There are lots of books about teaching questioning. Questioning is great for reading comprehension and young children LOVE to ask…
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5 Reasons for Teaching Comprehension Strategies
Why should you be teaching comprehension strategies? Let’s take a journey to the past to find out why. Who is…
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Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Roundup
We all need more ideas for reading comprehension instruction. It is such an important topic and is the most important…
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How To Use Reading Exit Tickets
Reading Exit Tickets are a versatile tool in your bag of tricks. These standards-based questions give students plenty of practice…
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10 Ways to Build Background Knowledge
Background knowledge is essential for helping students understand a variety of texts and to increase reading comprehension. Students come to…
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Monitor Comprehension: The Who-What Strategy
Helping students learn to monitor comprehension with the Who-What strategy will be a win for your classroom. It will lead…
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Students Who Don’t Monitor Comprehension
Have you ever listened to a student read who doesn’t monitor their comprehension? We pull a student to read to…
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Using Think Alouds to Help Students Use Strategies
Do you ever wonder why you teach reading comprehension strategies to students and yet many students don’t seem to use…
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