Reading about the eight different profiles was extremely interesting. As I began to look back over them, I began trying to classify my students into one of the eight profiles. A lot of my second graders would fall into the "Literalists, Fuzzy Thinkers or Left Fielders" profile. One intervention that I thought would be very helpful with all three categories is making a chart. The chart would consist of important character and their personalities, logical relationships between evens in the story, problems the character encountered and the plan of action the character took in order to solve the problem. A chart is a good tool for students to be able to visually see what is going on in the story.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Noteblog 6-- Due 2/23
After reading the assigned readings for the week I began to recall my own experiences of reading comprehension. In grade school, we were assigned a reading and then had to complete a worksheet with ten questions on it. In the article, "Profiles in Comprehension" Applegate notes, "When it comes to assessing the reading comprehension of their students, teachers tend to use a large proportion of of questions that require factual recall of information included in the text... they are calling for their students to engage in recitation." This is exactly what happened to me in school. This form of "learning" is not very useful. Students cannot make connections from their lives to the story, they are simply just recalling/reciting facts from the story.
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I found the Profile of Comprehension Article very interesting as well as useful knowledge to use when writing our lesson plans. I never really thought that the way a teacher poses a question can effect a students comprehension to a certain extent. To me that is extreme power that a teacher has. Which is good, in a way to benefit the students if you know how to pose those questions. If you do not know how to pose certain questions this could cause problems for both you and your students. Very Powerful:) But I also liked this article to look back at my focal students and my classroom in general to see what type of thinkers the students are and what you can do to help the students expand their explanations and thoughts of reading different pieces of literature. looking at your blog I see that profiles can be directed to any student, it is not based on grade or age, because I have studnets that are "fuzzy thinkers" and Literalists just as I see some of your students would be classified. I just find this all so interesting.
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