3321 m&w ch.3

ch. 3. Comprehension means understanding what we read and it's the role of the teacher to enable and support comprehension. We need to have reading material that interests the kids and that they can relate to. Scaffolding is a good idea...that we use questions, models, feedback, and instruction and gradually withdraw and let the children become more independant. There are different types of reading. Aesthetic reading is reading for fun. Efferent reading is reading because they have to, like reading a textbook. It requires more work and one may have to slow down and even reread to get the message. We can use schema when we read a book and apply our prior knowledge so we can relate to a book better.