Comprehension

Probable Passages, Reciprocal Questioning, Reciprocal Teaching, and Semantic Mapping
At this site, teachers will find suggestions for implementing instructional strategies to improve comprehension.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd23d.htm

Employing Fix-Up Strategies
This site contains information on fix-up strategies that good readers use to improve their comprehension. It includes tips for how to teach these fix-up strategies.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd21d.htm

Monitoring Comprehension
This site explains how to teach monitoring strategies that focus on questioning. The strategies include Your Own Questions, News Questions, QAR's, and ReQuest.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd21c.htm

Making Associations
Here teachers will find suggestions for helping students make associations between their background knowledge and what they are reading.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd21b.htm

Before Reading: Strategies for Anticipating Meaning
This site provides suggestions for before reading strategies that focus on previewing/surveying and setting a purpose for reading.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd21a.htm

Graphic Organizers
This site includes a variety of graphic organizers to aid students with comprehending fiction and nonfiction texts.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/learning/lr1grorg.htm

Promoting Comprehension with Fictional Texts

Story Map
Here teachers will find a basic story map format that can be printed out and applied to any fictional story.
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/pigs/story_mp.html

Sketch to Stretch
This site provides a lesson plan for the Sketch to Stretch strategy. This strategy has students sketch and share their responses to a story to promote comprehension.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAArtReadingSketchToStretch2up.htm

Promoting Comprehension with Nonfiction

Using an Author's Style and Text Patterns to Support the Reading of Information
This site contains information about elements of author's style and text patterns that affect student comprehension of content area texts. It provides instructional strategies to help students use an author's style and text patterns to improve comprehension.
http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips/lt39.htm

Graphic Organizers and Guided Writing Procedure
This site describes how teachers can use graphic organizers and the guided writing procedure to help students comprehend informational texts.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd23b.htm

ReWrite: A Music Strategy for Exploring Content Area Concepts
Here teachers will find a detailed description of the ReWrite strategy, including multiple examples.
http://www.readingonline.org/articles/bats/index.html

Anticipation Guide and Expectation Scheme
Detailed descriptions of ways to implement anticipation guides and the expectation scheme strategy to help students comprehend informational texts can be found here.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd23a.htm

K-W-L, Listen-Read-Discuss, Pre-reading a Chapter, and Pre-Reading Plan
Suggestions for implementing the K-W-L, Listen-Read-Discuss, Pre-Reading a Chapter, and Pre-Reading Plan strategies can be found here.
http://smasd.k12.pa.us/pssa/html/Reading/rihnd23c.htm

Reading in the Content Areas: Literacy and Learning Strategies
Detailed strategy lesson ideas for using a variety of formats, including Think-Alouds, Quick Writes, Jigsaw, and Cubing are available here.
http://www.litandlearn.lpb.org/strategies.html

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