facilitating students' comprehension: reader factors
Comprehension is affected by both reader factors and text factors.
How Effective Teachers Facilitate Students’ Comprehension
How Effective Teachers Facilitate Students’ Comprehension
- Teachers understand that comprehension is a process involving reader factors and text factors.
- Teachers ensure that students have background knowledge, vocabulary, and fluency, the prerequisites for comprehension.
- Teachers understand how comprehension strategies support students’ understanding of texts they read.
- Teachers teach students how to use comprehension strategies and skills.
- Teachers nurture students’ motivation and engagement in literacy activities.
Share your passion
Share your Passion for Reading Through:
- Your conversation about books you have read.
- The examples you use in your mini-lessons.
- The book talks you give.
- The written reading responses you model for students.
- The enthusiastic way you talk about books in the classroom.
- The excitement you show, in general, about books.
into the book: strategies for learning
Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies:
- Using prior knowledge
- Making connections
- Questioning
- Visualizing
- Inferring
- Summarizing
- Evaluating
- Synthesizing
- student Web site featuring interactive reading comprehension activities
- teacher Web site featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and lots more
- Into the Book video series: nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers
- Behind the Lesson video series: nine 10-minute professional development videos that model effective ways of teaching the learning strategies