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Delivering Explicit & Engaging Comprehension Mini-Lessons

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Session Content

Introduction to the workshop

Let’s get started! – Handout

Workshop Overview

Yearlong Vision

Dissect the anchor standards for comprehension strategies

Launch the strategies & then spiral instruction

Comprehension Introductions

Strategy #1: Define the strategy verbally and visually

Strategy #2: Reveal a real-world experience

Strategy # 3: Model your Thinking Voice via a Read Aloud

Strategies # 4, 5, & 6: Sing the comprehension song, reveal the hand signals, use a movie clip

Use visual triggers

Strategy # 7: Grow a yearlong bulletin board

The Rest of the Year

Provide explicit strategy instruction

Retell and Summarize

Recall details in chunks

Identify characteristics of text structures

Track across a text

Determine the Main Idea

Discern topic & main idea and explicit & implicit ideas

Determine and use details to infer main idea

Identify revelations and life lessons/theme

Use visual triggers

Visualize Author Ideas

Compare, root, & juggle visualizations

Edit visualizations

“See” evolving story elements

Question Author Choices

Generate, question, & evaluate the argument

Connect Within & Among Texts

Connect and compare the text

Compare texts & fact v. fiction

Synthesize Within & Among Texts

Recognize, generate, & present a synthesis

Conclusion - Wrap-up