Comprehension blog

Tina, Heather, andI talked about the articles over this past weekend. We all agreed that schools must put more emphasis on teaching comprehension strategies. We all liked how Pardo talked about text to self, text to text, and text to world. Heather made the point that we are making more of an effort with our balanced literacy program now than we did in years past. I think it was Tina that said she liked the Neufeld article the best. We talked about how getting a student to write about what they have read is a good way to check for comprehension....but we need to get them to writing early on for this to be beneficial. We also discussed how important modeling by the teacher is for students...especially struggling students.