I am currently in the my fifth year of teaching and I have seen the same
thing. Our districts focus the last few years has been on Reading fluency.
This year I have had 3rd graders coming into my classroom, who are trying
to read so fast that they don't even realize when the decoding breaks down
and what they are saying doesn't make sense. I encourage my students to
stop reading periodically and think about what they just read about and
visualize "the movie in their head". If they can't, then they should go
back and reread. Also, have students draw a picture of what they read
about helps them with this. We spend the first few weeks of school focusing
on visualiztion. I would like to read that article, it sounds interesting.
Where did you find it?
Have a nice day!
Tomi Dodson
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From: Jennifer Hartkopf <[email protected]>
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Date: 4/7/2009 02:27PM
Subject: [MOSAIC] Reading Comprehension
Hi! My name is Jennifer and I am currently a student at Wayne State
University. I recently read an article that I found to be true in the
class that I did my pre-student teaching. A lot of students would read
with fairly good fluency, but when confronted with comprehension and
critical thinking questions they were unable to participate. Is this a
problem in other classes and are there strategies/activities to try to
overcome this? I would like to have strong readers as well as strong
comprehenders in my classroom.
Thanks!
Jennifer Hartkopf
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