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Use our links on the left to look for books to read to your child or class. An emphasisis placed on thinking strategies that will lead our students to deeper understanding of what they read. Check out the tools and research found under teacher tools and comprehension links.
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This allows your child to read a library book along with the animated version online. Listen on line, then read the book from our Emma King Library! (see link on left)
We use strategies to help readers comprehend at a deeper level. We study good writing samples to help us become better writers who express ideas with clarity. Click here for a plethora of lessons, explanations, ideas, research on every strategy!
- Monitoring Comprehension: School Web Page
--listening to the voice inside your head that allows you to know when something is making sense or not making sense.
--knowing what fix-up strategies you can use to get you back on track - Using Schema (a fancy word for prior knowledge): School Web Page
--we make connections to the text through our own experience, world connections and connections to other texts or films or art. - Asking questions: |
--good readers question the text, their beliefs, their experience as they read.
--Use a Q chart to develop higher level questions. - Determining Importance:
--what is most important, what is not; why is it important - Visualizing: what do we see in our minds while we read, how does this help us to understand and make connections to the text
- Inferring:
--making meaning from the information the author gives us and from our own thinking. We make connections to the ideas and develop a personal understanding. By talking to others, we can extend our understanding, even if we hear ideas with which we do not agree. - Synthesizing:
--this is the change of ideas, or confirmation of ideas that combine new information with our previous beliefs or ideas or knowledge. [Top] - Point of View: NEW!
--Every author writes for a purpose and his/her point of view is evident in how he/she presents the message. Students are taught to identify the author's point of view, what other points of view are presented or are missing, and to detect bias in the article. This page also focuses on media literacy and how critical thinking is vital in not being led astray by gimmicks and tricks. - Media Literacy NEW! This site has links to practical lessons for children and adults. There is a power point for background information about media and the impact it has on our children and older viewers. Effective strategies are highlighted for use in the classroom. Please use the games in your class as part of the point of view lessons.