A fellow teacher is working on an assignment with her class in which students respond to othere poeple's responses and asked me to read a short story and respond to it. I found myself reflecting on the comprehension strategies I use while reading. I realize that I do stop often and ask myself questions. I also connect the text to my other experiences.
My point in telling this is that I need to work with my students on recognizing what strategies they use while reading and teach them more of these new strategies.
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Do you think a strategy like that would work as well with a textbook type reading? I can see it working with articles especially if the students have some prior knowledge to draw from. Maybe we could work together on helping the students understand textbook type reading assignments.
I am glad you reminded me about this. At the beginning of the year I administered a brief survey about reading strategies my students already employed (which were scant), but I never developed the student responses into a plan of action. We also discussed this at some RAISSE meetings, though in the context of which strategies teachers use. I feel my students could really benefit from a metacognitive awareness of their literacy skills, but I don’t know what the most effective approach to this would be. Has anyone successfully attempted a reading strategies experiment with their classes and is willing to help out? Of course, the ultimate goal is to tailor instruction to help individual students grow in the areas they lack or fine-tune the strengths they already possess, but I’m willing to start small.
Me too! It's crazy how I sometimes catch myself reflecting on my reading as I'm reading. It's like
I'm making connections, making predictions, and thinking about my strategies all at the sametime. Which might be what everyone does but I've never thought about it until now. As I catch myself reflecting, I also catch myself thinking, I wish my kids did this. They might already do it, but if they recognized that they did it, they would probably think about other ways to improve their reading. You've given me some thoughts, Debra. I wonder if we could convince our kids to track the strategies they use? tricky.
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