Cheryl Hutchinson M Ed Loudoun County Public Schools National Board Certified Teacher Candidate Support Provider LCPS Staff Development August 31 2009 Why me Why this topic Who are you ID: 634128
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What Makes Good Readers Great and Poor Readers Weak?
Cheryl Hutchinson, M. Ed.Loudoun County Public SchoolsNational Board Certified TeacherCandidate Support ProviderLCPS Staff DevelopmentAugust 31, 2009Slide2Slide3Slide4Slide5Slide6
Why me?
Why this topic?Who are you?Slide7
Goals for our session today…..
What is literacy? What do good readers do that make them great? review how the human brain works dependent readers vs. independent readers
Why do poor readers struggle?
tips for remembering what you read
reading strategiesSlide8
Are you a literate person?Slide9
Are you sure???
Your father is in the hospital. To educate yourself on his condition you read medical journals and articles.Here is one of the opening sentences you read:“The endosteum (en-dos-tee-
uhm
)
is the vascular connective tissue lining the marrow cavities of the bones.”Slide10
Let’s try another a few more…
You buy an unassembled piece of furniture and encounter these instructions:“Fasten flange G to tie-rod Q using hex nut R and a socket wrench.”Slide11
8
th grade math book:“Write a compound inequality for the range of normal body temp.“Explain the difference between the words and and or in a compound inequality.
6
th
grade science book:
“A very unusual protozoan is the euglena
(yoo-glee-nuh). It is bright green. A euglena moves by using a thread-like whip. Euglenas eat bacteria, other protozoan, and plant-like living things. But they can also make food. Notice the euglena has chloroplasts.
HUH?Slide12
Are you a
dependent reader or aindependent reader?ActivitySlide13
When the text gets tough…
Dependent Readers…StopAppeal to the teacherRead on through/SkipKeep the mostly invisible process of comprehension at the invisible levelLack confidence and reluctant to go onIndependent Readers…
Figure out what’s confusing them
Set goals for getting through the reading
Use many strategies to create understanding
Have confidence to persevere
When Kids Can’t Read
by Kylene BeersSlide14
What makes a good reader great?ActivitySlide15
What Good Readers Do
- Kylene Beers Recognize the purpose for reading is to get meaning Use of a variety of comprehension strategies
Make
Inferences
Use of
prior knowledge
Monitor
understanding
Question
author’s purpose and point of view
Evaluate
their engagement and enjoyment
Know the
meaning
of many words
Read
fluentlySlide16
A Quick Peak At Our Brain
Highly VisualSeeks Patterns EmotionalNeeds Relevance
Remembers 70% When Practicing
Remembers 90+% When Teaching Someone ElseSlide17
6th
grade science book: “A very unusual protozoan is the euglena (yoo-glee-nuh). It is bright green. A euglena moves by using a thread-like whip. Euglenas eat bacteria, other protozoan, and plant-like living things. But they can also make food. Notice the euglena has chloroplasts. Slide18
euglena
protozoan
bright green
moves by using a thread-like whip
eats bacteria
makes food
chloroplastsSlide19
Top Ten Tips to Help Struggling Readers
- Molly NessPrepare students BEFORE reading.Support students DURING reading.
Help readers extend meaning
AFTER
reading
Scaffold
summary writing.
Ask quality
comprehension questions
.
Model
metacognition
Arm them with
study strategies
Integrate
writing
everywhere.
Provide explicitly
vocabulary
instruction.
Increase fluency
to increase comprehension.Slide20
8 Tips to Remember What You Read
- Dr. Bill KlemmSet and read with a purposeSkim first.Get the reading
mechanics
right (decoding and fluency).
Be judicious in
highlighting and note taking
Think in
pictures
Rehearse
as you go along
Stay within your
attention span
and work to increase that span.
Rehearse
again
soon
ActivitySlide21
Researcher Marzano indicates that a student needs to interact at least SIX times with a word, concept or skill for 50% retention/understanding to take place.
Before/During/AfterSlide22
What does it mean to
pre-read?Slide23
What does it mean to
actively read?Slide24
Resources
Reader’s Handbook by Great Source Education GroupWhen Kids Can’t Read by Kylene BeersReading Reasons by Kelly GallagherBrain Matters by Patricia WolfeSlide25
If you remember nothing else…
Read, Read, Read – to them, with them, listening to them read Use Before, During and After reading strategies The brain is highly visual The brain remembers 75% of what it practices and 90+% of what it teaches
Provide your students with a wide variety of strategies
to comprehend what they are reading
Allow your students to co-create meaning and learning
therefore teaching themselves and others