Post Reading Strategies Prof. Yvette Concepcion- Alcasar Professor Teaching in the Early Grades Department, UP, Diliman , Quezon City Lloyda B. Labaclado San Miguel District
Differentiate engagement and enrichment activities Understand and give examples of questions that develop the 5 levels of comprehension Formulate appropriate discussion questions Select appropriate engagement and enrichment activities OBJECTIVES
What do you usually do after reading to your class? Why do you have to do those things? Share your ideas to the big group Activity / analysis
Post reading discussion: Art of questioning Why is discussion important? 5 levels of reading comprehension Outline
2. Engagement Activities Why do we give EA? How we choose proper engagement activities? Example of EA How can children work as a group? How can we achieve maximum learning for the children? Outline
3. Enrichment activities Reading-writing connection Creative dramatics Arts and crafts Inquiry activities Outline
4. Writing as composition Writing prompts Conventions of writing Outline
Focus questions: Why is it important to discuss the story after reading? What are the five levels of comprehension questions? How are they different from each other ? Why is it not advisable to ask “ Did you like the story?” to students right after reading to them? How do you determine the sequence , type and number of questions to be asked?
Let’s watch this video
1. Why is it important to discuss the story after reading? Discussion
2. What are the five levels of comprehension questions? How are they different from each other? Discussion
3. Why is it not advisable to ask “ Did you like the story?” to students right after reading to them? Discussion
4. How do you determine the sequence , type and number of of questions to be asked? Discussion
Focus questions: (Part 2) 1.What makes engagement and enrichment activities different? 2. What were the types of engagement activities ( organized according to the elements of the story they focus on) that caught your attention during the presentation?
Focus questions: 3. When do you make the children answer engagement activities? Before or after discussing the story?
Focus questions: 4 . Why should we not correct student’s spelling errors as they do engagement activities?
Focus questions: 5. Are engagement activities only for children who can already read and write?
Focus questions: 6. What steps did the speaker suggest to ensure that students are properly supported as they learn to answer engagement activities?
Let’s watch the part 2 of this video
Focus questions: 1.What makes engagement and enrichment activities different? 2. What were the types of engagement activities ( organized according to the elements of the story they focus on) that caught your attention during the presentation?
Focus questions: 3. When do you make the children answer engagement activities? Before or after discussing the story?
Focus questions: 4 . Why should we not correct student’s spelling errors as they do engagement activities?
Focus questions: 5. Are engagement activities only for children who can already read and write?
Focus questions: 6. What steps did the speaker suggest to ensure that students are properly supported as they learn to answer engagement activities?
Using a specific book / story ; Formulate appropriate discussion questions that are properly sequenced . Make engagement activities that could help the learners answer your discussion questions. Workshop
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch their imaginations--something that will help them make sense of their own lives and encourage them to reach out toward people whose lives are quite different from their own. - Katherine Patterson