IRA/NCTE Standard #3 states: Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

As middle level students learn to read with texts, they need to employ a variety of reading strategies. An example of a strategy that readers use is to vary reading rate to match the purposes and difficulties of the text. Each of these reading strategies has one or more instructional strategies that you should demonstrate in your teaching lessons.