CHAPTER 13 READING TO

LEARN

Comprehension guides
 Table of Contents
Student learning
Reading comprehension
Three level guide
Selective reading guide
Interactive guide
How to teach
 Student learning
Learning implies more than just rote mastery of
facts, formulas, and “who did what and when”; it
also means thinking about and using that
information. Rather than seeing a particular text
as having a single meaning that all successful
readers must apprehend, it is more accurate to
think of a text as representing a range of potential
meanings.
How can students learn when they seem to lack
the necessary background and skills? There is no
easy solution but teachers can use several
strategies such as study/reading guides to help.
Reading comprehension
Reading is one of the most complex tasks
we undertake. In order to read, we must
translate visual symbols into words, and
words into meaning.
One of the neurodevelopment
components of reading comprehension is
Attention components: mental energy,
processing controls and production
controls.
 Three- Level Guide
This guide is to design a support system for
students by constructing a three- level
understanding.
Literal- consisting of specific facts and
concepts that clearly stated.
Interpretive- requires “reading between the
lines” or drawing inferences about ideas that
the author implies.
Applied- represents comprehension that
extends beyond the text to form new ideas or
Selective Reading Guide
Points students to important
information in the text.
Similar to the end-of-chapter review
questions you see at the end of your
text book chapters.
Help students find out the most
relevant and irrelevant part of the
text.
Interactive Reading Guides
is designed to conduct the in- class reading of
students as they interact in accommodating
groups or pairs
Preparation :the text selection, deciding on the
main points that students must understand, and
identifying potentials sports of where the
student is struggling.
help the student identify key ideas, make
clarifications of connections in the texts, and read
critically.
How to teach these guides
Three- level guide- A good deal of
overlap among levels. Readers will
move back and forth among these
kind of comprehension as they work
their way through a text. A three level
guide can be exposed in a three day
process which allows the students to
thoroughly comprehend the three
levels of the guide.
Selective reading guide- Make their
own decisions regarding which facts,
idea, and terminology are most
important and devise a guide that
directs students to specific sections of
the text. A teacher should carefully
point out that some of the
information's asked for in the guide
was clearly stated in the text, but some
ideas required prior knowledge.
Interpretative reading guide- Teacher
should think about which sections
should be read orally or silent, which
might be skimmed, or as with
selective guide which passage may be
skipped entirely. A class period can
devote the students to work together
on the guide and the next class period
to talk about it and have feedback
from the teacher.