Books used to teach prediction

Books that teach the comprehension strategy:  prediction

My FAVORITE BOOK:  http://writingeverydayworks.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/suddenly-by-colin-mcnaughton/ 

http://enjoy-embracelearning.blogspot.com/2010/11/dinnertime.html

http://enjoy-embracelearning.blogspot.com/2010/11/for-just-one-day.html

The Questioning Circle by Jeffrey Wilhelm

Jeff writes about the strategy of the questioning circle on pages 124-129.             He models this strategy with the book Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak         Jeff encourages teachers to use the gradual release model of I do, we do, you do.    First, he posed the essential inquiry question related to his unit.  Then he introduced the concept of learning the questioning circle.  Jeff has kids discuss ME questions that are based on their experiences.  You bring your prior knowledge to the reading.  You bring you to the book.  Book questions are next.  World questions are third.  Teacher models first.  Then students work with the teacher and each other to generate questions, then they try alone or with one or two other partners.  How about combing questions?  For more specific examples of the questions see Wilhelm’s chart on page 128.  He lists the questions that link to the book, Where the Wild Things Are and makes this example come alive!

Units of Study: Retelling

This website is developing ideas for units of study for reading. 

This unit encourages students to check for understanding or confusion:  http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/strategies-for-checking-comprehension/ 

This unit encourages students to check for retelling:  http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/readers-think-and-talk-to-grow-ideas/

This unit encourages students to realize that they have thoughts as they read.  http://bestbookihavenotread.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/readers-think-and-talk-to-grow-ideas/

Teaching Genre

To ensure that kids understand genres, many teachers have a flip chart listing the characteristics.  What ones are required by your state standards?  Read a book during a read-aloud, then go over the characteristics of that genre.  Do the students know the characteristics?  Do the students recognize the genre off the shelf? 

 

http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/  This link has posters similiar to this one.

Sunday, February 22 Comprehension Strategy: Thinking Theme

See you there!  International Reading Association in Phoenix.  Pat Cunningham and I will talk about how to do the Thinking Theme Strategy.  We have movie footage of students.  It is awesome!

Mysteries Detective Unit

http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/

This website has wonderful Mystery genre unit.

Michael Pressley Comprehension Strategies

This was more advice I wrote down listening to Mike lecture about comprehension strategies.

Advice from Michael Pressley regarding First Grade:
If, over the course of a school year, you can get children to learn three or four of these strategies and be using them, a great year. I would start with prediction, then imagery, then connections, and finally, summarizing. Something the teacher should do with every read-aloud—and there should be lots of read-alouds in grade 1—is to model use of the strategies for the students. Think-aloud as you read a story, making predictions, talking about images that come to mind, formulating questions (and noting when the questions are answered in the text), seeking clarification if something is confusing, making connections, and summarizing.

Beanie Baby Comprehension Strategies

Decoding of Fix-It Strategies Beanies
Stretchy Snake
Chunky Monkey
Helpful Kangaroo
Lips the Fish
Tryin’ Lion
Skippy the Frog
Eagle Eye

Comprehension Beanies
Spinner the Spider
Questioning Owl
Rocky Raccoon
Digger the Dog
Iggy the Inferring Iguana
Jabber the Reteller (Parrot)
Fix Up Bear

http://realclassroomideas.com/194.html

lesson using beanie babies