Link to Comprehension Strategies wiki:
GSSD Reading Comprehension Strategies
What reading strategies do I use to enhance comprehension in WITHIN, ABOUT, and BEYOND the text?
A Network of Processing Systems for Reading
Professional Resources on Reading Comprehension Strategies:
Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller ( 2002 ). (Primary)
Reality Checks: Teaching Reading Comprehension with Nonfiction K-5, Tony Stead (2005).
Nonfiction Reading Power, Adrienne Gear (2008). This link also provides a book preview.
Reading Power: Teaching Students to Think While They Read Adrienne Gear (2006). Read this book online when you follow the link.
Comprehension Shouldn’t Be Silent: From Strategy Instruction toStudent Independence
Michelle J. Kelley and Niki Clausen-Grace
(Note: This professional resource was given to all grade 5 teachers in GSSD)
Guided Comprehension in Grade 3 – 8
Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen
Reading Comprehension Overview: International Reading Association website
Overview, Lesson Plans, Webinars and Podcasts (free)
Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grade 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities
Jeff Zwiers
Quality Comprehension: A Strategic Model of Reading Instruction Using Read Along Guides, Grade 3-6
Sandra K. Athans and Denise Ashe Devine
Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction
Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann
The Comprehension Toolkit: Grade 3-6
Stephanie Harvey and Ann Goudvis (Comprehension Toolkit)
Professional Articles on Reading Comprehension:
- Comprehension Strategy Instruction in Core Reading Programs (IRA Reading Research Quartlery. April, May, June, 2009)
- Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy . this link also includes a lesson from ReadWriteThink. (IRA The Reading Teacher. September, 2009)
- Providing Powerful Comprehension Instruction (October 2009). Reading Today, 27(2), 17.)
Variety of web links on reading comprehension:
The Busy Teachers Cafe: Comprehension Strategies - includes making connections, visualizing, questionning, inferring, determining importance and synthesizing.
The Reading Lady:
- Strategy Posters
- The Reading Lady on Reading Comprehension
Comprehension Strategy Posters (From Prairie Valley School Division. This link has an elementary list and a middle years list of reading strategies.)
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for students and teachers in K-4 using eight strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Downloads, songs and videos are avaiable.
Inferencing
- Inferencing Mini-Lessons (Mandy Gregory)
- Inferring from Into the Book
- Inferring from the Busy Teachers Cafe
Visualizing
- Visualizing from Into the Book
- Visualizing from the Busy Teachers Cafe
Questioning
- Questionning from Into the Book
- Picture Book List for Questionning from the Reading Lady
- Questionning from the Busy Teachers Cafe
- Questionning Mini-Lesson by Mandy Gregory
- Questonning the Text lesson by Stephanie Harvey on Scholastic
Connections
- Making Connections from Into the Book
- Picture Book List for Making Connections from the Reading Lady
Summarizing
- Summarizing from Into the Book
Synthesizing/Transforming
- Synthesizing from Into the Book
- Synthesizing from the Busy Teachers Cafe
Evaluating/Determining Importance
- Evaluating from Into the Book
- Determining Importance from the Busy Teaches Cafe
- Determining Importance combied information from Harvey and Miller
- Determining Importance from Karen Haag at LikeToRead.com
