Questions to ask while reading

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Here are some tips for asking effective questions to check for comprehension in readers of all ages.

Reading Comprehension for preschoolers and beyond. 5 Steps to help your child understand the meaning of text at home. I often feel as though much of the focus on young children is about learning to "read." And by that, I mean learning to "decode text". In order to read you have to be able to decode text but sometimes the focus is too heavy on decoding the text, and not enough on understanding the meaning of the text. Before children can read independently it's important they work on their…

I am so excited that Lindsay is having her first linky party! Lindsay is a fellow Texan who is moving from 5th to 3rd grade for this upcomi...

An explanation of a picture walk and why it is important to young readers.

How important is understanding and accessing prior knowledge before reading? It is vital to young readers, especially struggling readers.

A look at why summarizing skills are important, how to work on them, and a free printable story elements graphic organizer to teach kids how to summarize.

Here is a fun activity you could do at home to help improve reading comprehension and ensure that your children are understanding the meaning of the text. As I've mentioned before, we are taking part in the MeMeTales Readathon 2012. This week the theme for the Read-a-thon is Animals. The specific animal books are available free on the website this week so once you've joined up you'll be able to read them online. We read the Donkey and the Wolf and based this fun activity around that book…

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Telling a story with a bag is a wonderful and easy storytelling language activity with kids!

learning during read-alouds: making connections and questioning (with siblings!)

Good readers use specific reading comprehension strategies; strategies that kids can learn and that you can teach your kids.

Using the newspaper to help kids practice making connections when they read.

{photo credit} By far, the most visited place on my blog for the last couple of weeks has been fiction text features and structure. I thought I’d take the lead from my readers and post a mini-series of activities on fiction text structure that I’ve used with several students in tutoring. This is told as if I ... Read More about Teaching Fiction Text Structure Mini-Series