Monitor+for+Meaning

=****Monitor for Meaning**** = TEKS
 * Monitor his/her own comprehension and act purposefully when comprehension breaks down using such strategies as rereading, searching for clues, and asking for help (1-3);
 * Establish purpose for reading selected texts and monitor comprehension, making corrections & adjustments when that understanding breaks down (e.g., identifying clues, using background knowledge, generating questions, re-reading a portion read aloud)
 * Monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, re-reading a portion aloud, generating questions);
 *  A establish purposes for reading selected texts based upon own or others’ desired out come to enhance comprehension

==**__**Monitor for Meaning Think aloud:**__** ==
 * Read and stop for 2-3 think alouds. (“While I reading....., I realized that I didn’t understand.........so I used the Fix-Up strategy......to help me understand. Use the list of stems to help model)
 * Explain that the purpose of Fix-Up strategies is to monitor and repair comprehension while listening to and reading text. (When I don’t understand what I read, I do certain things to make sure that I understand before I continue reading.)

==**__**Stems to Use When Modeling Monitoring for Meaning:**__** == “This is (not) making sense because. . .” “This connects (or doesn’t) to what I already know/already read because. . .” “Now I understand .” “This makes sense now because. . .” “No, I think it means. . . .” “This part is really saying. . .” “At first I thought, but now, I think. . .”

==**__**Introducing Monitoring for Meaning:**__** ==


 * On a chart with Fix-Up Strategies at top, record what you do to monitor and repair comprehension during think alouds while reading various texts. (For example: //notice// when understanding is lost, //stop and go back// to clarify thinking, //reread// to enhance understanding, //read ahead// //identify and talk about//what is confusing about the text, recognize that //all questions about a text have value//, //sound it out//, //speak to another reader//, //read the text aloud//, //go slow//.) to clarify meaning,

==**__**Lessons for Monitoring for Meaning:**__** == [|Fix Up Strategy Bookmark.pdf]

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