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Reading Comprehension Strategies
Organize and understand information for comprehension. Main focus on activating prior knowledge, making connections, predictions, visualizing, inferences and main ideas.
reading comprehension strategies • teaching reading comprehension strategy • drawing inferences • activating prior knowledge • making connections

Independent Reading Strategies
Independent reading is a time for students to make their own book choices, apply reading strategies, have large blocks of time to read and set independent reading goals.
independent reading strategies • reading workshop • explicit reading strategies • motivated readers • comprehension strategies

ELLs and Strategic Reading
This article shares one idea of how to use the Iditarod as a vehicle to practice inferring with English Language Learners.
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Reading Visualization Strategy
A middle school lesson plan that expands on the during- and post-reading strategy of visualization, helping students understand its impact on their reading process.
visualization reading strategy • reading comprehension strategy • middle school reading strategies • during reading strategies • student reading process

Beginning of School Primary Reading Lesson Plan
The book First Day Jitters by Julie Danneburg helps teachers teach students to create teacher-like questions to help them comprehend and remember information they read.
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The Reciprocal Teaching Primary Reading Strategy
The four parts of the reciprocal teaching reading strategy teach elementary students to comprehend and decode text by predicting, clarifying, questioning and summarizing.
reciprocal teaching reading strategy • increase elementary reading comprehension • teach decoding to primary students • making reading predictions • clarifying reading strategy

Language Experience Approach
How to use the Language Experience Approach reading strategy, or LEA, with beginning readers to increase elementary students' ability to decode and comprehend text.
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2008 Summer Olympic Games Primary Lesson Plans
The Summer Olympic Games are a great way to use sports to motivate primary school students to increase reading and writing skills and practice elementary math concepts.
elementary olympic lesson plans • reading comprehension summary journal • olympic trivia questioning activity • primary compound word lesson • olympic themed writing prompts

Basics of Reader's Workshop
Implementing a Reading Workshop requires certain basic components which consist of: Modeling Mini-lessons, Independent Reading, and then Sharing and Reflection.
reading workshop • reading mini-lessons • independent reading • conferring with students • guided reading

ELL Integrated Thematic Learning
Integrating Social Studies and Science into Language Arts instruction is a tool to improve content comprehension and language acquisition for English Language Learners.
integrated thematic units • content comprehension • inquiry and content comprehension • social studies and english language learners • integrating esl lesson plans

Reading with Meaning, Teaching Comprehension
With the release of Debbie Miller's "Teaching with Intention," it's a good time to take a new look at her first book for primary grade teachers.
reading with meaning • teaching reading comprehension • debbie miller book • develop effective literacy program • primary teaching strategies