The Sharon Ruth Gill article called the Comprehension Matrix was interesting and incredibly enlightening. The thing that I found most interesting was when the article discussed the comprehension process and how I feel as if that applies to me in a large way. The article states that comprehension also occurs after the reading process when we are thinking over what we just read. This seems only too true because I always understand what I read after I think and reflect on it.
The article also gives other ways of evaluating what a student has just read, other than only answering questions. When I went was in second grade, I remember my teacher instructing us to write a poem based on what we just read. My fourth grade teacher would instruct us to do the timeline approach. Both of these activities would greatly benefit my classmate and me and our comprehension abilities.
I also liked the part in this article where it talked about evaluating students comprehension. I really enjoyed the strategies she posed for adequately measuring comprehension via timelines or poems.
ReplyDeleteI like your comment about the poem you did in second grade! I see a lot of that in the classroom- I help out in a fourth grade class and the teacher is always having them do something creative to help them remember the stories they are working on! One example is she had them write a postcard to a family member as one of the characters in the story telling them what they did, etc... not only did the kids get to make their postcard but they had to recall what they had read to accurately retell the story :) Thanks for sharing!
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