Angela Jackson - Ch. 8 Teach Comprehension

          The passage begins by stating that in order to end up with comprehension, you must begin with comprehension. Often teachers miss the mark by focusing on words and not the meaning of the text. The Close reading procedures are a way to help teach reading for deep understanding, but its up to the teacher to monitor the student's progress with this skill.

           The author warns teachers to be careful about how comprehension is        taught. Far too many teachers are focusing solely on the seven reading   strategies that they are making reading harder rather than easier to comprehend. One thing that made me realize that I need to be careful with teaching comprehension is the fact that students are not comprehending what they read just because they can read fluently and read the words on the page. The passage states that without our direct modeling and intervention, our students routinely skip words they can't read or don't understand, continue reading even when they don't know what's going on in the text, and they almost never reread for clarification. 

          Lastly, teachers should use caution of how much time they are spending teaching about making connections, reading fluently. Instead, split time between explicit instruction and application. Key strategies to use are predicting, questioning, creating images, seeking clarification, and constructing summaries. Lastly, the author states that teachers should make rereading the single most useful strategy. In addition, use writing to help recall key points in the text.