Checking for Understanding

One of the most important skills that we will practice this year in reader's workshop is monitoring understanding and rereading as needed. This is a skill that we learned about in our first week of school, and that we'll continue practicing throughout the whole year. We learned that readers can check for understanding as they read by stopping now and then and asking themselves questions like "who is the book about?" and "what has happened in the book so far?" This skill will support all of our comprehension work this year. Last week, students each got check marks with the words who and what on them as reminders to check for understanding. You can prompt students to monitor their comprehension at home by asking these two questions throughout the book as well!