Instructional Materials
Provides many instructional strategies, lessons, and materials for teaching reading comprehension. Includes comprehension strategy lessons (e.g., "get the gist"), story maps, KWL charts, other graphic organizers, and Spanish-language materials.
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Booklets
Comprehension Instruction
Booklet about research-based comprehension instruction, including explicit strategy lessons and questioning the author.
Podcasts
Comprehension: Activating Prior Knowledge
Shows how to use an anticipation guide to activate students’ background knowledge.
Podcasts
Comprehension: Get the Gist
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to identify a text’s main ideas.
Podcasts
Comprehension: Summarizing Text
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to write a summary.
Booklets
Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Booklet with step-by-step lessons for teaching vocabulary and comprehension.
Booklets
Effective Instruction for Middle School Students with Reading Difficulties: The Reading Teacher’s Sourcebook
Booklet with lessons and materials for teaching older struggling readers.