Reading strategies

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Hands-on pre-reading activities that encourage your elementary students to access their prior knowledge and make predictions.

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.

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

This reading response worksheet is ideal for practicing story elements, reading strategies, comprehension, text connection, author study, vocabulary work and so much more!

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Learn the ins and outs of how to teach a guided reading lesson. From prereading activities to word work to assessing students through performance assessment, you will find helpful tips and strategies to teach students how to read.

The best way for disfluent readers to become fluent is by reading! These students need to focus on ACCURATE text reading, use decodable text, repeated readings, systemic daily practice of reading words accurately, modeling of fluent reading and encouraging students to read like they are talking. Students need LOTS of opportunities to read text (at their level) using choral, cloze, echo and partner reading. These are great fluency strategies are for interventions. #fluency #fluencystrategies

Reading comprehension strategies for all types of learners. Encourage and

As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me – it just clicked. When I had students that didn’t improve their reading with my strategies, I didn’t understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I […]