Reflection About Reading Comprehension

Introduction Throughout the three days of the learning segment, I worked with a total of six students with the central focus on the literacy skill of comprehension through retelling stories. The video took place on March 1st, 2018 at approximately 9:10 AM at Mt. Stuart Elementary School. The six students who participated in this lesson are at an above grade reading level. The lesson took place on the floor at the front of the classroom. The strategy used for this retelling checklist with graphic organizer. The second day of this learning segment was video recorded and then the video was observed by Mrs. Dwight, my mentor teacher from Mt. Stuart Elementary School. While watching the video, Mrs. Dwight made comments regarding

One student did get caught up on the word ‘etcetera’ but after a quick explanation of the word, student understood what it meant. Many times during the discussion point of the video, I asked a comprehension question and the students answered. Through that answer, we were able to build off that response and create another discussion point. The students noticed that Doctor De Soto only worked on specific animals and excluded some, they then asked themselves, “why does he do that?”

Post Reading

The book reading finished and I asked the students to then paraphrase what happened in the story. Four of the students answered this question. I then reviewed the 5-step story retelling anchor chart and told the students these things should be included in your written and oral retelling. The students then chose to work on the graphic organizer separately. Because of time constraints, I was unable to do the oral retelling portion of the story.

Dwight and I sat down to review the video, we both noticed a few places where I could work on to improve my teaching. During the start of the lesson, writing out the learning targets out for students to see and read is important. It allows the student to be able to put the learning target into their own ‘kid-friendly’ terms and restate it to show their own thinking. Also, I had fifteen vocabulary words and throughout the video we noticed that a few of the vocabulary words could have been omitted. She also recommended to have visuals or pictures to go along with the vocabulary to help students understand this. She also said have vocabulary in sentence strips can be beneficial as well, especially for English Language