Ashley Sealand’s Reviews > Reading Essentials: The Specifics You Need to Teach Reading Well > Status Update

Effective strategy instruction is about developing readers who actively and independently monitor and regulate their own comprehension. Key processes to teach include: Predicting Questioning Creating images Seeking clarification Constructing summaries

We are turning out lots of superficial readers. They look and sound competent. They read smoothly and can retell what they've read with some detail, but they are unable to go further - to discuss why characters behave as they do, to give a concise summary, to discuss the theme or big ideas, to talk about the author's purpose.

Students don't automatically apply what we demonstrate just because we teach it. We need to coax them to move on to application, both by directly telling them to do so and by making our own application process visible. Then, we need to have them time to practice, and we need to check to see if the application is occurring - through sharing, conferring with students, and evaluating occasional written responses.

Monica Carrera-Wilburn: "My goal is to transform my room from a classroom with a library in it to a library with a classroom in it!" SO.MUCH.THIS.