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Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit
The Reading Fluency and Comprehension Toolkit (eBook plus Links to YouTube Modeled Readings) provides 43 expository animal fluency articles and 43 corresponding animal comprehension worksheets
Predict to Increase Comprehension
Students can improve reading comprehension by self-monitoring their understanding with specific cueing strategies. Prediction is one of the five SCRIP comprehension strategies.
Interpret to Increase Comprehension
Students need to learn to dialog with narrative and expository text. Self-generated student questions can significantly improve reading comprehension. Teach students how to use this cueing…
Re-think to Increase Comprehension
Reading is not a natural process. It is caught, not just taught. One way to improve reading comprehension to develop internal cueing strategies. The Re-think cueing…
Connect to Increase Comprehension
Making connections to self, the text, and resources or events outside of the text can improve reading comprehension.
Summarize to Increase Comprehension
Teaching readers to summarize sections as they read will significantly increase reading comprehension and retention.
Reading Intervention Whys, Whats, and Hows
All too often, reading intervention assessment is limited to establishing the whys. Teachers also need specific whats to inform their hows of instruction.
Common Core Vocabulary: 12 Program Assessment Questions
The Common Core State Standards affirm much of what elementary and secondary ELA/reading teachers have always been doing. However, the breadth, complexity, and depth of instruction…