Alison Davis

Minds on + Hands on Comprehension = Thinking Readers

There are many skills and strategies which thinking readers use – before, during and after reading. These minds-on strategies need to be taught to students in a systematic and explicit way so they have deep understanding of everything they read. There are multiple opportunities in a teaching day for teachers and librarians to model minds-on strategies – and the in-head cognitive processing - with both narrative and factual texts. Hands-on strategies can be modeled with digital or enlarged text, guided reading text or independent reading books to produce the construction of meaning. So minds on reading + hands-on strategies = deep comprehension.