https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks Zenaida Ellis SPED 781 en-us 2020-09-03 02:53:21 UTC 2025-05-25 13:14:25 UTC hello@padlet.com zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183976297 The teacher was teaching students how to recall reading comprehension strategies. The teacher states the comprehension strategy ask students what they think and provides them with an example to build their understanding of the concept. The teacher sings a comprehension song to help students remember reading comprehension strategies. The students are actively engaged in the lesson.]]> 2022-05-14 16:53:20 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183976297 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183982923 This youtube video was designed to teach parents and educators how to teach reading comprehension strategies to students. This webinar on reading comprehension was designed to help struggling students learn how to read effectively. The video focuses on educators explicitly teaching struggling readers comprehension instruction, high order comprehension, Literal comprehension, and how to activate their prior Knowledge. This video was designed to help parents and educators learn what reading comprehension skills are and how to build students skills. This video is effective because it thoroughly explains what reading comprehension is and how to teach it. I believe that this video can help parents understand why children struggle and how to help them.]]> 2022-05-14 17:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183982923 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183984643 This Padlet was designed to build educators understand of what reading comprehension is. Reading is a complex process that all students must master in order to be successful readers. There are many different components of reading, but this Padlet focuses on Reading Comprehension Strategies.  I designed this Padlet with the intent to focus on Reading Comprehension to expand awareness of what it is and how it should be taught to students. I looked at how reading comprehension is taught to students by teachers in the classroom. Also, I looked at how educators are encouraged to teach Comprehension skills. I looked at research articles to see if it supports these strategies that are used. The two strategies within reading comprehension that I chose to focus on are activating students' prior knowledge and the use of graphic organizers in reading instruction. ]]> 2022-05-14 17:08:16 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2183984643 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184012430 This website does a great job explaining why Graphic organizers are useful in building students reading comprehension skills. Giving students graphic organizers helps them to reflect on the text they are reading and helps them to break down information in a sequential manner. Graphic Organizers is a tool that is used to help students understand the purpose of texts by focusing on the. Through the process of reflect on the reading helps students to make connections and enhance comprehension skills. The article talks about how Graphic Organizers improve students' learning by helping them to visualize what 
is occurring in a text.]]> 2022-05-14 18:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184012430 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184030963 This article reflected on how Prior knowledge improves reading comprehension. Prior Knowledge helps students to build connections from what they already know to new concepts that they are learning about. The article also elaborates different ways that prior knowledge can be activated within learning. The different ways that prior knowledge can be activated is pre-teaching vocabulary to students, providing background knowledge and creating opportunities for students to build prior knowledge skills. ]]> 2022-05-14 18:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184030963 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184065918 This PowerPoint introduces the reader to what Reading comprehension looks like. It included all the necessary components of Reading comprehension and how it works. The direction of each component is clear to the reader. The PowerPoint gives numerous examples of how to test students Reading Comprehension skills.]]> 2022-05-14 19:54:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184065918 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184066047 This YouTube video is a workshop video for Educators on how to teach Reading comprehension skills to English Language learners. This video shows teachers how to effectively teach Reading comprehensions skills to students. Teacher poses questions and then give students the opportunity to work with their partners on reading. For Students who are English Language Learners the video encourages having students work with a peer on building communication skills and providing them with shadow reading.]]> 2022-05-14 19:55:12 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184066047 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184067313 This YouTube video explains what Activating Prior knowledge consist of. This article encourages the readers to use their 5 senses.  The video encourages the readers to make connections to other text, their self, and the world. This video also encourages readers to think about text before reading. Also, this video gives Prior knowledge questions readers might ask themselves during the process of thinking about a text. Overall, this video does a good job explaining how to activate Prior knowledge while reading a text.

]]> 2022-05-14 19:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184067313 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184068814 This article talks about students practicing the Reading Comprehension skill of Activating Prior Knowledge at home. When parents work with children on their reading it encourages students to read and think deeply. Through parents asking students questions can encourage them to activate their prior knowledge skills. If students work on their reading comprehension at home and in school it will enhance their understanding of text. By students practicing this strategy will help them become an effective reader.]]> 2022-05-14 20:01:25 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184068814 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184070022 Good readers use personal schema. This article teaches students how to activate their schema through personal experiences. Educators can show students how to make connections using their personal schema to what they have read. Students can be given personal stems to activate their thinking. Thinking stems that sparks students thinking are the following: that reminds me of, I'm remembering, I can relate to and I have a connection to.]]> 2022-05-14 20:03:57 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184070022 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184072983 This YouTube video focuses on teaching students during the three phases reading. The three phases of reading is before, during, and after. Students will be able to poses questions about the book before they read. The during reading phase questions requires students to pose questions as they are reading. The After questions phase require students to write down questions after the text is read. All responses are recorded by post it notes on a chart paper and the responses is discussed in a whole group instruction.]]> 2022-05-14 20:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184072983 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184555109 This YouTube video teach students to use a graphic organizer to help students organize their thoughts. The Graphic Organizer in this video focuses on the before reading, during reading, and after reading phases. Before reading helps students to think about text prior. The during reading phase helps students to decode words and make connection. After reading phase helps students to visualize what they read.]]