I’m working on comprehension!
My strategy is Use the Picture…Do the Words and Pictures Match?
Secret to Success
Knowing that using the pictures within text is a viable and appropriate strategy for decoding words and gaining meaning, not “cheating.”
What you can say or model
Children need to know that often times photos or illustrations are a vital part of the reading experience and can help us figure out a word or words or gain meaning from the text. Model reading the pictures. Beginning reading books often have just a few words on a page, and the illustrations can give clear support for figuring out the words. Reading pictures, which includes graphs, maps, charts, and their captions, is a very powerful nonfiction reading strategy. Using pictures is also a strategy for more advanced students that will support those reading different curricular texts. Each time you read a book, spend time modeling how you look at pictures, maps, and graphs. Talk about your thinking so children can hear y our processing. Also model stopping while you read to look at the pictures to help gain information.
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)
My strategy is Use the Picture…Do the Words and Pictures Match?
Secret to Success
Knowing that using the pictures within text is a viable and appropriate strategy for decoding words and gaining meaning, not “cheating.”
What you can say or model
Children need to know that often times photos or illustrations are a vital part of the reading experience and can help us figure out a word or words or gain meaning from the text. Model reading the pictures. Beginning reading books often have just a few words on a page, and the illustrations can give clear support for figuring out the words. Reading pictures, which includes graphs, maps, charts, and their captions, is a very powerful nonfiction reading strategy. Using pictures is also a strategy for more advanced students that will support those reading different curricular texts. Each time you read a book, spend time modeling how you look at pictures, maps, and graphs. Talk about your thinking so children can hear y our processing. Also model stopping while you read to look at the pictures to help gain information.
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)