When dealing with students who have trouble with comprehension, it is very important to teach students the skills in order to question themselves throughout his or her reading. It is important for students to learn that it is acceptable to go back and re-read what they just read if they do not understand it or to look up words in the dictionary. I also think that it is important to teach students how to take their own notes while reading because note-taking is not something that comes naturally. In the third grade GLCEs, in fact, there is a section on metacognition that states that:
Metacognition
Students will…
R.MT.03.01 self-monitor comprehension when reading or listening to texts by
automatically applying strategies used by mature readers to increase comprehension
including: predicting, constructing mental images, visually representing ideas in text,
questioning, rereading or listening again if uncertain about meaning, inferring, and
summarizing.
R.MT.03.02 plan, monitor, regulate, evaluate skills, strategies, and processes to construct
and convey meaning, (e.g., decoding unknown words), and use graphic organizers to
deepen understanding of problem/solution and organizational patterns.
and that is all about learning to self question and become a more comprehensive reader.
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It's definitely important for teachers to model monitoring by pausing after important parts of the story and having students summarize and predict what is going to happen next. I also think it's important for students to have practice writing down their thoughts and taking notes while reading. When I was in 6th grade, we would have silent reading time and we would be given post-it notes and we'd be required to use a certain number of them during reading time, and we would write down our thoughts, predictions, questions that arose as we were reading. We would stick the post-it note right on the page we were reading. I think this is really affective because it forces students to monitor their reading, and make sure that they are making sense of the text. That could be a good mini-lesson to do with the students on comprehension! Have you seen your CT doing any of the GLCE's you mentioned?
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