Corinne’s Blogfolio

I was reading Ashley’s blog on Making Meaningful Comments and helping students improve their comments and was inspired to read the blog post she refers to called Blogging and Reading Comprehension Strategies.

To summarize the post, Donna DesRoches talks about using Reading Comprehension strategies to teach children how to comment more thoughtfully on other’s blogs. She says young students can practice one strategy at a time, as a class, by commenting on each other’s blogs. The reading comprehension strategies help students understand what they are reading, relate it to their own lives, ask questions, make inferences about the subject or writer, synthesize the information, share their learning with others, and extend the discussion further by writing meaningful comments. Here is the link for the reading comprehension strategies Donna provides in her post.

I found this post very helpful because it links reading and writing, and it provides me with a tool to use when thinking about how I will teach young children to comment on other people’s blogs.

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