Comprehension

Being in a first grade classroom, comprehension is one of the most important concepts that students must learn in reading. I have seen many strategies in my main placement. Here are a few examples.

Two weeks ago was parent teacher conference and every meeting that my master teacher and I had she emphasized the importance of reading comprehension. She gave all the parents two sets of bookmarkers that are questions to ask students after they done reading a book to help with comprehension.

Every week, the first grade classrooms have a switch a roo, where the “high readers” go to the other first grade class, where my main teacher gets those that need a bit more help as she is more experience in reading switch. Each day the class is broken up by colors, red, green, yellow, and blue groups. This groups were put together in the beginning of the year according to their results that both first grade teachers had assessed in September. My main teacher’s strategy helps students with comprehension and phonic awareness. One group goes to word building, another listens to a book on tape, another goes to the table to work on a phonic worksheet, and the other groups reads with her, and twice a week the story that they are reading is the book that they are listening to on tape, to help with fluency. At the end of the week students are able to retell the story and answer questions about the story that they have read and listened too.