The Teacher's Tool Kit For Literacy

How to Teach Comprehension With Diane Snowball

Episode Summary

Literacy leaders Sharon Callen and Diane Snowball talk about the best ways to teach comprehension.

Episode Notes

Many motivated school teachers and leaders are looking for better ways to teach comprehension. 

A big question that teachers often ask themselves is whether students are really getting deep understanding, or if it is just superficial knowledge?

To talk about this, Sharon Callen is again joined by Diane Snowball, a highly experienced educator who led significant change in education throughout whole school districts in the US as well as Australia.

The literacy leaders talk about recommended teaching methods as well as those to avoid, how to know if you're getting better at teaching comprehension and whether students are understanding it, key differences between younger and older readers, and much more! 

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FEATURED RESOURCES

• What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction - Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension,  by David Pearson and Nell Duke
• Comprehension Shouldn’t Be Silent: From Strategy Instruction to Student Independence, by: Michelle J. Kelley, Nicki Clausen-Grace
• Reading the Whole Page by Michelle Kelley  (Author), Nicki Clausen-Grace (Author) : Teaching and Assessing Text Features to Meet K-5 Common Core Standards
• The Land of Never Endings by Kate Saunders
• A Particular Cow by Mem Fox
• Who Sank the Boat by Pamela Allen
• This and That by Mem Fox

TEACHIFIC

• Ten Types of Inferring F-6 by Diane Snowball

LIST OF COMPREHENSION STRATEGIES

• Setting a purpose
• Predicting using prior knowledge
• Thinking aloud
• Inferring
• Using text structures and features
• Questioning (by the reader)
• Monitoring your own understanding
• Clarifying meaning
• Fix up strategies
• Visualising
• Forming visual representations
• Summarising
• Retelling

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The Teacher’s Tool Kit For Literacy is the free podcast for motivated teachers and school leaders who want the latest tips, tricks and tools to inspire their students and school community in literacy learning. 

Hear from literacy expert and founder of Cue Learning, Sharon Callen, and special guests.

At Cue Learning, our literacy specialists draw on over 30 years of teaching and international consulting experience to deliver world-class learning solutions. We equip, empower and support teachers to become their authentic selves. 

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Episode Transcription

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