Teaching reading strategies

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

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

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

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

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.

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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 am un

Are you teaching your students reading comprehensionn strategies? The 10 free reading comprehension strategies will help your students practice key reading strategies with any text they read. Perfect reading activity for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students.

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 […]