Teaching comprehension

Have students who just can't remember what they have read? I have ten reading comprehension strategies to use right away to help them out!

Reading Comprehension Strategies for Struggling Readers | Perfect for kids in kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd, grade, 4th grade, 5th grade, and all through middle school, these reading comprehension activities and ideas will appeal to even the mos

Hello friends! A little over a year ago, I blogged about how I used decoding strategies to begin guided reading. I've loved using the task cards and hearing how they have worked for other teachers! So I decided to create similar task cards for comprehension. It's been a long process, but I'm so excited that they are finally finished! It is so important to explicitly teacher our readers to use strategies. This helps readers to be purposeful and effectively make sense of what they are reading…

Guided reading questions for character, plot, making connections and reading strategies.

It’s important to help your students understand the reason behind the strategies you are teaching. At the start of the lesson, tell the students the comprehension focus they’ll be learning. Next, explain to them how using that skill will help them become better readers. Finally, teach and model the strategy and give your kiddos plenty of opportunities to practice using the new skill. #guidedreading

How to make reading comprehension instruction engaging with ideas from the book DIsrupting Thinking by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst

This resource provides lots of great tips on how to specifically help struggling readers. The author breaks down exactly what reading comprehension is and even lists ways that parents can help their readers at home!

what are effective reading comprehension strategies to help readers and struggling readers in your upper elementary classroom? this reading strategies list will help guide your reading instruction

This post has been a LONG time coming! I just keep adding to it, reorganizing it, and adding some more. I'm happy to finally push Publish on this one! So I must warn you: This is like a three year

Teaching context clues with nonsense words makes students really tackle what the word could be. It brings out the giggles too!