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Title:
| Teaching Tips: Reading Comprehension Strategies |
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Description:
| These sites offer various strategies to improve reading comprehension for students at all grade levels. Includes many online stories and questions to test reading comprehension. There is a reading comprehension inventory and research articles on this topic. Many pages can be printed out and used in the classroom. Some of the tips include KWL charts, story maps, word maps, and story pyramids. There are also links to eThemes Resources on graphic organizers, guided reading, and literature circles. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
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Resource Links:
| Reading Comprehension
This site offers worksheets to help students comprehend the material. Click on the red buttons to open the links. This site is for grades 3-5.
Reading Quest
A variety of strategies to improve reading comprehension are included on this site. Click on the links for explanations and handouts.
Story Map
This story map graphic can be used for any story to help students better understand the material.
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Use these sample stories to help students improve their reading comprehension. Includes questions at the end of each story. The reading material targets upper elementary students and above. NOTE: Site contains advertisements.
Shuttle Photography Activity
Junior high and high school students can read this article and test their reading comprehension.
Story Pyramid
Students can fill out a story pyramid to help improve their comprehension of the story. This exercise can be used with all grade levels.
KWL
KWL (Know, Want to know, want to Learn)is a strategy for improving reading comprehension. This activity explains how to use a KWL chart to utilize this strategy.
ABC Teach: Comprehension Exercise
This is a story about George W. Bush for middle school students that includes comprehension questions.
ABC Teach: Reading Comprehension: Middle/High School
Click on the links to read stories and then answer the comprehension questions. These stories are for middle/high school students.
ABC Teach: Reading Comprehension, Grades 4-6
Choose one of the following categories: "Fictional," "Holidays/Seasonal," and "Informational." Once you select a category, click on a title to read a story and then answer the questions. These stories are for students in grades 4-6.
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
This site has several handouts with short stories followed by questions that test reading comprehension. These stories are for students in grades 3-5. NOTE: The site has a pop-up ad.
Reading Online
This is the official site for a scholary journal sponsored by the International Reading Association. Read these articles for the latest studies on reading.
Reading Online
Scroll down to read this research article about reading comprehension and how it can be improved. A reference list is included.
School-Home Links Reading Links
This page has activities for beginning readers to test their comprehension and other reading skills. The focus is on first-grade students.
Scaffolding Comprehension Strategies Using Graphic Organizers
Four strategies for comprehending reading are introduced to students through modelling and whole class instruction in this lesson for grades 6-8.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Graphic Organizers
These sites have printable and interactive graphic organizers to be used in the classroom. Includes KWL charts, webs, clusters, timelines, outlines, fish diagrams, story maps, comparing charts, cause and effect charts, and more. Some sites explain how and why to use graphic organizers in the classroom.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Literature Circles
These sites explain the benefits of using literature circles to have students discuss books. Includes tips and handouts on how to organize the groups, how to lead discussions, and how to assess student participation. Learn about the different student roles and their discussion duties. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on guided reading.
eThemes Resource: Teaching Tips: Guided Reading
These sites offer information about guided reading for primary and upper elementary grade levels. Read a case study, plus see how teaching strategies and tips have been implemented in different classrooms. Topics include the Four Blocks teaching method with emphasis on the guided reading and self-selected reading blocks. Also learn how to assign levels to books.
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Education Standards:
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MO Standards:
1.1, 1.2, 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.10, 2, 3, 5
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