Northern Adelaide Regional Office. READING FIRST IN VIRGINIA | Professional Development - Instructional Activities for Comprehension Development: Strategy Instruction. We want our students to become active and engaged readers, a.k.a. strategic readers. As Shirley Brice Heath said, our goal as teachers is to assist students in becoming "an individualist, a reflective skeptic, a questioner, a doubter, an arguer, and an observing bystander. " Helping children become strategic readers is an involved process, one that does not necessarily happen from reading and questioning. We need to explicitly teach comprehension skills and strategies from the very beginning of the school years first through read alouds and then through the students" own reading experiences.
Comprehension strategy instruction has been proven to assist readers in their understanding of text. As you begin planning to teach comprehension strategies, you should first consider using text that does not exceed your students' word recognition abilities. Otherwise, if the texts are too difficult, your students' attention will be directed to the word level. Interactiveread-alouds. C_Final. Combook. K-2 Words Interactives. K-2 Writing Interactives. K-2 Listening Interactives. K-2 Reading Interactives. K-2 ABC Interactives. Schools - Games. Abcteach -- Free Printables, Interactives, Custom Documents, Clip Art, and Games.
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