Comprehension Instructional Strategies

Comprehension strategies are different ways that we think while reading.

• Activate prior knowledge or background knowledge. Students may not always know what somethings means until they can relate it to something they do know.
• Making predictions
  • Making predictions and questioning what is happening in a story is a great way to improve comprehension. A student won't be able to make a prediction if they don't know what they are reading.
• Visualizing
  • Have students imagine what it would be like for them (how would it feel to be trapped on a glacier after the wind blew away your tent), (how do you think the caterpillar felt after eating all the sweets - The Very Hungry Caterpillar)
• Drawing Conclusions
  • Stories don't always tell us the exact end of the story, sometimes we need to draw conclusions, or read between the lines to know or understand what has happened.

References

• Cunningham, P. M., & Allington, R. L. (2016). Classrooms that work: They can all read and write. Pearson.
  
• Reading comprehension. Reading Rockets. (2022, May 7). Retrieved July 30, 2022, from https://www.readingrockets.org/reading-topics/reading-comprehension