Subject: Reading Comprehension
Stimulus: Analyze a student's comprehension of text
Prompts or Questions:
- identify one strength
- identify one weakness
- cite specific examples that are tightly connected and insightful
- identify a teaching strategy
- explain appropriate rationale with evidence from research or theory
Stimulus Examples (from Home Stretch):
- inferring
- main idea/details
- 7 comprehension strategies
- Beginning, middle, end
- Problem/solution
- Synthesis
- Use text features/structures
Study Resources:
- Strategies that Work
- Reading with Meaning
- Best Practices in Teaching Literacy (Gamell)
- Literacymatters.com
- Voices from the Middle
- Developmental Continuum (Campbell-Hill)
- Yardsticks
- Continuum of Literacy Learning (Founas & Pinnell)
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