Language Arts Reading Comprehension Strategies
Reading Comprehension Strategies • Reading comprehension strategies are essential for students to become active and purposeful readers. • Our carefully curated picture books allow teachers to model targeted strategies while maintaining student engagement. • Included are a mix of new favorites, beloved classics, familiar illustrators, and award-winners to provide range and balance within a collection.
Language Arts | Reading Comprehension Strategies Every collection contains titles that excel in modeling comprehension strategies
Activating & Connecting to Background Knowledge All new knowledge must pass through the lens of previous experiences in order for meaningful connections to be made. Students can build upon their prior knowledge by making three different connections: Text-to-Self: Create webs of connections between personal experience and the themes, subjects, and ideas from a text. Text-to-Text: Compare and contrast subjects and themes between multiple texts. Text-to-World: Take concepts from the text and connect them to the outside world by relating to past, present, and future experiences.
Soon, they were inseparable. Their bond remains very strong to this day. They swim together, eat together, drink together, and sleep next to each other. They rub noses.
Questioning Formulating questions about a text requires a student’s curiosity and comprehension. Questioning and searching a text for answers develops an engaging and interactive way to obtain a deeper understanding of new information. Creating an atmosphere of ongoing dialogue and questioning encourages students to analyze and critique the texts they encounter .
Visualizing Readers create mental images with imagined sensory perception during and after they engage with a text. From vivid, descriptive passages to wordless adventures, students can assign certain pictures, emotions, or ideas to stories they read.
The uptown A Rattles past 110th Street Unreal to real Relaxing the soul
His hat had slipped, his arms drooped down, he really looked a fright— it made me start to wonder: What do snowmen do at night?
Summarizing & Synthesizing Although summarizing and synthesizing are two different strategies, they go hand in hand in processing information after engaging with a text. Summarizing is the process of concisely restating the main ideas of a text in one’s own words. Synthesizing requires students to build upon their background knowledge by connecting newly obtained information to what they already know in order to deepen one’s understanding of a text .
Inferring Many thoughts in a text are implicit, not explicit, and it is up to the reader to read between the lines to ascertain the author’s implied meanings. Scaffolding students in finding visual and context clues, thinking outside the text, and looking back on prior knowledge will facilitate students’ abilities to infer the meaning of new words or ideas.
Finally she couldn’t resist any longer. When Bellini was gone, she jumped up on the wire to try it herself. Her arms flailed like windmills.
Isn’t this a strange moss colored rock?
Determining Importance of Text Students are bombarded with information from hundreds of sources each day and they must decipher whether the information is relevant, interesting, or important. Many texts, specifically nonfiction, can be difficult to decode with multiple descriptive paragraphs on a page. Finding the essential information in a text that pertains to understanding a subject, versus information that is supplementary to the subject, is a crucial strategy in having students transition from trade books to textbooks.
The first day of summer, called the summer solstice, has more daylight hours than any other day of the year, making it the longest day.
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