So today, I’m going to share 5 tips to help you effectively teach reading comprehension skills and strategies to your students.ġ. I had students that could correctly answer multiple choice comprehension questions, but couldn’t discuss a text in any sort of meaningful way.Īnd then I had students that could actively participate in any whole group or small group discussion about a text, but when it came to their independent reading they were lost.Īnd I’m sure there are other challenges you’ve faced.īut even though teaching reading comprehension can be challenging, we have to continue to seek out strategies and ideas that will help us improve our comprehension instruction. I had students that could apply reading comprehension strategies to SOME texts and not others. I had students that could read ANY level of text fluently and accurately, but they had NO idea what the text was about.
When I was teaching in the classroom I would often encounter some of the following challenges when trying to teach comprehension… I’m curious if you’ve ever experienced any of these: And one of the ways we can boost comprehension (understanding) is to teach students a wide range of comprehension skills and strategies. In order to be successful life-long readers, our students MUST be able to understand what it is they are reading. Without comprehension, there really isn’t any reading that is taking place…
Teaching reading comprehension can be one of the BIGGEST challenges we face as reading teachers… yet it is one of the most important parts of our reading instruction.
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