Collaborative strategies reading students first able to bring their background knowledge and predict based on the whole component of the reading text. Second do the “click and clunk” strategies to understand the sentences, and the word meaning of a word that they are not able to understand. Third used the “gist” strategy to point out the most important part of the reading by answering in their own words “who or what is it about”, “what is most important about information about the who or what” as mentioned in the chapter. Last do the “wrap-up” step, where they will come out with questions and responds about the main idea of the text, to be able to see if the students comprehend and is able to recall what they have read. Throughout these steps students will work in groups by each student as mentioned in the chapter taking a role as a “leader, clunk expert, announcer, encourager, reporter, and timekeeper”. I think that the CRA is a great evidence-based practice, it tell students directly how are will they be able to come out with the main idea of the reading text by following simple steps that are easy to follow. If you look in figure 8-17 an example of CSR learning log, this example is helping students to have an idea of what they need to do and look when they are reading, especially a student with a learning disability I think it is easier for them to maintain a learning log like this that’s very detail and easy to …show more content…
I think that apart of demonstrating students how to find different ways to comprehend what they are reading, is also good for the students to have it either written down or even used picture to visualize the different kind of steps for