Lively, engaging Animoto. May I share it with my staff and students as long as I give you credit? Will also check out book. Sorry for brevity and thanks!

Ouita Bingham

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 11:55 AM, <info@storytrail.com> wrote:

Dear Patricia and All,

Thank you for your thoughtful question and the discussion of the best database resources for secondary students. I hope elementary people are listening in, too.

While we provide database resources for students that (most of them) can comprehend, we, more importantly, want readers to possess the strategies they need to comprehend any texts they encounter anywhere - at all levels of complexity.

In my coteaching reading comprehension strategy books, I share information about and sample lesson plans based on the "using fix-up options" reading comprehension strategy. These are 16 options (codified by Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins) that strategic readers use to regain comprehension if they have lost it.

You will find fix-up options graphic organizers on the ALA Editions Web site where you can access the free downloadable graphic organizers for my elementary book (8J at http://tinyurl.com/impact-g-o) and secondary book (8.1/8.2/8.3 at http://tinyurl.com/impact12-g-o).

For support, there is an Animoto video overview of the 16 options linked to the secondary book's resources: http://animoto.com/play/0z9oyTxo5TJN5nJw12Ct1Q

When I teach these to secondary students, even those who are "readers," they are amazed at the deeper level of comprehension they can achieve. Poetry or literary non-fiction (speeches and essays in particular) provide examples for mini-lessons that focus on this strategy.

Teaching students how to gain or recover comprehension can help them tackle any text and make meaning from it. That is our goal, right?

Best,

Judi

Judi Moreillon, M.L.S., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Studies
Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX

http://cultureofcollaboration.edublogs.org/

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Coteaching Reading Comprehension Strategies in Secondary School Libraries: Maximizing Your Impact (2012)

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Collaborative Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension: Maximizing Your Impact, Sing Down the Rain, and Read to Me/Vamos a leer

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Subject: [aaslforum] reading comprehension strategies
From: "Sarles Patricia (18K500)" <PSarles@schools.nyc.gov>
Date: Fri, April 12, 2013 5:44 am
To: "aaslforum@ala.org" <aaslforum@ala.org>

I will be teaching an AP Lit class next week how to search Literature Resource Center, Academic Search Premier, and Gale Virtual Reference Library over two days.

Thanks to the ideas I got from everyone from one of my posts last month, I will doing things a little bit differently this time.

In preparation, I am looking at some of the material available in those databases and much of it is quite difficult. (Not that I didn't know it would be. The students have to write a 5 page lit crit paper on The Great Gatsby).

I'd like to teach a brief reading comprehension strategy along with my showing them how to use the databases - tricks that students can use while reading the articles in the databases to help them comprehend what they are reading. (Last time I taught databases, the students were turned off and told me they'd just continue to use Google and Wikipedia).

Does anybody have anything they can share? A worksheet? A strategy or two?

Thanks!

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