[MOSAIC] Fix up strategies

[Shannon Winkler]

>I am looking for some ideas on how to teach fix up or monitoring your
>comprehensio strategies to my sixth graders. The first day I plan on 
>modeling what I
>do. Af ter that I would like to find some lesson ideas how to continue
>practice on this.   Thanks.
>
>Pat


Pat,
	I am working with my Title I Reading students (2nd through 
4th grade) on that very thing right now!  Last week I introduced the 
idea that they first have to notice and pay attention to the thinking 
that goes on as they read--paying close attention to their "two 
voices" of reading (the one that 'reads' the actual words on the page 
and the one that does the 'thinking' as you read--I introduced this 
by using the "tray" idea someone mentioned on the list a few weeks 
ago).  I made an anchor chart to post in the room about this for us 
to refer back to.
	After discussing this, I modeled with a small passage of text 
how I 'run into trouble' with my comprehension as an adult reader 
sometimes (just as you said you were planning on doing) and asked 
them to tell me what they noticed about my reading.  As they shared 
their observations I kept referring them back to our anchor chart on 
the "two voices" of reading, and how the "thinking" (monitoring) 
voice of my reading helped me to: 1) notice there was a problem, and 
2) helped me to know what to do about it.  I talked with them about 
different kinds of readers (readers who don't monitor their 
reading/notice problems and therefore do nothing; readers who notice, 
but choose to do nothing or don't know what to do; and 'strategic 
readers' who notice and use strategies to help themselves fix-up 
their reading at points of difficulty.
	Today I followed up on that intro lesson I did by simply 
having them read a few pages of text and place a sticky note strip 
next to text where they actually 'noticed' themselves paying 
attention to their 'thinking' voice--I did this because usually the 
kids that come to me are the ones that don't notice at all that 
there's been a break down in comprehension!
	I plan to teach them a strategy at a time over the next few 
weeks.  I have found some great ideas for teaching this in Chapter 2 
of STW.  Also, Snapshots by Linda Hoyt has some great ideas for 
minilessons on fix-up strategies.  The strategies I have planned to 
teach the students I see are...
Re-read (I call it "Re-wind" in my classroom and relate it to 
rewinding a movie when you missed a part you couldn't hear/didn't 
get); Read-on to gather more info (I refer to this one as "Keep on 
Truck'in").  For unfamiliar words I will teach them to:  look at word 
parts to help them understand an unfamiliar word; replace a tricky 
word with another one that would make sense; and learn how/when to 
seek help from another source (dictionary, partner, etc.).
	Additionally, as I teach all of the thinking strategies (i.e. 
visual images, questioning, etc.)  I plan to refer back to these 
'fix-up' strategies in order to show my students that sometimes it's 
not always enough to go back and simply re-read.  Sometimes you have 
to decide to do that AND make sure you're visualizing, etc. at the 
same time.

-Shannon




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