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102 Reading Response Lessons

Improving Comprehension Skills for Test Day--and Beyond

By: Kristin Noelle Wolfgang

Empower your students to skillfully analyze and respond in writing to any comprehension question!

Helping students learn reading comprehension is a challenging goal. Even more daunting is helping them answer comprehension questions in writing. This innovative resource presents a classroom-tested process for use across content areas and requiring only two 30-minute weekly sessions. Using the built-in scaffolding, students learn to dismantle even the most challenging comprehension questions and respond in clear, sophisticated paragraphs. Rubrics empower them to:

Analyze and respond effectively in writing to comprehension questions
Develop critical vocabulary skills
Learn to assess their work
Recognize what constitutes powerful writing

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Product Details

Grade Level: PreK-12
ISBN: 9781412925518
Published By: Corwin
Year: 2005
Page Count: 312
Publication date: November 30, 2005

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Description

Empower your students to skillfully analyze and respond in writing to any comprehension question!

Helping students comprehend what they read is a challenging goal, but even more daunting is teaching students to answer comprehension questions in writing. Based on the author's interactions with her students, this innovative text presents a five-step method that has proven not only to help students improve their literacy skills for standardized tests but also, and more important, to help them respond to what they read in your classroom and beyond.

This resource presents a process that requires only two 30-minute sessions per week and can be used across content areas and grade levels. Using the built-in scaffolding, students quickly learn how to dismantle even the most challenging comprehension questions and respond to them in clear, sophisticated paragraphs. Numerous rubrics are included, empowering students to:

Analyze and respond effectively in writing to comprehension questions
Develop and enhance critical vocabulary skills
Learn to assess their own work
Recognize what constitutes powerful writing

Enhance your students' ability and confidence to skillfully analyze and respond in writing to any comprehension question!

Key features

§ Standards-based, six-trait writing model focus

§ Requires only 30 minutes, two times a week

§ 129 sample comprehension questions

§ Can be used with the books already being used in class

§ Allows for teacher flexibility/input but requires minimal teacher preparation time

§ Useful across content areas

§ Numerous reproducibles

ü Scoring rubrics

ü Student worksheets/organizational tools

§ Numerous student response samples

§ Strategies have been classroom tested and refined.

Author(s)

Kristin Noelle Wolfgang

Kristin Wolfgang currently teaches at Ka’u High and Pahala Elementary in Pahala, Hawai’i and serves as the grade level chair. She is a member of her school’s inservice training team and has also served as a cooperating teacher for preservice teachers. Wolfgang is a member of the Hawai’i Island Writer’s Association (HIWA), the Hawai’i Island and International Reading Association (IRA). She writes short fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, and essays, and is a founding member of the Sundae Writers.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Section 1: Guiding Reading Response in Your Classroom

1. An Introduction

2. Planning and Implementation

3. Lesson Plans

4. One Rubric for Every Response

5. Data Collection

6. Suggested Texts

7. Anchor Pieces for Selected Questions

8. Independent Reading Logs

Section 2: Comprehension (An Understanding of What Was Read)

9. Comprehension of Narrative Texts

10. Comprehension of Informational Texts

11. Comprehension of Functional Texts

Section 3: Application (Organization, Clarification, Conclusions)

12. Application of Narrative Texts

13. Application of Informational Texts

14. Application of Functional Texts

Section 4: Analysis (Compare Content to Personal Experiences)

15. Analysis of Narrative Texts

16. Analysis of Informational Texts

17. Analysis of Functional Texts

Section 5: Synthesis (Organizing the Content in New Ways)

18. Synthesis of Narrative Texts

19. Synthesis of Informational Texts

20. Synthesis of Functional Texts

Section 6: Evaluation (Making a Judgment)

21. Evaluation of Narrative Texts

22. Evaluation of Informational Texts

23. Evaluation of Functional Texts

Resources

Index

Other Titles in: Summative Assessment & Testing | Literacy, K-12

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