> 2022-05-15 15:43:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184555109 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184565962 This research article discusses using Graphic Organizers across different subject areas. The article highlights incorporating Graphic Organizers in instruction can help enhance students Reading Comprehension skills. Both Special and General Educators support using Graphic Organizers in instruction. Graphic Organizers enhances students understanding of new concepts and unfamiliar material. The article highlights the purposes of using different Graphic Organizers in instruction which are story map, concept maps, knowledge maps, semantic maps, tree diagrams, and Venn diagrams. All these different types of Graphic Organizers are helpful in building students understanding of texts.]]> 2022-05-15 16:00:15 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184565962 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184568123 This study highlights that Graphic Organizers helps students to reflect on what they are reading. Students through using Graphic Organizers will be able to organize their thoughts in a concise manner. The students will be able to construct meaning from unfamiliar words. Students will be able to have a visual representation of their learning through using a Graphic Organizer. Graphic organizers according to research is one of the most effective strategies to enhance reading comprehension skills.]]> 2022-05-15 16:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184568123 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184572892 The Reading Rocket Article does a good job explaining what Reading Comprehension consists of.  Reading comprehension is a vital part of reading. If students do not understand what they are reading they will have difficulty conceptualizing texts.  This article highly emphasizes one component of reading comprehension that is necessary to build students' understanding of text is Vocabulary. The main component of Comprehension is for students to understand written words, be able to decode, activate background knowledge by making connections and thinking beyond the text. This article explains different frustrations children may have when it comes to reading comprehension. Also, this article includes how children can help themselves, how teachers can help students, and how parents can help their children. According to this text, Children need numerous opportunities to build their Reading Comprehension skills.]]> 2022-05-15 16:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184572892 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184573805 This article mentioned that students need to learn the following Reading Comprehension strategies to be successful. The following reading comprehension strategies need to be explicitly taught to students activating prior knowledge, generating and asking questions, making inferences, predicting, summarizing, visualizing and comprehension monitoring. Each comprehension strategy must be taught to students so they can build their comprehension skills.]]> 2022-05-15 16:11:59 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184573805 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184574831 This article discusses comprehension strategies that help students become proficient readers. The seven strategies that are discussed in this article are the following monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers, answering questions, generating questions, recognizing story structure and summarizing. A good way to teach students comprehension strategies is through cooperative learning. According to research, these seven strategies have been proven to positively affect student's text comprehension.]]> 2022-05-15 16:13:24 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184574831 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184586418 This lesson plan is designed to help educators understand how to enhance students' prior knowledge. This lesson plan provided a clear format on how to create a lesson plan that focuses on prior knowledge and what materials to use. The lesson plan will focus on writing new information or drawing it, stopping and thinking about the text, and making connections to text. This lesson plan focuses on enhance Reading comprehension skills by activating prior knowledge.]]> 2022-05-15 16:30:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184586418 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184586950 The Reading Comprehension module was created to help teachers support children in learning. This module helps teachers to support children in thinking and making connections as they read. This website incorporates what research has mentioned is effective Reading comprehension strategies. Research postulates providing children with explicit instruction and not teaching strategies in isolation would help them to understand texts.]]> 2022-05-15 16:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184586950 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184606872 The Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) is used when students finish reading a selected text. QAR questions are designed to build student conceptual understanding of text. These questions are developed and given to students to invoke higher level of thinking.]]> 2022-05-15 17:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184606872 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184609597 This article discusses using props to build students understanding of text. Props can be toys, stuffed animals or anything that the child plays with. Incorporating items that are familiar to the child is a fun way to engage them into text. When props are used, it can help build students language skills because they will be more open to learning. The most important part of using props is that parents can create a positive learning opportunity with their child.]]> 2022-05-15 17:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184609597 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184623161 The Crowd Strategy is used to enhance students Reading comprehension skills on text they have read. This strategy is designed for parents to help them understand how questions spark students' understanding of texts. The strategy proposes when children are reading unfamiliar text that C, R and Wh questions be used. C questions focus on complete questions by having children fill in the blanks. R questions focus on having the child recall important events from the text. WH questions focus on teaching the child new vocabulary words to enhance their understanding of the text. Also, The strategy mentions that when children have background knowledge on a text that parents should ask them O and D questions. O questions focus on open ended questions that are relevant to what the child reads from the text. D questions focus on distancing questions which children make text to self connections.]]> 2022-05-15 17:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184623161 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184718946 This article discusses how to teach vocabulary words to English Language Learners. Also, the article highlights which strategy are most helpful in teaching ELL new concepts. The article highlights teaching student's vocabulary before the activity is known, teaching cognates, scaffolding instruction, using audio books, computers/television, encourage oral language and modeling correct language for student's.]]> 2022-05-15 19:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184718946 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184720299 The Frayer Model is a tool that is used to teach students new vocabulary words. The word students need to know is placed in the middle of the model. Students then constructs meaning of the word in four ways. The student is expect to give a definition of the word, draws what the word means, uses the word in a sentence, and make connections to different subject areas. The Frayer model is a great way to enhance students understanding of new concepts.]]> 2022-05-15 19:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184720299 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184809294 Discusses giving students a visual image to invoke Prior Knowledge. Some students learn better through seeing a visual image.]]> 2022-05-15 22:31:26 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184809294 zellis20f https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184810164 This slide discusses how to teach students Vocabulary words. I believe that this slide is helpful because it talks about different ways to introduce Vocabulary.]]> 2022-05-15 22:33:04 UTC https://padlet.com/zellis20f/Bookmarks/wish/2184810164