This chapter is about monitoring and revising comprehension. The first thing that really stuck out to me in this chapter is on page 54, "Like surgeons, proficient readers are adaptive." They are able to look at a problem and think through it. They are also able to solve comprehension problems independently. A big part of comprehension and fluency is conferring with students. Especially in primary classrooms, students greatly benefit from conferring. In order for students to become more proficient in comprehension they have to work on some strategies. Some ideas are to make sure students know that when they read and listen they have to make sure that what they are reading makes sense. For this it is important to to think about the characters, setting, plot, conflict, and solution.
These are all strategies that we are using in my classroom. Like in chapter 4, my CT and I confer with our students daily. Our students are still not familiar with comprehension strategies. Later on in the semester we are going to review different comprehension strategies. I think this is important because if you have a student who can read to a high level and then not remember what it was about, then they are not being a successful reader.
I think comprehension and fluency work together as well as being different. I think comprehension is thinking about the details in the book and and recognizing the different parts of the text. Fluency is important because students need to read at a rate where they can understand the text. These two things work together.
I like how you talked about meeting with students to review comprehension strategies. I was just wondering how you went about doing that. In my classroom we take students out during Daily 5 time but I was courious to see what methods other classes used for doing this.
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