Comprehension Strategies

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Comprehension Strategies
By macaroney3

Here is a list of the strategies I teach (based on our district's reading program). I usually start with predictions, visualizing, asking questions and then go into the whole synthesis section. Once you get these done,
you can have students implement these strategies in literature circles (in addition to guided, shared, silent reading, and read aloud). The order is probably not as important as making sure your kids master each skill in isolation-do each subskill (the ones listed inside parentheses below) seperately, too. This applies to all of your readers, not just your strugglers. All students need

to know how to think while they are reading.

*Accessing Prior Knowledge
*Author’s Viewpoint
*Visualizing
*Asking Questions
*Synthesis (Making Connections (t-s, t-t, t-w), Sequencing, Summarizing, Retelling, Classifying/categorizing information)
*Inference (Predicting, Drawing Conclusions, Making Generalizations, Personal Interpretation, Forming and Supporting Opinions)
*Determining Importance (Main Ideas/Supporting Details, Text Features, Cause/Effect, Comparing/Contrasting)

Let me know if you have other questions. I love teaching reading!!!