1. Building Comprehension for Students with Reading Difficulties Alta Community School District Reading R. Bissen, L. Aube, L. Heschke, M. Elston, J. Strock

2. Research Behind Reading Comprehension LEARNING HOW TO COMPREHEND SHOULD INCLUDE---- Explicit instruction about how a person reads; Teachers cannot simply teach from a manual; Instructional settings rich in context; Strategies need to be taught several times; Comprehension skills are not the only explicit strategy that needs to be taught.

3. How Does the Learning Look? Metacognition—how do students think about reading; Activating Prior Knowledge—everyone has some knowledge, use it to learn from; Making Connections—relate and apply the literature to their lives; Summarizing—understanding and remembering, using graphic organizers; Questioning—QAR, knowing that there is a relationship between the questions and the answers; Oral Reading—fluency is important and it is connected to how well a student comprehends

5. What were the results?

7. More Results…. Group B 7 th Grade—80% proficient ITBS Group B 7 th Grade—75% proficient BRI Group C 8 th Grade—74% proficient ITBS Group C 8 th Grade—83% proficient BRI Group D 8 th Grade—100% proficient ITBS Group D 8 th Grade—100% proficient BRI SCR/Reading +--67% proficient ITBS SCR/Reading +--60% proficient BRI

8. Let’s discuss what we saw…

9. What happens next?