Top 10 Reading Comprehension Strategies | Effective Reading Comprehension Strategies
Read, Read, and Read for a minimum of 90 minutes daily! Your classroom should focus on reading and nothing else if you have students that are not proficient readers!
Explain, elucidate, expound, interpret, make clear, illuminate, throw/shed light on, clarify, clear up, sort out, unravel, spell out. and imply the meaning of vocabulary and language. Make reading and language meaningful, fun, relevant, and understandable at all cost, everything else is moot for a student who cant READ! Be a loquacious, pedantic, verbacious, erudite, convincing, compelling, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, weighty, impactful, effective; valid, persuasive, eloquent, credible, influential, logical, reasoned, rational, reasonable, lucid, coherent, and cogent reading teacher.
1. Question Everything! SOCRATIC INQUIRY AND SOCRATIC
SEMINARs that inspire student lead inquiry and ignite deep engaging "self-analyzing" dialogue | Read and reread rich dense literature with higher order questions in mind, then engage in an effective time-efficient, dense dialogue about complex literary concepts.
2. Build Language and Vocabulary Capacity! Building Deep Background Knowledge i.e, Closing the Word Knowledge Chasm | Connect new knowledge with prior knowledge in a classroom that is rich in complex language and vocabulary. Explicitly Teach Tier 1, 2, and 3 Academic Vocabulary! A 20,000-130,000 word gap in language and vocabulary is a giant chasm to any students understanding and severely limits reading comprehension.
3. UNDERSTAND the MOST COMMON TYPES of Context Clues!
6. Reflection and Summarizing Important Literary Ideas and Concepts! Connecting new ideas to background knowledge using literary reflections and summarizing allows students to make inferences and draw conclusions.
8. Word Study and Word Analysis! Teach students how to decode, and pronounce new words by using pronunciation clues, chunking speech into phonemes, syllables, morphemes, graphemes, and mnemonic word attack strategies like D.I.S.S.E.C.T. Provides students an in-depth knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots word meanings. Teach students common Latin phrases.
Read, Read, and Read for a minimum of 90 minutes daily! Your classroom should focus on reading and nothing else if you have students that are not proficient readers!
Explain, elucidate, expound, interpret, make clear, illuminate, throw/shed light on, clarify, clear up, sort out, unravel, spell out. and imply the meaning of vocabulary and language. Make reading and language meaningful, fun, relevant, and understandable at all cost, everything else is moot for a student who cant READ! Be a loquacious, pedantic, verbacious, erudite, convincing, compelling, strong, forceful, powerful, potent, weighty, impactful, effective; valid, persuasive, eloquent, credible, influential, logical, reasoned, rational, reasonable, lucid, coherent, and cogent reading teacher.
1. Question Everything! SOCRATIC INQUIRY AND SOCRATIC
2. Build Language and Vocabulary Capacity! Building Deep Background Knowledge i.e, Closing the Word Knowledge Chasm | Connect new knowledge with prior knowledge in a classroom that is rich in complex language and vocabulary. Explicitly Teach Tier 1, 2, and 3 Academic Vocabulary! A 20,000-130,000 word gap in language and vocabulary is a giant chasm to any students understanding and severely limits reading comprehension.
3. UNDERSTAND the MOST COMMON TYPES of Context Clues!
1. DEFINITION / DESCRIPTION CLUEs
Signal words: Is, are Is /are called Is / are known as Is defined as Means, Refers to
2. EXAMPLE CLUES
Signal words: For example For instance Including Such as Specifically To illustrate
3. SYNONYM or RESTATEMENT CLUEs
4. CONTRAST or ANTONYM CLUEs
Signal words: But, however, although, otherwise, unless, instead of, on the contrary, on the other hand, while, unlike.
5. MOOD or TONE CLUEs
6. EXPERIENCE CLUEs
7. ANALYSIS or STRUCTURE CLUEs
8. INFERENCE CLUEs
9. CAUSE AND EFFECT CLUEs
Signal words: As a result Accordingly Because, Since Consequently For this reason Hence, if … then
10. COMPARISON CLUEs
Signal words: like, as, similar to, in the same way, likewise, resembling, too, also
4. Read Like a Detective! Infer, deduce, conclude, conjecture, surmise, reason, interpret; Study, analyze and explicitly teach the writer's craft through daily read alouds, making the Writer's Craft visible to strengthen students reading comprehension skills.
5. Demonstrate Erudite Thinking! Explicitly show students the thinking and analyzing process when reading, the Think-Aloud is a powerful teaching and learning strategy, teachers put into words the logical thinking processes used to analyze and understand a work of literature, academic concept, or new vocabulary words.
5. Demonstrate Erudite Thinking! Explicitly show students the thinking and analyzing process when reading, the Think-Aloud is a powerful teaching and learning strategy, teachers put into words the logical thinking processes used to analyze and understand a work of literature, academic concept, or new vocabulary words.
6. Reflection and Summarizing Important Literary Ideas and Concepts! Connecting new ideas to background knowledge using literary reflections and summarizing allows students to make inferences and draw conclusions.
7. Close Reading Using Keyword Outlines! keywords are selected while reading, they are fascinating, interesting and cogent words used to unlock the knowledge and meaning in a passage. Close reading is the careful, analytical, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of text to enhance understanding and reading comprehension. Such close reading places great emphasis on the single particular over the general, paying close attention to individual words, syntax, and the order in which sentences and ideas unfold as they are read.
8. Word Study and Word Analysis! Teach students how to decode, and pronounce new words by using pronunciation clues, chunking speech into phonemes, syllables, morphemes, graphemes, and mnemonic word attack strategies like D.I.S.S.E.C.T. Provides students an in-depth knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and roots word meanings. Teach students common Latin phrases.
9. Mind Movies! When Students use their Imagination and Visualize what they READ they will understand it a deeper level! Reading comprehension and a love of reading is vastly easier when we have the ability to visualize the concepts!
10. Students Need Practice Taking Real State Released Reading Assessments [Yes, Teach to the Test]. Teach Students the Art of Self-Evaluation, Self-Quizzing, and Self-Reflection of Their Understanding!
10. Students Need Practice Taking Real State Released Reading Assessments [Yes, Teach to the Test]. Teach Students the Art of Self-Evaluation, Self-Quizzing, and Self-Reflection of Their Understanding!
11. Teach and Practice Reading Fluency! Students that spend all their energy decoding or word calling won't have a clue what they are reading! Students that read at a vastly reduced rate will be exposed to 50,000-1,300,000 fewer words in print in a single year!
12. PLEASE, STOP BUYING AND USING ANODYNE BASAL READING PROGRAMS!
12. PLEASE, STOP BUYING AND USING ANODYNE BASAL READING PROGRAMS!
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