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.
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.
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.
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,…
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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