
Mentor Texts for Teaching Text to Self Connections
One important reading comprehension strategy is to help students activate their background knowledge in order to boost reading comprehension. Teaching students about their schema (memories,
One important reading comprehension strategy is to help students activate their background knowledge in order to boost reading comprehension. Teaching students about their schema (memories,
When I teach students to make predictions in reading, I usually start by connecting it to real life. We might talk about what we predict
Monitoring comprehension is one of my very favorite reading comprehension strategies to teach! It goes along with one of my favorite mantras, that reading is
Making inferences is one of the key reading skills that good readers need to master! Piecing together information from the text and reading between the
One of my goals when teaching reading is to get students to realize that reading is thinking! The questioning strategy fits in well with this
Strong readers are able to automatically visualize a story. They create mental images constantly as they read, so when readers are no longer able to
Synthesizing is one of the more difficult reading comprehension strategies to teach. This higher-level type of thinking occurs when students combine their own schema with
One of the key concepts that readers need to use on a regular basis is determining importance. The ability to determine which parts of a
It seems like every reading curriculum I’ve used over the years never has enough “meat” to the poetry unit. Some curriculums didn’t even include poetry
Each school year, it seems like more and more gets added to my school day, but the time I have to teach stays the same.
There’s a reason why graphic organizers are popular from elementary school through college! These simple but powerful sheets of paper allow students to actively participate
If you’re here, there’s about a 99.5% chance that you’ve used anchor charts in your classroom. Anchor Charts have had a revolution over the last
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