Strategies that Work Chapters 3, 4 & 7 Weekly Reading Response
by Nicole Keaney

1. Green: Chapter 3 Purple: Chapter 4 Blue: Chapter 7 Red: Reflection Harvey, S., & Goudvis, A. (2007) Strategies that work: Teaching comprehension for understanding and engagement. Stenhouse: Portland, ME.
2. "Comprehension means we show them [students] how to construct meaning when they read" (pg. 31)
2.1. Components of Instruction for Comprehension:
2.1.1. Teacher Modeling
2.1.2. Guided Practice
2.1.3. Collaborative Practice
2.1.4. Independent Practice
2.1.5. Application in Real Situations
2.2. We are trying to teach students how to use these strategies with any text
3. Reading Assessment has become a major part of the classroom with the increase of standardized testing
3.1. This should tell us:
3.1.1. What the students learned
3.1.2. If instruction was effective
3.1.3. Where to go with future instriction
4. "Language has the power to give rise to exciting, vibrant classrooms with eager learners or, conversely, to spawn deadly dull classrooms full of bored kids." (pg. 45)
4.1. Think-Alouds
4.2. Read -Alouds
4.3. Interactive Read-Alouds
4.4. Lifting Text
4.5. Guided Discussion
4.6. Anchor Lessons or Charts
4.7. Rereading
4.8. Modeling with Adult Literature
5. Aesthetic Reading ("what [the reader] is living through during his relationship with that particular book" and Efferent Reading ("Reading to Learn") (p.58 - 59)
6. "When we begin strategy instruction with children, stories close to their own lives and experiences are helpful for introducing new ways of thinking about reading" (p.92)
6.1. Text-to-Self
6.1.1. Make connections with the characters
6.1.2. Help you understand what the story is doing on a deeper level