# Welcome! ### Thank you for joining us! The webinar will begin shortly. ## A Blueprint for Reading Comprehension Instruction #### Presented by Nancy Hennessy, M.Ed. --- Webinar Tips 1. Close any applications that use bandwidth or resources on your device 2. To submit a question, click "Questions" in the webinar panel and type in your question 3. To minimize the webinar panel, click the orange arrow in the upper left of the panel --- # The Reading Comprehension Blueprint ## Get the essential knowledge and practical tools needed to help every student become a proficient reader—and build a strong foundation for school success! ## [Reading Comprehension Blueprint](https://bpub.fyi/ReadCompBlueprint) --- # Giveaway ### We’re giving away 3 FREE copies of The Reading Comprehension Blueprint! #### Three attendees will be selected at random and emailed after the webinar. 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Instead, it is the orchestrated product of a set of linguistic and cognitive processes operating on text and interacting with background knowledge, features of the text, and the purpose and goals of the reading situation. _Castles, A., Rastle, K., & Nation, K., 2018_ --- # How does language comprehension contribute? ## …when children become competent at decoding, it is their competence in language comprehension that will determine their overall reading ability. Therefore, in more advanced reading, good language comprehension will be more crucial than word recognition. _Scarborough, H.S. 2001; Oakhill, Cain, and Elbro, 2015_ --- ## Levels of language processing… _Based on: Oakhill & Cain, 2007_ Words & Phrases • Academic vocabulary (breadth, depth, precision) Sentences • Density • Length • Cohesive ties & connectives • Structure Knowledge • Inference • Local --- # What is the Blueprint? - An evidence-based master plan that addresses both process and product demands. - Organizes and scaffolds the teacher’s preparation of a text for varied purposes. - Calls for the use of evidence-based strategies and activities. - Allows for flexibility based on text, the student, and context. - Acknowledges the metacognitive nature of teaching. --- # Check your understanding… ## Which of the following is not correct? The blueprint is ____________________. - a) a lesson plan - b) based in evidence - c) metacognitive in nature - d) scaffolds and organizes instruction --- # Critical Understandings? ## What do you want students to know and understand after reading the text? ### The big ideas, the important understandings, that we want students to ‘get inside of’ and retain after they’ve forgotten many of the details go beyond discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles, or processes. *Reading lessons need to have double outcomes—an improvement in reading ability and an increased knowledge about whatever was read.* _Shanahan, 2017_ --- # Choosing Texts? ## What texts will support these understandings? ### Educators who are intentional choose rich texts to develop the critical understandings as well as the language and cognitive skills necessary for comprehension proficiency. --- # Purpose? - What are the content instructional goals and objectives? - What are the literacy instructional goals and objectives? **Acquiring knowledge of critical topics, including enduring understandings, constitutes content goals.** **The development of content and literacy knowledge is accomplished over time and through multiple interactions with varied text.** --- # How does the blueprint address the development of language structures (semantics & syntax)? **LANGUAGE STRUCTURES (phrases, clauses, sentence comprehension)** Are there phrases, clauses, and sentence structures that may be difficult for your students? ### How and when will you directly teach sentence comprehension? ### How and when will you teach students to work with challenging sentences? How will you facilitate the integration of ideas within and between sentences (e.g., the use of cohesive ties and connectives)? ### How and when will you teach students to work with these? --- ## What might be difficult for your students? When Benjamin grew to be a man, he discovered to make a decent living, he had little choice but to tend the tobacco farm his parents left him, a grassy hundred acres he called Stout. _Pinkney: Dear Benjamin Banneker_ --- ## What does an informed framework for sentence comprehension instruction include? | Intentional on Purpose (direct) | Incidental on Purpose (indirect) | | --- | --- | | Grammar Based Deconstruction | Reading Experiences | | Activities | -Shared Reading -Group & Independent reading -The Fluency Connection | | Sentence Based Activities | Oral Language Experiences | | Cohesive Device Activities-Cohesive ties-Connectives | The Writing Connection ©2014 Nancy Hennessy | --- # The Blueprint: # Intentionally designed to support the educator as he/she uses their knowledge to identify learning goals, set purpose, organize instruction, select instructional activities, and monitor students' progress. ### Consider Current Practices --- # Questions? --- # Thank you!