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Comprehension Strategies

The following strategies are taken from Retelling Strategies to Improve Comprehension by Darla Shaw (Scholastic 2005)

Mock Trial: students put a character on trial.   This includes jurors, witnesses and lawyers.  The trial may be scripted or ad-libbed

Press Conference:   Character is asked a variety of questions by the "press core"

Living Museum: Non-fiction works great for this strategy.  Students decide what aspects of the reading lend them selves to "demonstration

                                     stations."  Each station involves an activity that is manned and explained by a knowledgeable student. 

Book Sale: turn the retelling of the book into a book sale.  The purpose is to "sell" the story to the other students so that they will want to read the

                         book.
Characterizations: Following a retelling of a particular character, students create a monologue that demonstrates comprehension of that

                                            character.  The goal is to make this person come alive.  Have students dress the part and preform for the class.

Moving Through a Mural:  Materials: long sheet of butcher paper, crayons, paint markers, craft sticks, white construction paper, other craft

                                                                                     materials (optional)

                       Method: Assign different groups to work on different parts of the setting along the butcher paper.  Students are to then create

                                           representations of characters, which they then glue to the craft sticks to create "puppets" of the characters.  Students then act

                                          out the story using the backdrop of the setting and the characters they created.

                        Enrichment: This could be then taken to a Seniors Lodge or Lower Grade and preformed for an audience.

Triaramas:  Materials: construction paper (precut 10"X10"), construction paper scraps, glue, scissors, crayons, markers and other craft material.

                           Method: 

                     Enrichment: Use to retell important parts of the story in small groups, to a partner, or in a retelling conference.  Can be made independently

                                            or with a partner,  Three or four can be put together to form a multiscene, multisided display.
















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