{"id":5090,"date":"2012-04-04T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2019-03-27T14:27:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T19:27:09","slug":"how-do-i-teach-reading-comprehension-to-ells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/how-do-i-teach-reading-comprehension-to-ells\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I Teach Reading Comprehension to ELLs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/professionallearningboard.com\/blog\/\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"check_out_the_new_blog\" title=\"Check Out the New Blog\" alt=\"Check Out the New Blog\"  src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/images\/check_out_the_new_blog.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404ELLs-reading.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5091\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;margin: 5px 10px\" src=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/0404ELLs-reading.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>One of the ways to teach reading comprehension to English Language Learners ELLs) is through the INSERT method. INSERT or Interactive Notation System for Effective Reading and Thinking) is a method that encourages students to read actively and make notations right in the text, or on post-it notes.<\/p>\n<p>Notations are written using the following codes:<\/p>\n<p><em>X\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I thought differently.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>+\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0New information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>!!!\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Wow! Very important!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>??\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I don&#8217;t understand.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>=\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0This reminds me of something.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can help students remember the codes by displaying a chart on the wall and\/or giving the students bookmarks with the codes. As with any strategy, it is important that we model its use and give students ample opportunities to practice it.<\/p>\n<p>The INSERT strategy calls upon students to use higher order thinking skills such as assessing, discriminating, and comparing. It, therefore, fits into a classroom with a rigorous curriculum. It also encourages students to connect with their background knowledge.<\/p>\n<p>ELLs benefit from this strategy because when they want to refer back to a text for any reason, they don\u2019t have to struggle with reading the entire thing all over again but simply look for the marks that they had made.<\/p>\n<p>How might you teach reading comprehension in your classroom with the INSERT strategy?<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Learn more\u2026Take this course:<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/teaching-english-language-learners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Teaching English Language Learners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>  One of the ways to teach reading comprehension to English Language Learners ELLs) is through the INSERT method. INSERT or Interactive Notation System for Effective Reading and Thinking) is a method that encourages students to read actively and make notations right in the text, or on post-it notes.<br \/>\nNotations are written using the following [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[342,1613,517,1612,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5090"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24701,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5090\/revisions\/24701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12teacherstaffdevelopment.com\/tlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}