All You Need To Teach Comprehension 10+
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D et e r m i n e mai n idea<br />
Strategy<br />
description<br />
<strong>Teach</strong>er prompts<br />
Student thinks<br />
@ Occurs when readers are able to identify the important ideas in the text.<br />
@ In narrative texts, readers can place important events in sequence to accurately<br />
support text meaning.<br />
@ In information texts, readers can identify the main ideas and the supporting facts.<br />
What are the important things from this text?<br />
What are the key ideas?<br />
What are the main ideas that the author wants you to remember?<br />
Can you find the supporting details for this idea?<br />
What did the author tell you about this idea?<br />
Can you put the main ideas in an order that makes sense?<br />
Can you summarise what this is about?<br />
When I retell, the sequence is important.<br />
I understand the order of events.<br />
The main ideas are in an order that helps me to understand.<br />
The most important information is . . .<br />
The key points are . . .<br />
I can find some facts about the main ideas.<br />
The things I need to learn or remember about this are . . .<br />
I can sum this up by saying . . .<br />
The blurb on the back cover could say . . .<br />
S yn t h esi s e<br />
Strategy<br />
description<br />
<strong>Teach</strong>er prompts<br />
Student thinks<br />
@ Occurs when readers integrate what they know with new information from the text.<br />
@ Proficient readers understand that they know more after reading than they<br />
knew before. They integrate prior knowledge with support material from the text<br />
(pictures, captions, diagrams, maps, tables, glossary, etc) and the running words.<br />
What do you already know about this? What do you expect to learn from a text<br />
like this?<br />
What features does this book have to help you to understand it?<br />
What other parts of this book might help you to understand?<br />
Remember to look at the pictures and other supports before you start reading.<br />
What do you know now that you didn’t know before?<br />
As you read, remember to add new information to what you already know.<br />
How has your thinking changed since you read this?<br />
Does the new information match what you already know?<br />
I start by thinking about what I already know.<br />
I can add to what I know by looking at the pictures and reading the words.<br />
I can use what I know to help me to understand new things.<br />
As I read, I need to combine new information with what I already know.<br />
Does this information seem accurate or correct? Have I read about, seen or heard<br />
things that agree or disagree with this?<br />
When I have finished reading, I know more.<br />
After reading, I think about what I have read and what I have learned.<br />
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