EDOK-READER FACTORS APA reference Scharlach, T. D. (2008). START comprehending: Students and teachers actively reading text.

The Reading Teacher, 62(1), 2031. Main Idea Many students can read but they have difficulties comprehending what they read. Teachers teach their students to become a metacognitive reader by teaching many different strategies. Supporting Details Comprehension is developed through a variety of purposeful, motivated reading activities. Comprehension improves through extensive reading. Only small amount of comprehension instruction occurs in the classroom on a daily basis START- Students and Teachers Actively Reading Text START improves comprehension through modeling and scaffolding of eight crucial comprehension strategies. Higher achieving students are sometimes forgotten about since the focus is on helping the low achieving students. Reading Comprehension Strategies: teacher modeling and explaining when and how to use the strategies, guided practice, and extended independent reading. Metacognition is thinking about thinking.

Reflection

After reading the article, I have gained some useful information that will help me in my future classroom. I will learn how to effectively teach comprehension strategies, so that my future students will have the chance to succeed with them. I will model and explain the different strategies so that the students know when and how to use them. It is hard to use a reading strategy if you dont know how or when to use it. Also I will scaffold reading so that the students have an opportunity to learn outside their zone of proximal development. This will help the students build on the prior knowledge. Also I will have many read-aloud in my classroom. During these times I will model and scaffold the use of the eight comprehension strategies. The comprehension strategies include: predicting/inferring, visualizing, making connections, questioning, determining main idea, summarizing, checking predictions, and making judgments. I really like the idea of using the START reading strategies diagram that is included in the article. It is a graphic organizer that makes the students think about why they are reading and what they are reading.