Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies: A Practical Classroom Guide

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies is a step-by-step guide based on the latest reading comprehension research and is the result of Sheena’s learning journey into research-based practice and her experiences teaching in a real classroom.

This much-anticipated new edition supports teachers by providing practical guidance based on three core pillars of knowledge:

• the latest reading comprehension research
• extensive classroom experience
• research-based practice.

The resource includes:

• An explanation of each strategy and how it supports comprehension
• The language to use when teaching a strategy
• Guided and independent student activities that support teaching of the strategy.

Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies contains detailed step-by-step guidance on how to introduce and teach the following strategies:

• Activating prior knowledge
• Self-monitoring
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Making connections
• Visualising
• Inferring
• Summarising
• Synthesising
• Skimming
• Scanning.

The resource also includes a section on building vocabulary knowledge. An extensive range of teacher and student-friendly support material is available from the eBook, including a huge range of activities, blackline masters, posters and more. This resource is suitable for primary/elementary and intermediate/middle school teachers.

This product includes a printed book with eBook. The eBook access code is inside the cover.

Table of Contents

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How to use this resource

Part One: Introduction

• Section 1: Key information
• Section 2: Teaching reading comprehension strategies

Part Two: The Key Strategies

• Activating prior knowledge
• Self-monitoring
• Predicting
• Questioning
• Making connections
• Visualising
• Inferring
• Summarising
• Synthesising
• Skimming
• Scanning
• Building vocabulary knowledge

Acknowledgements

References

Strategy links to The Reading Activity Handbook

List of blackline masters

List of support materials

Strategies activities index