A great way to evaluate what students know about using comprehension strategies is to utilize the strategy of “Jamming a Text”. This strategy will help you see how students visualize, predict, make connections, summarize, question, and infer. Here is a quick summary of how to “Jam a Text”.
1. Provide a list of the six comprehension strategies.
2. Give each student 3 post-it notes.
3. Choose a read aloud.
4. Select three stopping points in the read aloud.
5. At each stopping point, ask the students to jot down their thinking.
6. Add the students’ post-it notes to your list of comprehension strategies and sort them. (Wallwisher)