Case Study

Read each question carefully and answer the questions in detail. Use your textbooks, readings, and PowerPoint presentations to guide your response.

• Your responses will more convincing if they are supported by citations.
• When you answer these questions, you will do so from the point that your reader has very little knowledge of reading comprehension.
• If correctly answered, any reader will be able to take your recommendations and implement them in a classroom.
• Make sure you have added sufficient details and information to warrant getting full marks for each question.

Scenario 1: Read the following case study and answer all questions.

As soon as Sandra, a new teacher got over the initial shock of her first year of teaching, she began to observe the different ways in which her fourth grade students comprehended the same passages. Omar, one of her bilingual students, had trouble understanding how pronouns connected one sentence to another. He told her they didnt have all those little words in his native language. Julia found it difficult to recognize transitions from one sentence to another when the author didnt put in clear transitional words. In her oral reading, she phrased these as if the author were starting a new idea. Laticia was excellent at stating the facts of the passage but wasnt likely to add any new information. She focused on what the author said and didnt add information from her own knowledge. All of Sandras students struggled when a selection wasnt clearly organized, particularly in their content texts. Sandra also noticed that her own questions were sometimes unfocused and seemed to confuse her students rather than help them focus on something important in what they were reading.

1. What does this case study demonstrate about comprehension?

Scenario 2: Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.

In the opening of Charlottes Web, (White, 1952), Fern lens that her father is on his way to the barn, carrying an ax, with the intent of doing away with the runt pig that was born the night before. Ferns mother explains that the pig would probably die anyway. Outraged at the unfairness of killing the pig, just because it is weak and little, Fern runs after her father and pleads for the pigs life. He gives in to her plea, saying Ill let you start it on a bottle, like a baby. Then youll see what trouble a pig can be (p3).

1. What advice would you give Sandra to help her develop good question techniques? Assist her by demonstrating the appropriate questions she could ask from this passage. State the reason why you are asking each type of question.
2. Identify and describe two strategies that she can model/use with her students to help them answer questions.
3. Describe one technique or strategy you would select to train Sandra to help all of her students become proficient in reading comprehension. Explain why your choice is effective (use citations to support your answer).

Submission Instructions:

• Your answers are to be clear and concise and students will lose points for improper grammar, punctuation, and misspelling.
• Explain and answer the questions thoroughly in a minimum of 6 pages in length.
• References used in your answers should be formatted per current APA. Incorporate a minimum of 5 current (published within the last five years) scholarly journal articles or primary legal sources (statutes, court opinions) within your work.