5 Components of Reading Instruction

PhonicsPhonemic AwarenessVocabularyFluencyComprehension

Comprehension instruction in the primary grades is not only possible but wise and beneficial rather than detrimental to overall reading development.Pearson & Duke, Comprehension Instruction: Research-Based Best Practices (2002)

Stop and Draw

Every time you come to a comparison in a book – STOP AND DRAW.

STOP and DRAW

the following comparisons

1.A grizzly bear can grow to be longer than a sofa.

2.A grizzly can weigh as much as 10 grown-ups.

Please add labels to your drawings.

One person must look at the screen

One person must turn away from the screen.

adapted from Lori Oczkus

Polar Bears

Predict the Words Take one minute to look at a book Use the features of text as you look List 3 – 5 words that you think you

will see in this book Focus on specific nouns and vivid

verbs

adapted from Lori Oczkus

Grizzly habitat

Questions that I have after a book look.

Answers that I found in the text. Please give answer & page #

Answers that I found by using my schema, inferences, and author information.

Question/ Answer / Infer

adaped from Lori Oczkus

Winnie the Pooh

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me. Chapter 4, 1926

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for people

for animals

for storage

big/ fancy

small crude permanent

portable

house shack

shed

barn tent mansion

motor fuel wheels

fast private

public air land

train

bus

car

jet

hot air balloon

bike

A Country Mouse in the Town House

WORD We infer it means

What helped us?

Froth light bubbles – lots of them

the picture & the rest of the sentence

Spiracle breathing hole

caption under picture – pointing arrow

Camouflage spots that help things hide

Brett’s schemaHis pants

Inferring is thinking in your head to help you understand when the story doesn’t let you in on it.