Comprehension

=**Comprehension**=

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K-8 || Comprehension Strategies- Different types of graphic organizers to help support comprehension. [] Posters for reading comprehension strategies. || Build comprehension skills and assess using a variety of graphic organizers and story maps. || || Elementary Grade Level Appropriate K-6 || Comprehension Strategies (includes main strategies: making connections, visualizing, inferencing, main idea, asking questions etc.) || This is a quick and easy graphic organizer to utilize all of the strategies at once within a story. Great modeling activity to show students how each of the reading strategies can apply to one story. Adaptable by having students draw pictures rather than writing sentences, or for use like a comic strip. || Gartrell || [] || 6-8 Reading comprehension for all subjects. It also has icons for other subject areas. || Purpose is helping students access and develop vocaburay and backgroud knowledge in order to understand and remeber ideas in a text they will be reading. || Brainstroming and discussion strategy featuring group inter action that helps students access and build on their background knowledge. || Swartz || [] || K-2 || [] [] [] || Readers' Response Activities || Comprehension quick checks || all || [] ABCteach.com ||  || 1st: If you go to the home page for this link you will finding reading passages along with test questions for grades 1 thorough 8. The link that I provided is for the reading passages given for 8th graders. There are two passages included along with questions to follow. [] 2nd: This website showcases the McLeod Assessments with the use of the cloze procedure. There are examples for many different grades. || 8 All || [] 1st: This link is to a Story Pyramid and can be used for all grade levels. It has a lesson overview and provides an idea for a reading comprehension strategy. [] 2nd: This link is from the same website as the above link but lays out the strategy of a KWL that can be used for all grade levels. [] 3rd: This particular page provides you with many different types of graphic organizers but if you look on the side you can click on a specific subject, theme worksheets, critical thinking strategies, etc. ||  || Here is a great website to get narrative and expository text at grade levels 3-8. @http://www.ncpublicschools.org/accountability/testing/eog/sampleitems/reading || 3-6 || This are a few handouts that helps explain retelling and where students should fall based on their grade and on their development. ||  || Leon || [|Comprehension Assessment] || K-8 || [|Comprehension Strategies] [|Comprehension Strategies for At Risk Learners] || These assessments will provide a clear understanding of whether or not your student is comprehending what they are reading. These assessments are activities that can show the student comprehended from the story. The strategies have tutorials as well as lesson plan ideas for incorporating the strategies into your instruction of comprehension. || Sam Shuster [] K-8 []
 * Student Name || Assessment || Grade Levels || Strategy || Comments ||
 * Dana Saenz ||  || k-1 || [[file:Comprehension Worksheet.pdf]] || Uses nursery rhymes to put the story in the correct order. ||
 * Dana Saenz || [[file:Alternate_Bader_Indy_Reads.pdf]] || 2-5 ||  || A ssessment tool used to measure a student’s entry reading level ||
 * Jan Allardyce || [[file:Assessing What Students Know.docx]] || Can be adapted to most grades || [[file:Comprehension Strategy.docx]] || Give students a chance to show what they have learned. ||
 * Lori Losinski || [|Graphic Organizer] || Adaptable to most grade levels
 * Elizabeth McKenna || 8-Square Model
 * Jessica Johnson || __[]__ || Elementary || This is a great website with lots of ideas and graphic organizers to help students learn to better comprehend what they are reading. || Help students learn how to better comprehend wha they are reading. Site is quick and easy to look over. Graphic organizers are easy to get to and easy to print. ||
 * Kelly
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 * Kristi Miller ||  || 1-3 (but adaptable to any grade level) || http://www.havefunteaching.com/worksheets/graphic-organizers/kwl-kwhl/kwhl-graphic-organizer-landscape.pdf || A very useful KW//**H**//L chart that gives students a chance to show what they already know, what they are interested in learning, what they have learned, and HOW they have learned it. ||
 * Marisa
 * Don Mackewich || http://coe.fgcu.edu/faculty/ray/red/cassessment.htm || Grades 3-6 || This link provides a list of useful assessment tools for comprehension --checklists, journaling, portfolios, etc || These are great assessment ideas. Whether you are trying to get a baseline or whether you are measuring how a student thinks he/she is doing, you might find these assessments useful. ||
 * ||  ||   ||   || Literature circles ||
 * Melinda Wavra || [|comprehension assessment] || K-2 || [|Comprehension-Graphic Organizer] || Nice comprehension graphic organizer for use with upper elementary grades. ||
 * Carey Thomsen || [|Reading Comprehension Assessment] || 1-8 ||  || Excerps and comprehension questions ||
 * Carey Thomsen ||  || 1-12 || [[file:Detail Spinner.docx]] || Game using the 5 W's ||
 * Michelle Wilczak || [] || 3-8 || [] || The assessment starts on page 55. It tests phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary development, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. The strategy site gives strategies for before, during, and after reading plus at word level. These strategies can be used for all grades. Just a few mentioned are activating prior knowledge, predicting, and retelling. ||
 * Kristy Trombley || Comprehension quick checks [] || k-1 || [] || abc teach has many leveled readers and reading comprehension activities/printables to use with your students. It can go up to 5th grade. ||
 * Betsy Mueller || [] || Prek-K || Strategies to help young children develop good comprehension skills in preschool and kindergarten.
 * [|Reading aloud]
 * [|Talking with children]
 * [|Writing with children] || There are MANY ideas included in this site to to help young children at home and at school develop comprehension skills. ||
 * Jessica Johnson || [[file:comprehension1.pdf]][[file:comprehension.pdf]] || Upper Elementary ||  || This is only one of many quick comprehension assessments like this. Students read a short selection and then answer a few multiple choice questions. ||
 * Julie Gregor || Thinking Maps--visual teaching tools || Pre K - 12th || [|Thinking Maps] ||  ||
 * Julie Gregor || [|Reading A-Z] || K-5 || Fiction and Non-fiction retelling rubric ||  ||
 * Melissa Johnson || [[file:fiction_retelling_rubric.pdf]] || All || [] || Fiction retelling rubric and 6 strategies for increasing comprehension ||
 * Joanne Haberkamp || []
 * Joanne Haberkamp || []
 * Traci Gabow || []
 * Stephanie Hayward || 1st Grade Comprehension Assessments || 1st || Drawing Inferences Lesson || The assessment link provides stories of different generes as well as comprehension questions. The strategy is a lesson on drawing inferences geared toward 3-5 grade. ||
 * Jessica Fisk || [] || 2nd || [] || This website provides graphic organizers for different comprehension strategies along with lessons to go with each strategy. ||
 * Jessica Hebel || [|Story Selection] || 1-4 ||  ||   ||
 * Elizabeth McKenna || Below are the rubrics for assessing comprehension by retelling in MLPP.
 * Marietta

Kristi Miller []

Rachel Messer Strategies: K-5: Again, I am including PDF files containing premade workstation/center ideas for teaching comprehension. They are broken down by grade level, and are very easy to use. K-1: [] 2-3: [] [] [] [] 4-5: [] [] [] [] Assessment: []