Kindergartners Can Do It, Too! Comprehension Strategies for Early Readers

In the article by Gregory and Cahill I read several engaging comprehension strategies to engage the children. While reading, it enabled me to reflect and recall some of the comprehension strategies my teacher uses in the classroom I work in at Christenberry Elementary. In a particular center was a book that the children had previously read. They were to choose a part of the story and write it on lined paper. Then, they were asked to illustrate what part of the story they wrote about. It was interesting to see how the children interpreted the story in their minds as they drew it on paper and rewrote the part of the story in their own words. I also spoke with the children at the center as they were writing and drawing thee parts of their story they enjoyed. The children loved hearing about which part of the story their friends were writing about and how they "remembered" that part of the story and what they liked about it. Additionally, in this article I found the pictures the author included of the various strategies the teacher used with the children to be very interesting. One of the strategies the teacher used that I would enjoyed the most was the sheet of paper the teacher gave the children that included a poem they had written with a blank space for the children to illustrate their interpretation of the story. Rather than doing a poem because"full-length stories can demand to much cognitive attention", the teacher could choose a particular page or part of the story and have children write about it.