Mentor Texts

. I love teaching about making text to text connections! My students always get excited about comparing and contrasting things from two books that we’ve

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