Using these engaging ideas for teaching questioning is so much fun. This reading comprehension strategy can be lots of fun to teach. There are tons of great picture books that lend themselves to teaching questioning. When you teach a strategy to students you need to revisit it often. In order for students to understand how and when to use a strategy, you have to model it often. You can teach a ... Read More about Engaging Ideas for Teaching Questioning

Picture books to teach the questioning strategy are a great way to improve reading comprehension. The pictures allow the teacher or the students to form questions before they have even read the book. When teachers read aloud, it gives them an opportunity to do think-alouds to show how they can ask questions while they read. Here are 10 picture books that are great texts to teach ... Read More about 10 Picture Books to Teach the Questioning Strategy

There are lots of books about teaching questioning. Questioning is great for reading comprehension and young children LOVE to ask questions. Preschoolers and Kindergarteners are so curious and asking questions come so naturally. But somewhere between Kindergarten and 3rd grade, a child's penchant for questioning, at least out loud starts to disappear. So lessons on asking questions are critical to ... Read More about Books About Teaching Questioning: Ideas from Experts

Why should you be teaching comprehension strategies? Let's take a journey to the past to find out why. Who is the main character? What is the setting? Tell me the beginning, middle, and end. When I started teaching reading in 1991, this was all I knew how to do. I read the story with my students, round-robin style, and asked a ton of questions. Most of these questions were printed in the ... Read More about 5 Reasons for Teaching Comprehension Strategies

We all need more ideas for reading comprehension instruction. It is such an important topic and is the most important part of reading. This blog post is a roundup of my best blog posts about how to teach and assess reading comprehension. I have put information all in one place so you can have all the information at your fingertips. Top Tips for Teaching Reading Comprehension Have you ... Read More about Teaching Reading Comprehension: A Roundup

Reading Exit Tickets are a versatile tool in your bag of tricks. These standards-based questions give students plenty of practice in answering questions. They are written so they can be paired with any fiction or non-fiction book and can be used in all parts of your reading classroom. You can grab a set of free exit tickets to try in your classroom today. Here are five ways they can be used in ... Read More about How To Use Reading Exit Tickets

Background knowledge is essential for helping students understand a variety of texts and to increase reading comprehension. Students come to school with different amounts of schema to help them read. The other part of background knowledge that is tricky is each text requires different background knowledge. For example, a book whose main character is a baseball player requires different ... Read More about 10 Ways to Build Background Knowledge

Helping students learn to monitor comprehension with the Who-What strategy will be a win for your classroom. It will lead to better reading comprehension. Have you ever sat down to read with a student and been fooled? The student will read beautifully and with expression. Everything seems to be going well until you ask some questions. When you ask the student to tell you about what they have ... Read More about Monitor Comprehension: The Who-What Strategy

Have you ever listened to a student read who doesn't monitor their comprehension? We pull a student to read to us and they begin to read. The student reads right through errors that don't make any sense. Or perhaps what the child is reading makes sense, but they either cannot remember what they read. Sometimes these students don't even realize there is a problem. Helping Kids Recognize When ... Read More about Students Who Don’t Monitor Comprehension

Do you ever wonder why you teach reading comprehension strategies to students and yet many students don't seem to use them? This had always frustrated me because I thoroughly taught each strategy. I modeled it and the students practiced it. They were successful in their practice, so why wouldn't they use it independently? I discovered my solution using Think Alouds. Why Students Just ... Read More about Using Think Alouds to Help Students Use Strategies

Teaching reading comprehension is the whole goal of reading. We want students to read and understand at very deep levels. However, while many students have a deep understanding of the texts they are reading, there are many students who just are not comprehending at the levels we want them to. I want to share my favorite tips for helping students increase their reading comprehension. Tip #1: ... Read More about My Best Tips for Teaching Reading Comprehension