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Comprehension strategies

A post with a FREEBIE to help families with what questions to ask about reading at home with their students. This powerful resource is a game changer!

Questioning is a reading strategy that is taught to students to help them to better engage with the text. It helps the reader to clarify what he or she is reading and to better understand the text. Asking good questions is a way for students to monitor their own comprehension while reading.

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

Let's do English ESL reading for detail (deep reading). I have successfully used this in my class. Students read the text about Big Ben and check their comprehe…

Tips, tricks and strategies for close reading. Top ways to successfully implement this reading comprehension strategy.