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  • Clifty Creek Elementary School
  • Columbus, IN
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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I recently attended a professional development session about helping students comprehend what they are reading. One of the suggestions that really made sense to me was having students focus on a specific skill while reading a passage. For example, while students are wearing yellow sunglasses, they can only "see" details in the text about characters, or who they are reading about. They would use their yellow highlighters to highlight this information in the passage. While wearing the orange sunglasses, they could "see" and highlight the setting information. Engagement is vital in the quest to get students to focus on understanding what they are reading. By offering a fun way to approach the text through sunglasses and highlighters, and offering age appropriate texts through a Scholastic magazine subscription, I believe my students would be looking forward to this activity often! I would store all of the tools for this activity in the drawer storage cart in order to have it all ready to go when students wanted to use it!

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I recently attended a professional development session about helping students comprehend what they are reading. One of the suggestions that really made sense to me was having students focus on a specific skill while reading a passage. For example, while students are wearing yellow sunglasses, they can only "see" details in the text about characters, or who they are reading about. They would use their yellow highlighters to highlight this information in the passage. While wearing the orange sunglasses, they could "see" and highlight the setting information. Engagement is vital in the quest to get students to focus on understanding what they are reading. By offering a fun way to approach the text through sunglasses and highlighters, and offering age appropriate texts through a Scholastic magazine subscription, I believe my students would be looking forward to this activity often! I would store all of the tools for this activity in the drawer storage cart in order to have it all ready to go when students wanted to use it!

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