Guided Comprehension: Knowing How Words Work Using Semantic Feature Analysis

Materials and Technology

Student Interactives

Printouts

Websites

Preparation

 

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

• Computers with Internet access
  
  
• Three instructional-level texts (see Aesop’s Fables for an online collection of fables)

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STUDENT INTERACTIVES

Grades   K – 12  |  Student Interactive  |  Organizing & Summarizing

Venn Diagram

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

 

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PRINTOUTS

• Semantic Feature Analysis Chart for The Rough-Face Girl
  
  
• Summary Sheet: Student-Facilitated Comprehension Routines

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WEBSITES

• Scholastic: Folktales
• Folktales Around the World
• Scholastic: Myths from Around the World
• ReadingQuest.org: Semantic Feature Analysis

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PREPARATION

1.	Access ReadingQuest.org: Semantic Feature Analysis to familiarize yourself with semantic feature analysis. Another recommended resource is the book Guided Comprehension: A Teaching Model for Grades 3–8 by Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen.
2.	Using a classroom computer and a projection screen, visit the Scholastic: Folktales website to test the audio ability on your computer. Make sure that you can play the online story The Rough-Face Girl by Rafe Martin so that students will be able to hear it in class.
3.	Copy the Semantic Feature Analysis Chart for The Rough-Face Girl onto a transparency or recreate it on chart paper.
4.	Select a myth from the website Scholastic: Myths from Around the World or a print resource in your classroom to use during Stage 1.
5.	Gather three instructional-level texts that match the needs of three levels of reading in your class (see Aesop's Fables for an online collection of fables).

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