We hope you can use some of the strategies we've listed above and we want to hear what
reading comprehension strategies work best for you.
Fortunately, many traditional
reading comprehension strategies work well in content area classrooms.
Not exact matches
Typical
strategies focus on developing sight word vocabulary,
work with
reading comprehension, speech and language therapy to address articulation, phonemic awareness, receptive language, expressive language, and other speech and language disorder symptoms.
Wire Side Chat: Helping «Fake Readers» Become Proficient Life - Long Readers Cris Tovani, author of the best - selling «I
Read It, But I Don't Get It,» chats with Education World about her checkered
reading past and about her widely acclaimed
work with students and teachers in the area of
reading comprehension strategies.
It describes a personalised
reading curriculum framework, unbound by prescribed
reading libraries and pre-rendered schemes of
work, which is instead responsive to learner interests and needs, who collaboratively learn to independently apply
comprehension strategies.
This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 33 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation
strategies) * 147 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (9 tasks) that includes both
reading and writing skills Unit's lessons include: * Cloze activity on the play's contexts * Detailed, thorough
comprehension questions on each scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary * SPaG starter activities * Character crosswords * Huge 60 - question revision quiz * In - depth key scene analyses (including group
work) * Exploring characters - Helen, Jo, Peter, Boy, Geof * Exploring themes - marriage, motherhood, relationships * AfL activities - improving sample exam responses * Essay planning * Writing a formal essay on a chosen character * Writing a formal essay on a chosen theme * «Closed book» mock exam to reflect new GCSE exam expectations * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities
For
comprehension instruction, eight different instructional practices were observed and coded: doing a picture walk; asking for a prediction; asking a text - based question; asking a higher level, aesthetic response question; asking children to write in response to
reading (including writing answers to questions about what they had
read); doing a story map; asking children to retell a story; and
working on a
comprehension skill or
strategy.
Her
work with Siegfried Engelmann has focused on designing effective
strategies for memory development and
reading comprehension.
New Highland Academy principal Liz Ozol explained that the Mills Teacher Scholars»
work on literacy «set the stage for our entire school to focus on
reading comprehension strategies.
After more than 10 years
working with teachers to implement this
strategy, Beck and McKeown say that Questioning the Author enhances student engagement and
reading comprehension.
These findings are similar to those from our study of primary grade
reading instruction in schools beating the odds (Taylor et al., 2000), in which we found that word - level activities were infrequently observed in grade 3, and that
comprehension skill or
strategy work was seldom observed in grades 1 - 3.
Books Materials Class
work Steps Time: 20 - 30 minutes a day Testing Analyzing texts
Strategies, i.e. flashcards and computer programs,
Reading techniques
Comprehension Learning styles Characteristics
Reciprocal teaching at
work:
Strategies for improving
reading comprehension.