Our job as teachers is to enhance understanding. Too many times, we view comprehension as a checklist item. It\'s not.

1. Comprehension is not a Commodity!

2. TO UNDERSTAND

3. Inferring Imaging Questioning Monitoring Synthesizing Using Schema Det. Importance

4. In Most Schools… Here is what our Readers do…

5. 1. Take a Test

6. 2. A New Dot

7. 3. A Party

8. 4. We Kiss a Pig

10. Is this what REAL readers do?

12. It’s what real readers do…

14. Comprehension is not a Commodity!

16. ACTIVE Literacy

17. 3 Goals Defining Understanding Comprehending Classroom Lessons: In Comprehension

19. PURPOSEFUL Talk

20. Instead of…

22. Reflection

24. Response to Text

25. Retell

26. Answer “ Our” Questions!

27. Complete Graphic Organizers

28. Extension “ Activity”

31. Draw “ Aloud”

32. Topic (theme): Friendship

37. The “Dinner Party”

39. Going Deep

42. Enactment Strategies

44. React and Respond

45. Inside Outside

46. Angela Maiers Family Friends Children Teachers Readers Angela

47. NCLB

48. R eflect

51. R Q F

52. Now What? So What? What

53. Response Pt. About

54. Power of Three’s 3 Important Points . . . 3 Sentence Summary _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ 3 Questions ? ? ?

55. Be… Impacted

56. Impact Others

57. In Service of… Meaning!