Comprehension by Lauren MacBlane

Teaching Reading Comprehension... JSTOR

lmacblane — 2014-04-02 15:32:08 UTC

This is a scholarly article that discusses existing research on teaching comprehension strategies explicitly to disabled students, and discusses challenges facing teachers. Suggestions throughout about assessing student background knowledge before tackling or selecting a text, employing metacognitive strategies, and dissecting text structure were all interesting.

Tell Me About The Story

lmacblane — 2014-04-02 15:35:27 UTC

This article consists of suggestions to help students with autism comprehend text as well as let you know that they comprehend it. The author talks about the difficulties students with autism have using language expressively (even though receptively they can comprehend) and makes suggestions to help students with "mind-blindness" understand why characters do the things they do. In general, it also got me thinking about how narratives could be very useful to get students with autism to empathize with others.

Reciprocal Teaching

lmacblane — 2014-04-02 15:39:47 UTC

This article discusses the use of reciprocal teaching in great depth. While its primary focus is ESL students, it makes a strong case for the efficacy of reciprocal teaching with ESL students with learning disabilities - a very challenging population.

Language Comprehension in Autism

lmacblane — 2014-04-02 15:42:48 UTC

This is an interesting article - reading comprehension specifically is discussed at the fourth subheading and onward. It talks about how difficult it is for students with autism to process the actual meanings of words as well as try to understand why characters do the things they do or what is causing what within a story. It also discusses the challenges of assessing students with autism.

Metacognitive strategies for reading comprehension

lmacblane — 2014-04-02 15:48:41 UTC

This post provides a concise list of strategies teachers can show students to employ to ensure that they're comprehending what they're reading.

Collaborative Strategic Reading

lmacblane — 2014-04-07 23:09:37 UTC

This article contains cool cue cards to use with collaborative strategic reading.

Super Six

lmacblane — 2014-04-08 09:31:38 UTC

Pinterest board featuring many tools to help students make inferences, graphic organizers, a "wonder wall" idea similar to a word wall that can be used to make connections between previous reading and current reading when slogging through chapters, and more.

Reading for Meaning

lmacblane — 2014-04-08 09:34:18 UTC

This article contains a lot of information about evidence-based ways to help students with autism comprehend, including parent and computer assisted reading. One really interesting computer-assisted idea requires the use of a computer-animated face that can illustrate emotions, which children with autism struggle to understand.

Explicit Instruction for Implicit Meaning

lmacblane — 2014-04-08 09:38:40 UTC

This is an entire packet featuring many different activities to increase inferential comprehension, and contains a useful chart detailing exactly which skills each activity works on.

Reciprocal Teaching

lmacblane — 2014-04-08 09:43:33 UTC

This isn't actually a Wiki article, despite the font. It is, however, an explanation of and illustration of reciprocal teaching methods. It describes in detail how a teacher might employ these methods over the course of a lesson.