Reading comprehension tips

A post with a FREEBIE to help families with what questions to ask about reading at home with their students. This powerful resource is a game changer!

Comprehension strategies

This week, we learned … … there’s a lost continent in the Indian Ocean. How do you lose a continent? What’s a microcontinent? How’d scientists find the lost continent? … how Ikea names…

Questioning is a reading strategy that is taught to students to help them to better engage with the text. It helps the reader to clarify what he or she is reading and to better understand the text. Asking good questions is a way for students to monitor their own comprehension while reading.

This Reading Comprehension Worksheet - The Lost Kittens is for teaching reading comprehension. Use this reading comprehension story to teach reading comprehension.

Improve reading comprehension with text connections! Teach students in elementary and middle school to make connections with the text. These engaging activities and examples will help students make text to self, text to text, and text to world connections. Check out the mentor and guided questions today! #readingstrategy #readingcomprehension

Our principal has really been encouraging us to add more writing into our daily lesson plans. "They should be writing all day long" he tells us. The research is there to back him up. I bumped into this Roll and Retell page from Fun In First on Pinterest awhile back and finally figured out how to add it to our learning day. I printed and laminated four copies of the Roll and Retell page to hand out to each of my four table groups. After a round of Daily 5 I handed them out. I also gave each…