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Wrap Up 1 PDF
AUTHOR Bremer, Christine D.; Vaughn, Sharon; Clapper, Ann T.; Kim,
Ae-Hwa
TITLE Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR): Improving Secondary
Students' Reading Comprehension Skills. Research to Practice
Brief: Improving Secondary Education and Transition Services
through Research.
INSTITUTION National Center on Secondary Education and Transition,
Minneapolis, MN.
SPONS AGENCY Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
PUB DATE 2002-07-00
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DESCRIPTORS Classroom Techniques; *Cooperative Learning; *Reading
Comprehension; *Reading Difficulties; *Reading Improvement;
Reading Instruction; *Reading Programs; Reading Skills;
*Reading Strategies; Secondary Education
IDENTIFIERS *Strategic Reading
ABSTRACT
This brief introduces a research-based practice,
Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR). This reading comprehension practice,
designed to improve secondary students' reading comprehension skills,
combines two instructional elements: modified reciprocal teaching and
cooperative learning or student pairing. In reciprocal teaching, teachers and
students take turns leading a dialogue concerning key features of text
through summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting. Reciprocal
teaching was developed with the intention of aiding students having
difficulty with reading comprehension. CSR is implemented in two phases:
teaching the strategies and cooperative learning group activity. During the
first phase, students learn four strategies: preview, click and clunk, get
the gist, and wrap up. Preview is used before reading the entire text for the
lesson and wrap up is used after reading the entire text for the lesson. The
other two strategies, click and clunk and get the gist, are used multiple
times, after each paragraph, while reading the text. During the second phase,
students engage in peer-led cooperative learning groups. Teachers first set
the stage for engaging cooperative groups and then select materials for CSR.
Procedures during this phase include whole class introduction, cooperative
group activities during CSR strategies, and whole class wrap up strategies.
(Contains 17 references.) (CR)
Collaborative Strategic
Reading (CSR): Improving
Secondary Students' Reading
Comprehension Skills
National Center on By Christine D. Bremer, Sharon Vaughn, Ann T Clapper, and Ae-Hwa Kim
Secondary Education
and Transition
Creating Opportunities for Youth The Problem
With Disabilities to Achieve Reading comprehension is a critical skill for secondary students with disabilities,
Successful Futures
as it facilitates participation in mainstream content-area classes. Unfortunately,
A partnership of many secondary educators are not adequately equipped to provide reading
Institute on Community Integration,
instruction. This Brief introduces a research-based practice, Collaborative
University of Minnesota, Strategic Reading (CSR), developed by Janette K. Klingner and Sharon Vaughn
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(1996, 1998).
National Center for the Study
of Postsecondary Education
Supports (RRTC), University Overview of CSR
of Hawai'i at Manoa CSR is a reading comprehension practice that combines two instructional
TransCen, Inc., elements: (a) modified reciprocal teaching (Palincsar & Brown, 1984), and (b)
Rockville, Maryland
cooperative learning (Johnson & Johnson, 1987) or student pairing. In recipro-
PACER Center, cal teaching, teachers and students take turns leading a dialogue concerning key
Minneapolis, Minnesota
features of text through summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting.
Institute for Educational
Leadership, Center for Workforce
Reciprocal teaching was developed with the intention of aiding students having
Development, Washington, DC difficulty with reading comprehension. Palincsar and Brown found that seventh
National Association of State graders with poor reading comprehension skills achieved sizable gains through
Directors of Special Education, use of the reciprocal teaching method. More recent studies using reciprocal
Alexandria, Virginia
teaching have found it to be effective with struggling middle school and high
U.S. Department of Education, school readers (Alfassi, 1998; Lysynchuk, Pressley, & Vye, 1990). Klingner and
Office of Special Education
Programs, Washington, DC Vaughn (1996) originally designed CSR by combining modified reciprocal
teaching with cooperative learning. Through a number of research trials, CSR
has been refined and currently consists of four comprehension strategies that
students apply before, during, and after reading in small cooperative groups.
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These reading strategies are: (a) preview (before reading), (b) click and clunk
offering information (during reading), (c) get the gist (during reading), and (d) wrap up (after
'hnilt Strategic Instruction reading).
