Teaching reading strategies

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

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

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Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions & QAR Strategy - Raise the Bar Reading

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.

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

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

Here are some tips and strategies on how to teach reading fluency in your homeschool or in your classroom literacy centers.

This blog post, Using Graphic Organizers for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies, details the importance of using graphic organizer templates for reading strategy instruction in the upper elementary classroom (3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th grade). These include reading strategies like visualizing, making predictions, making inferences, and drawing conclusions.