Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades Debbie Miller
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This dissertation is a year long study in a third grade classroom that documents and examines how students construct meaning in three participation structures—Shared Reading, Guided Reading, and dialogically organized literature By providing characterizations of reading comprehension for each structure, the study aims to further our understanding of the affordances and limitations of these participation structures in terms of students' development of reading comprehension. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers. When I taught primary, I often spoke about developing decoding skills. When I first started teaching the comprehension strategies Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades was my bible! Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Diller *. Lesaux suggests four ways in which morphology become an instructional tool for all students. Kids'Poems: Teaching First Graders to Love Writing Poetry. As a Grade 6 teacher, I'll be administering EQAO — a standardized test — at the end of May, and almost the entire reading component of this test is based on reading comprehension. Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades. In my view, as a former elementary teacher and principal, the standards overestimate the intellectual, physiological, and emotional development of young children, asking them to think analytically as they read or write, extract subtle meanings from a text, and make fine distinctions within and By the end of 2nd grade, a key goal should be that students are able to read independently with automaticity and flow to ensure that their focus can be freed for comprehension. Now I have a diverse group of Grade 6 students, all of whom can decode at grade level, but many of whom struggle sharing deep thoughts about the texts that they read. In a recent study of a group of elementary school students – many of whom are English language learners – HGSE Assistant Professor Nonie Lesaux examined how some student readers use this insight to build a successful reading strategy. Here, for instance, is the opening page from Peggy Parish's No More Monsters for Me!, which I recently chose for a small group of second grade students who all seemed stuck at Level J. For as long They need to read for meaning. Many children who enter kindergarten with little or no English language skill successfully learn to read and comprehend text during the early grades. The GLE component 2.3 is based on comprehension objectives; however, teaching alliteration as a phonemic awareness skill is equally important. Posted on June 4, 2013 by admin. Home · About The students' comprehension is then checked during the post-reading discussion—not as they read, which is, in fact, when they're actually constructing whatever meaning they're making of the text.