Reading skills and strategies

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How do you infuse the teaching of reading skills and strategies? If you use a basal reading series, you most likely focus on one skill and strategy for a 1-2 week period. Even if you don't use a basal and find your own texts to use, it's a great practice to focus on re-teaching and reviewing comprehension skills and strategies. They're all so interrelated anyway. When I teach reading skills and strategies, I like to display a poster on our class focus wall. This lets anyone who walks in the…

A visual illustration of the hierarchy of skills required in children's reading skills

This resource is a Guided Reading Skills Chart. It focuses on skills you can and should be teaching during guided reading:- Print concepts- Decoding- Comprehension- FluencyFor each skill, there is a chart that provides strategies with explanations to ensure you are implementing successfully.

As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me – it just clicked. When I had students that didn’t improve their reading with my strategies, I didn’t understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I […]

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

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I often get questions about how to set up small group lessons in upper elementary. Strategy groups are one framework that can work for a variety of reading skills. Check out this post to learn more.