Cindy
Certified Tutor
Undergraduate Degree: Northwest Missouri State University - Bachelors, Elementary Ed/Early Childhood
Graduate Degree: William Woods University - Masters, Curriculum and Instruction
In my free time, I enjoy walking my dogs, jogging, and traveling to different state and national parks. I am also an extreme sports enthusiast who enjoys skydiving, rappelling, and white-river rafting.
Elementary School Math
Elementary School Reading
Elementary School Science
Elementary School Writing
Other
Study Skills
Study Skills and Organization
What is your teaching philosophy?
To help a student with reading comprehension, I would use the following techniques: 1.) I would monitor the student's comprehension and make sure the students are also aware of their own understanding of what was read. 2.) Metacognition is "thinking about thinking." Have students use reading prediction activities prior and after reading, have the student identify where the difficulty in understanding occurs and what it is, and then have the student restate the difficult sentence or passage in their own words. The students could also look back or forward in the text for help. 3.) Using graphic and semantic organizers to help illustrate concepts and relationships in the text. These also help students organize their thinking of the story. 4.) Using the Question-Answer Relation Strategy encourages students to learn how to answer questions specifically and more completely. 5.) I would have the students generate their own questions about the text, and then have them summarize what they just read. Effective comprehension instruction can help students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading comprehension.