Reading In The Content Area

Present in your posting a content-area book that can be used to explore such emergent text structures as schema, questioning, visualization, inference, and meaning making. What content-area book will you use? How will you engage or motivate students to comprehend using specific text structures as identified in the readings? How will you assess comprehension of reading in the content areas in such authentic assessments as drawings, compositions, or storytelling as illustrated in the readings?

See an assessment sample, visualizations for sunflakes in Figure 2 of “Kindergartners Can Do It, Too! Comprehension Strategies for Early Readers,” page 517.