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The Picture/Text Walk
Prereading is a very important step for a good reader. Every year when I get a new group of students and we begin the study of our first story, students are quick to point out that they know they...
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Thinking about Your Reading
This is one of the ultimate goals of reading instruction: get your students to think about their reading. We teach them skills strategies for comprehension and then give them time to practice under...
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Monitor, Pause, Clarify
Over the last week, my students have been practicing the comprehension strategy Monitor and Clarify while reading a variety of texts in groups, individually and online. I have found this strategy to...
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Reading Lingo
Getting students to understand not just a reading strategy, but the terminology for each strategy seems to be one of the keys for me. If I just keep using the words monitor and clarify, visualize, and...
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Inferring with Norman Rockwell – Finding the Clues
One of my favorite ways to teach inferencing skills to students is to use Norman Rockwell. He captures the hearts of so many of us: young and old. He has a realistic sense of humor, a poignant grasp...
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Comprehension Strategies: Visualization and Non-Verbal Learning Disorder
Visualization Strategies for Comprehension We ask students all the time to imagine a scene from a book. Visualization is an important tool we use to help students seek greater comprehension while they...
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Reading Comprehension: Teaching Vocabulary
Why Is Teaching Vocabulary Important? Vocabulary is a critical component of reading comprehension. In order for students to make sense of the text, they need to understand the meaning of the words...
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Story Elements: Describing Characters
Improving Comprehension Through Character Analysis Understanding the characters in a story is essential to students’ overall reading comprehension. Characters provide many clues for the reader to...
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Helping Students Make Connections To Improve Reading Comprehension
Making Connections When we read a text, our previous experiences, knowledge, and emotions help us to make connections to the text and relate what we are reading to what we already know. This skill is...
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Response To Intervention: Assessment and Support in the Classroom
What is Response to Intervention (RTI)? RTI is a process that is designed to give all students success in the general education classroom. In stead of waiting for the student to fail in order to be...
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Reading Resources: Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis
Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement is a book that was suggested to me early in my teaching career. I used it extensively in the classroom, and continue to...
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Reading Resources: 7 Keys to Comprehension by Susan Zimmerman and Chryse...
While Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement was written to assist teachers in the classroom,7 Keys to Comprehension: How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It! is...
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