Unit 4, Week 4, Day2
FCAT SKILL Monitor Comprehension: Reread
Mini-Lesson Teaching Point: Readers monitor comprehension by stopping to make sure
they understand what they are reading and rereading when parts of the text become confusing.
Materials: 95J, 102/103
Connection: (activate prior knowledge and focus student attention on the lesson)
Yesterday we were working on making predictions.
Today I am going to teach you to monitor or check your understanding of the story
as you read. This is called self-monitoring. If something does not make sense, you
should go back and reread it. This is called self correcting. We do this as we read
because it helps us to completely understand what we read.
Today we will practice stopping as we read and make sure we understand what has
happened so far. If we don’t, we’ll go back and reread to self correct.
We will read an nonfiction selection called Super Storms. We will self monitor to be
sure everything makes sense. We will reread if something doesn’t make sense.
Read p. 98-103.
Teach: (demonstrate the teaching point as if you were working independently)
Let me show you how I monitor my understanding.
Hmmm…I don’t understand how counting seconds between lightening and thunder
tells me about a storm’s distance. To help me understand this better, I will reread
the passage more slowly. Read p. 103 again. When I reread it helped me understand
that the more seconds there are between lightning and thunder, the farther away the
storm is.
Did you see how I reread that section to check my understanding? Let’s read on!
Read to p. 105. One way to check to see if you understand a selection is to stop
once in a while and try to paraphrase what you have read. When you paraphrase,
you creadte a summary in your own words. If you have trouble paraphrasing a
section, you should go back and reread it to understand it better.
Active Engagement: (coach and assess students during this time)
Now you are going to have a try. Turn to your partner. Take turns paraphrasing
the section about hailstorms to check your understanding? Hailstorms are storms in
which ice chunks called hailstones fall from the sky. The hailstones are tossed by the
wind, and they can hurt houses and crops. The United States gets about 5,000 hailstorms
a year.
Read on to p. 114. Let’s imagine that we don’t understand what type of a storm a
typhoon is. When something doesn’t make sense, I can go back and reread the
selection more slowly to find information I missed the first time. With your partner,
reread this part of the selection and tell them what a typhoon is.
Unit 4, Week 4, Day2
FCAT SKILL Monitor Comprehension: Reread
Mini-Lesson Teaching Point: Readers monitor comprehension by stopping to make sure
they understand what they are reading and rereading when parts of the text become confusing.
Materials: 95J, 102/103
Readers. Let’s all come back together. When you reread this part of the story, did
you find out what a typhoon was? Students should say that a typhoon is another name
for a hurricane.
Read the rest of the article.
Link: (review and clarify key points, globalizing their utility from the now to the future)
Today and everyday when you are reading, it is important to have strategies when
you come to a place where you don’t understand what you read. You can reread the
part that is tricky and self correct a mistake in understanding or you can paraphrase
it to be sure you get it.