CSPUP Sociology Lamars Reading Comprehension Strategies Essay

Instructions

Scenario:

Lamar  is a struggling reader in your first-grade classroom. You are concerned  about his difficulty with reading comprehension and want to provide  more practice. You have noted that explicitly teaching reading  comprehension strategies through question-based activities has really  helped Lamar. You are planning a reading lesson of a grade-appropriate  reading selection with all of your students’ needs in mind. As you  consider the needs of Lamar, you wonder which reading comprehension  strategy you will teach your students and have them practice in their  pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading activities.

Based on information from Ch. 9 (section 9-4) of your textbook, you will need to:

·Construct a response for both Part 1 and Part 2. 

Description of Response:

Part 1 – Choose three activities to help your students with comprehension: 

·One pre-reading activity

·One during-reading activity

·One post-reading activity to reinforce your students’ comprehension of the reading selection. 

For each of the three activities you must:

a. Explain how the activity applies the new reading comprehension strategy and addresses the issues in the scenario.

b.  Give evidence from the chapter (with citations from your textbook)  supporting how each activity helps students apply the new reading  comprehension strategy and its appropriateness for Lamar and other  struggling readers in your class.

Part 2

Describe

and justify how combining the three activities you chose would improve 

student engagement and reading comprehension in the scenari