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A
simple strategy to assist students in constructing meaning from text.
This strategy allows poor readers to make meaning before the end of the
reading task.
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Using
conversation students gain insight into another student’s ideas at various
points in a text. Using text,
students predict, summarize, clarify, and question.
The process forces students to go back and reread to gain meaning.
1.
Choose a
partner
2.
Obtain
reading material
3.
Decide how
you will read the material
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Silently or
aloud with a partner
4.
Divide the
reading task for the day into thirds; the third division must be at the end
5.
Locate the
first place to stop and with your partner each person “says something” about
the text using one of the below strategies:
Each partner shares one
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Prediction
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Summarization
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Clarification
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Question
6.
Continue to
stop and “say something” at the second and third point.
Students can then discuss, as a group, the material read
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Are
students working together?
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If
necessary, do students reread to gain meaning?
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Are
students correctly stopping at divisions, summarizing, clarifying, and
questioning?
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During
the discussion, is comprehension evident?
Please note students can use this
strategy silently as a personal comprehension model.