Digging Deeper!!!: Schema and Making Connections

This site has AWESOME ideas for comprehension strategies! Here is the link http://www.hallco.org/literacy/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=2

Here is some of the great ideas and anchor charts they have for schema and making connections. Make sure to download the student anchor charts!

Schema

Using and creating schema, or background knowledge

Good readers make connections between what they know and what they read. This can take the form of text-to-self connections, text-to-text connections, and text-to-world connections. But it can also mean that readers use what they know about a particular author or genre or type of text to help them comprehend.
Proficient readers...

activate their background knowledge before, during, and after they read texts
add new information to their schema and change existing schema as they read
recognize when they lack background knowledge about a topic and they know how to create it to get the information they need

Anchor Charts:

Our schema is organized like file folders in a cabinet.
We can add to and change our schema as we read.

Once students know they have schema, they can then
begin to activate it as they read.

Forms and Resources:

Texts for Teaching Schema:

Fireflies by Julie Brinkloe
Hazel's Amazing Mother by Rosemary Wells
I Know a Lady by Charlotte Zolotow
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Koala Lou by Mem Fox
My Great-Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston
Now One Foot, Now the Other by Tomie dePaola
The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant
Roxaboxen by Alice McLerran
The Two of Them by Aliki
Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
Oliver Button is a Sissy by Tomie dePaola

Digging Deeper!!!

Friday, November 4, 2011

Schema and Making Connections