Motivate students with independent reading by adding engaging reading sprints...turn the traditional reading log upside down!

Wondering how to address gaps in reading comprehension with older students? Here are 8 important questions and answers from an expert.

Teaching struggling readers at the high school level? Scaffold their comprehension by focusing on these four important reading strategies.

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Creating Reading Comprehension High School Practice Worksheets takes tons of time and effort. Check out this blog post to read about how to integrate test prep into every activity, so you don't have to sacrifice literature: poetry, short stories, plays, etc. You can help students by providing critical thinking questions with reading comprehension stems that mirror the standardized test. Be sure to cover central idea, citing evidence, structure, author's purpose for test prep in your…

Reading is one thing that many students struggle with. Some students get the underlying messages right away, while others need a little extra help. By the time students reach the high school level, we hope their reading levels have improved from their elementary years. While the majority of students' understanding have improved by the time they reach high school, there are still many students who get frustrated and struggle to read. Below, I will explain and discuss five important and…

Getting middle school students excited about reading is really challenging, and without fun and engaging texts to read, students will quickly lose interest. One sure-fire way to keep students engaged in your reading class is to use reading comprehension worksheets about topics they are actually interested in. That's why we have put together this list of fun and interesting reading comprehension worksheets for middle school students. As always, these are FREE to use in your class. Simply…

Reading Comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a text. This understanding comes for the interaction between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the text.

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Using Micro Teaching--stories students can read in under 10 minutes--is a great way to introduce skills, techniques and so much more in high school English classes. For AP® Literature and all ELA classes 9-12.