writing a vocabulary term and its definition.
App to support
- Liner - Mobile Web Highlighter & Annotator and Book-marker https://appsto.re/us/-XI84.i
Graphic Organizers as a Reading Strategy
http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?paperID=19813
Reading Rockets
Teach note-taking skills and summarizing strategies
Use graphic organizers that help students break information down and keep tack of what they read.
Florida Center for Reading Research INTERVENTION
Text Structure http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/PDF/G4-5/45CPartOne.pdf
GoalBook: Implementation Tips
Assign a Story Map as a group project and have each student responsible for a single element.
Use pictures along with text in a Graphic Organizer.
When using a Venn Diagram, have students find a pictures of plants and animals and place them in correct section
Apps to Support
- Tools 4 Students https://appsto.re/us/Y1amC.i
- Comic Life https://appsto.re/us/AeaYz.i
13 Scientifically Based Reasons to Use Read-Alouds
https://www.heinemann.com/shared/onlineresources/E00522/chapter2.pdf
GoalBook Read-Alouds:
Read Aloud refers to presenting written text in an auditory format. The teacher can read aloud to the class or students can take turns reading aloud to each other. The written text can be presented through an audio recording (e.g. tape, CD, MP3) or through the use of text to speech software. Having access to the text via audio does eliminate the need to read the text itself. The student can be exposed to the read aloud version before they engage in reading it themselves to facilitate comprehension. Alternately, they can listen to the read aloud as they are reading the text to facilitate accurate decoding.
Implementation Tips
- For students who are auditory learners, give the student a CD of the textbook
- For students who have a visual disability or do not read, provide text-to-speech software such as Natural Reader to present written materials in an auditory version.
- For students who require multiple readings of a passage to strengthen comprehension, rotating peers can be assigned to read the material a second time with the student.
- When doing popcorn reading, students who are reluctant to read aloud can be given a highlighted passage ahead of time in order to prepare. The teacher can choose that student for the prepared passage.
- iBooks - listen to text - highlight unknown words - look up meaning of unknown words
- Read2Go https://appsto.re/us/VZExz.i goes with Bookshare account
- ICDL - Free Books for Children - International Children's Digital Library https://appsto.re/us/2QHRv.i