Reading comprehension strategies

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Utilize these fantastic reading comprehension resources to help your student develop this skill.

Here is a great resource on reading comprehension strategies to use with your students in class. This is basically a chart created by the folks in Scholastic and is available for free download in PDF format. The chart is adapted from the work of Beal, Keene, and Tovani. The chart features 6 major reading comprehension strategies that students can use to improve and enhance their reading comprehension skills. These are:

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!

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite. Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading

Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.

Want to help your upper elementary students increase their reading comprehension? This post describes six key reading comprehension strategies to help you plan effective lessons focused on core reading skills. Fix-up strategies are also included to help students with comprehension difficulties. #3rdgradereadingcomprehension #4thgradereadingcomprehension #5thgradereadingcomprehension #upperelementaryreadingcomprehensionstrategies #upperelementaryreading

Once you’ve got your students in a guided reading routine, it's time to have them exploring what they’re reading and completing activities that develop their comprehension skills. This is no small feat when it comes to young readers because their writing skills are generally not developed yet which makes it difficult for them to express themselves independently. In order to set your students up to become comprehension experts, here are some tips and an overview of the order of progression…

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

These easy to use techniques can be used by teachers for students in upper elementary and middle school to develop stronger reading comprehension skills.