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Essential Strategies. 60 Content Reading Strategy Activities. Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension. 1. Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. They have strategies to "fix" problems in their understanding as the problems arise. Research shows that instruction, even in the early grades, can help students become better at monitoring their comprehension. Comprehension monitoring instruction teaches students to: Be aware of what they do understand Identify what they do not understand Use appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension 2.

Metacognition can be defined as "thinking about thinking. " Students may use several comprehension monitoring strategies: Identify where the difficulty occurs "I don't understand the second paragraph on page 76. " 3. Graphic organizers illustrate concepts and relationships between concepts in a text or using diagrams. Regardless of the label, graphic organizers can help readers focus on concepts and how they are related to other concepts. 4. 5. Pinterest Reading Strategies. Reading Fluency Strategies. Jump to our Reading Fluency Activities Page The following strategies and activities are designed to achieve two primary goals: 1. To help children read words accurately and effortlessly. 2. Readers become fluent from: Explicit instruction, feedback & guidance ANDPracticing with appropriate textsFor detailed knowledge on reading fluency itself we recommend the following information: Click here to download Fluency Tasks, Texts, and Teaching Reading Fluency Strategies Repeated Reading Repeated reading means that students read the same reading passages or texts repeatedly until a desired level of reading fluency is achieved.

A version of the method of repeated reading we often use is as follows: An adult chooses a passage to read that is slightly above the child’s instructional level but still one that will promote student success. Click here to download a First Grade Words Correct Per Minute Graph Click here to download a Second Grade Words Correct Per Minute Graph Repeated Reading Homework Log.