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planning activities that help with comprehension (Dali)

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planning activities that help with comprehension (Dali)

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I work hard at not only helping them understand the deeper concepts in the novel and the different devices being used by the author -- but also creating rich tasks for them to complete. (Hantzis)

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I work hard at not only helping them understand the deeper concepts in the novel and the different devices being used by the author -- but also creating rich tasks for them to complete. (Hantzis)

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I work hard on the comprehension aspect of the Novel Study. Ensuring that the students understand vocabulary and the deeper aspects related to the novel. (Beernink)

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Getting the students to ACTUALLY read.

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When reading the novel out loud, do all students try and understanding or all they just pretending to be focussed?

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Sasso: Finding vocabulary for each chapter and having students write sentences with new words, comment on themes from the novel using new vocabulary, and teaching them to read in big chunks like they "bing watch" television programs.

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Sasso: Finding vocabulary for each chapter and having students write sentences with new words, comment on themes from the novel using new vocabulary, and teaching them to read in big chunks like they "bing watch" television programs.

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many students lack background knowledge to make connections to texts. (Dali)

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many students lack background knowledge to make connections to texts. (Dali)

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Reading comprehension and the ability to infer basic literary devices

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My students require a lot of prompting as they just read words but don't think of the deeper concepts (Hantzis)

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My students require a lot of prompting as they just read words but don't think of the deeper concepts (Hantzis)

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ESL, Mild-intellectual delay, anxiety disorder

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Developing and understanding figurative language as well as sentence structure.

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I do know what I am looking for and these expectations are either built with the students or explained to them (Hantzis)

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I do know what I am looking for and these expectations are either built with the students or explained to them (Hantzis)

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Students need to develop more confidence in their abilities.

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Yes, yes I do.  And so do the students.

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Sasso: I feed off the responses of the students, and use their questions to guide a PPC paragraph topic. I don't co-construct I collaborate with the students using time in class to run student/teacher conferences.

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What I look for, or hope that my students achieve, is vastly different. I am constantly re-evaluating their needs and goals, and trying to work with them individually.

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When reading the novel aloud or individually, is the comprehension there?

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Most of the time I know what I'm expecting as an end product. Co-constructing success criteria makes

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A lot of the time -- as I read to them. Also when I ask them deeper questions I wonder whether they are thinking deep or just on the "surface"

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A lot of the time -- as I read to them. Also when I ask them deeper questions I wonder whether they are thinking deep or just on the "surface"

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I feel students zone out, but the question for me is not ARE they thinking but WHAT are thinking about.

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Yes, often. When I provide them with explicit instructions and they have completed work that is completely different than what I asked for.

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Making Inferences, identify a range of literray devices – including symbolism, irony, analogy, metaphors, similies how they help communicate a deeper meaning by th author. (Hantzis)

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Making Inferences, identify a range of literray devices – including symbolism, irony, analogy, metaphors, similies how they help communicate a deeper meaning by th author. (Hantzis)

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I try and have tasks and assessments that are relevant to the novel and skill set of my students. Teaching English is new for me, so I need to work on brushing up on extracting the deeper meanings.

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Create an understanding of overall themes of the novel(Dali)

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Create an understanding of overall themes of the novel(Dali)

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Weekly assignments consist of PPCs, Journal entries (from the point of view of the characters). Daily homework checks. These lead the students towards weekly goals that build to a culminating task. Each weekly assignment has a rubric attached to give students a checklist.

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Comprehension of vocabulary, overall themes, written comprehesion

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Many of my students are ELL or ELD, and they have a harder time with comprehension. We spend a little extra time every class summing up key points thus far.

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The tasks that require some more creativity. These should be more fun, but sometimes turns into me pulling teeth.

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I would like them to be able to extract a deeper meaning from the novel, and think critically about it.