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A teacher initially teaches students to wrap up by about 80% of the words correctly, (b) reading
telling students to pretend they are teachers and to materials having themes and supporting details,
think of questions they would ask on a test. The (c) reading materials consisting of several para-
teacher suggests the following question starters: who, graphs, and (d) reading materials containing
what, when, where, why, and how. The teacher also clues/pictures for predicting (Texas Center for
encourages students to generate some questions that Reading and Language Arts, 2000).
require an answer involving higher-lever thinking 2. Clunk cards. Each of the four clunk cards con-
skills, rather than literal recall. Finally, the teacher tains one fix-up strategy. Fix-up strategies
asks students to write down the most important included in the clunk cards are: (a) reread the
ideas from the day's reading assignment. sentence with the clunk and look for key ideas
to help you figure out the word think about
Phase 2. Cooperative Learning Group or what makes sense, (b) reread the sentences
Student Pairing before and after the clunk looking for clues, (c)
Once students have learned the four strategies look for a prefix or suffix in the word that might
(preview, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap up) help, and (d) break the word apart and look for
and have developed proficiency applying them in smaller words that you know.
teacher-led activities, they are ready to apply CSR in
3. Cue cards. Cue cards outline the procedures to
their peer-led cooperative learning groups. Some
be followed in a cooperative learning group.
teachers find it easier to have students work in pairs,
They remind students of each step of CSR for
and that has also proven to be a successful practice.
each role. Each role comes with a corresponding
Procedures for using these strategies with groups are
cue card that explains the steps to be followed to
outlined below.
fulfill that role (see Figure 1 for a sample cue
Set the stage. First, the teacher assigns students to
card for a CSR leader).
groups. Each group should include about four
students of varying ability. Then, the teacher assigns 4. Learning log. CSR learning logs serve two roles:
roles to students. Roles should rotate on a regular (a) written documentation of learning, assuring
basis so that students can experience a variety of the individual accountability that facilitates
roles. Possible roles include the following: cooperative learning, and (b) study guides for
1. Leader Tells the group what to read next and students (see Figure 2 for a sample CSR
what strategy to use next. learning log).
2. Clunk Expert Uses clunk cards to remind the 5. Timer (optional). Timers that students set by
group of the steps to follow when trying to themselves can help groups to remain on task.
figure out the meaning of their clunk(s). 6. Score card (optional). The scorekeeper in a group
3. Gist Expert Guides the group toward getting the follows a cue card to find out when to award
gist and determines that the gist contains the points, and records these points on a score card.
most important idea(s) but no unnecessary Process. The basic steps to apply CSR in a
details. cooperative learning group are as follows:
4. Announcer. Calls on group members to read a Step 1: Whole class introduction. The teacher intro-
passage or share an idea. duces the topic, teaches key vocabulary, and
provides instructions.
Materials. The following materials may be
helpful as a teacher assists students to use CSR and Step 2: Cooperative group activity during preview,
cooperative learning techniques (Klingner, Vaughn, click and clunk, get the gist, and wrap up. Each
Dimino, Schumm, & Bryant, 2001). group member plays an assigned role and fills
1. Reading materials. When selecting reading out a CSR learning log during the activity.
materials for CSR, the following factors are Step 3: Whole class wrap up strategy. A teacher
recommended for consideration: (a) reading discusses the day's reading passage, reviews
materials at students' instructional level, which clunks, answers questions, or shares some
generally refers to students being able to decode review ideas.
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Who would like to share their Go back and repeat all of the Let' s go around the group and
best ideas? steps in this column over for each share something we
each section that is read. learned.
Compliments and
Suggestions
The Encourager has been
watching carefully and will now
tell us two things we did really
well as a group today.
Adapted from Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts. (2000). Professional development guide:
Enhancing reading comprehension for secondary students-part II. Austin, TX: Texas Center for Reading
and Language Arts.
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Brainstorm: What do you already know about this Predict: What do you think you will learn by
topic? reading this passage?
The Gist (main idea): Write the Gist of the section you read.
Make questions: Make questions about main ideas. Review: Write something important they learned.
Adapted from Texas Center for Reading and Language Arts. (2000). Professional development guide:
Enhancing reading comprehension for secondary students-part 11. Austin, TX: Texas Center for Reading
and Language Arts. For use in the classroom, this figure should be expanded to fill an entire page.
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