Students, with some help from the teacher, may:

​General Strategies for Reading Comprehension

• Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing.
• Predicting.
• Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization.
• Questioning.
• Making Inferences.
• Visualizing.
• Story Maps.
• Retelling.

Content area reading is most simply, reading to learn. It encompasses all the skills and abilities required for a student to read the complex, informational text found typically in Social Studies, Science, and Math. Content area reading is most engaging when primary sources are used.

1. Determine and summarize important ideas and supportive details.
2. Make connections between and among important ideas in the text.
3. Integrate new ideas with existing background knowledge.
4. Ask themselves questions about the text.
5. Sequence events and ideas in the text.

25 Reading Strategies That Work In Every Content Area

• Reread.
• Activate Prior Knowledge.
• Use Context Clues.
• Infer.
• Think Aloud.
• Summarize.
• Locate Key Words.
• Make Predictions.

6 Elementary Reading Strategies That Really Work

1. Assign Cross-Grade Reading Buddies.
2. Make Ear Reading Available to Your Class.
3. Teach Academic English.
4. Give Students Choice in the Books They Read.
5. Have Students Read the Same Text Multiple Times, in Multiple Modalities.

Reading strategies is the broad term used to describe the planned and explicit actions that help readers translate print to meaning. Strategies that improve decoding and reading comprehension skills benefit every student, but are essential for beginning readers, struggling readers, and English Language Learners.

Jigsaw is a cooperative learning strategy that enables each student of a “home” group to specialize in one aspect of a topic (for example, one group studies habitats of rainforest animals, another group studies predators of rainforest animals).

The three stages of reading are pre-reading, through reading and post-reading.

Essential Components of Reading

• Overview.
• Phonemic Awareness.
• Phonics.
• Fluency.
• Vocabulary.
• Comprehension.
• Spelling.

For example, the Developmental Stages of Learning to Read, outlines 5 distinct stages: Awareness and Exploration of Reading Stage (pre-K), Emergent Reading Stage (pre-K to early Kindergarten), Early Reading Stage (Kindergarten to Grade 1), Transitional Reading Stage (Grade 1 to Grade 2) and Fluent Reading Stage (Grade …

The four main types of reading techniques are the following:

• Skimming.
• Scanning.
• Intensive.
• Extensive.

Reading involves a number of sub-skills.

• Global Comprehension.
• Understanding the Plan of the Text.
• Making Predictions and Informed Guesses.
• Local Comprehension.
• Guessing the meanings of Unfamiliar Words.
• Skimming an Scanning.
• Understanding Discourse Markers.
• Understanding the Organization of a Text.

SQ3R is a reading comprehension method named for its five steps: survey, question, read, recite, and review. Remember: The information you gain from reading is important. If you just “do it,” without learning something, you’re wasting a lot of your time.

Donot be misled by minor details; focus on the key ideas: Pay attention to the central ideas only. Details are irrelevant here. Donot obsess over single points/ideas. They may be stated directly but donot convey the main idea or theme of the passage.

SQ3R is especially beneficial to readers because: It activates knowledge and thinking about the text even before the student begins reading. It allows the student to review information as he is learning it. It creates study guides students can use to review for tests.

SQ3R is five-step technique that you can use to learn more effectively, and to increase your retention of written information. It helps you to focus what you need from a document, and to create a clear structure for the information in your mind.

Research shows that students using SQ3R reading comprehension strategy performed reading activities better than those who did not. By using SQ3R strategy students can retain several reading pages, which otherwise are very stressful for them.

KWL, an acronym for Know, Want-to-know, and Learned, is an effective way to read with purpose. KWL is easy to apply and can lead to significant improvement in your ability to learn efficiently and to retain what you have learned.

To guide students in completing a KWL chart, choose another topic, place a blank KWL transparency on the overhead, and distribute a copy to each student. Allow the students to independently complete the “Know” section of the chart. As a class, share individual answers, brainstorm other ideas, and discuss responses.

The KWL chart is useful to complete formative assessment in the classroom. It allows the teacher to find out the students prior knowledge on a particular topic. From this knowledge the teacher is then able to gear their lessons based upon this information.

Another strategic underpinning of the KWL chart is that it activates students’ prior knowledge by asking the question, “What do I already know?” The chart is divided into three columns, labeled “What do I already know?” “What do I want to know?” and “What have I learned?” The answers to the first question are listed by …

K-W-L charts are graphic organizers that help students organize information before, during, and after a unit or a lesson. They can be used to engage students in a new topic, activate prior knowledge, share unit objectives, and monitor students’ learning.

The KWL reading strategy is an instructional technique used to improve reading comprehension. It also improves a student’s ability to remember the material. KWL is most often used with expository reading materials such as classroom textbooks, research articles, and journalistic pieces.