A great way to help students increase their understanding of content text is to get them talking and sharing with one another about a text.  Instead of asking simple knowledge and comprehension questions about the text, have students work with partners or small groups to answer 3-4 process or reaction types of questions over the [...]

Students often have the attitude that once they have read a particular text that they do not need to read the text again. As educators, we need to help students understand that they are not finished with a text just because they have “read it once.” We need to help them understand that just as [...]

As primary students are reading their own books, give them slips of paper that start with a sentence stem such as: I think…; I noticed…; I like…; I learned… or I wonder…” Ask each child to record the title of the book at the top of the paper and to then complete the sentence stem [...]

After children learn to decode text, the next most important skill for them to develop is the ability to comprehend what they read. One of the ways to check for understanding is to have children explain what has been happening in the section of text that they have read. When children can summarize the actions [...]