Reading Comprehension

Reading comprehension is more than answering questions at the end of a passage. Strong comprehension instruction helps students think deeply about text, analyze information, make connections, and communicate their understanding clearly. In elementary classrooms, effective comprehension teaching includes explicit strategy instruction, meaningful discussion, and intentional work with both fiction and nonfiction texts.

Reading Comprehension | Differentiation | English Learners

Graphic Organizers with Language Support

When students struggle to explain what they’ve read, the gap is usually not about understanding. They understood the text. What’s hard is organizing their thinking and putting it into academic…

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Reading | Fall | Reading Comprehension | Social Studies

Thanksgiving – Making Connections Between a Series of Events

This elementary Thanksgiving unit helps students understand the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving and gives them tools to make connections between those events. By the end of the…

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Reading | Fall | Reading Comprehension | Social Studies

Describe the Connection Between Historical Events

Describe the connections between historical events is a Common Core Standard that is hard to teach! Here is how I taught this standard with the events leading up to the first Thanksgiving. Through this unit, students asked and answered questions, we made a timeline, we read great books, AND we figured out the connection between historical events.

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Reading | Fall | Reading Comprehension | Social Studies

Ask and Answer Questions about Thanksgiving

Asking and answering questions can be hard for students! We set up a routine where students would write 6 questions and other students would answer those six questions. This was the perfect way for me to monitor whether students could ask and answer questions about any topic! Here is how we applied it to Thanksgiving.

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Reading | Reading Comprehension

Reading Notebook Example for Second Grade

We’ve been having fun with our Reading Notebooks. I love how this one turned out, so I thought I’d share it with you. First, we read My Name is Yoon,…

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Reading | Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension Posters – Strategies and Skills

Reading comprehension posters that focus on 24 reading skills and reading strategies that elementary students use when reading to learn. Some skills and strategies include: compare and contrast, identify main idea, make connections and more. The posters come in multiple formats and are great for helping students learn the language patterns of the comprehension skills. They come with prompts, responses, and graphic organizers.

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