1. Comprehension & Fluency: Let’s Go Deeper Lori Elliott SDE tosaelliott@gmail.com Lorislatestlinks.com

3. Thinking Strategies Sensory Images Making Connnections Questioning Drawing Inferences Determining Importance Synthesis Fix Up Strategies

4. Sensory Images: Movies of the Mind PredictionsReactions Expression Can’t Stop Reading

5. Readers unable to create images while reading Lack of Interest in Reading Unable to Describe/ Retell No Emotions To Text

7. Strategies to Help with Sensory Images

8. Mind Maps

9. Making Connections Text to Text Text to Self Text to World

11. Alphaboxes ABCDEF GHIJKL MNOPQR STUVWX YZ LAVA ISLAND MAGMA

13. Before Reading StatementAfter Reading If you hopped like a frog, you could jump from home plate to 1 st base in one leap. If you were as strong as an ant, you could lift a bus. If you jumped like a flea, you could land on Lady Liberty’s torch. If you grew as fast in your 1 st nine months as you did in the nine months before you were born, you would be as big as an elephant.

14. Questioning Questioning helps the reader clarify ideas and deepen understanding. I wonder… Why? What if? What does this mean? Does this make sense?

15. Location of Answers In the Book In the Reader’s Head Author Gives Clues Another Book Another Person

16. Thick and Thin Questions

17. Think Alouds/Sticky Notes

18. Drawing Inferences Drawing Inferences is the process of forming best guesses based on the evidence presented in the words, sentences, and paragraphs.

21. Use cartoons

23. Determining Importance Determining Importance is the process of weeding through all the information and focusing on the main idea.

24. Main Idea Sticky Notes Main IdeaDetailsMy Response

25. Everyone Read To… Everyone Read to Find Out…. Great One for PowerPoint !

26. Synthesis “Synthesis is about organizing the different pieces to create a mosaic, a meaning, a beauty, greater than the sum of each shiny piece.” – Ellin Keene

27. Summary Frame ________ ________ ___________ ________ ________ ___________ ______

28. Comprehension Frame We read ______________. The most important thing about this text is ______________________________. The reader can use this information to help them _________________________. The reader will also learn about ________________ and _____________ in this text.

29. Helpful Resources Stephanie Harvey/Anne Goudvis Linda Hoyt Scholastic

30. Fluency “The ability to read a text quickly, accurately, and with proper expression.” (National Reading Panel)

31. Ways to Improve Fluency Repeated readings of familiar texts Partner Reading Shared Reading Listening to Books on Tape Readers Theatre Reading Series Books