Teaching Reading
National Reading Panel
Reading Comprehension Strategies

Strategies that can help improve text comprehension.

Monitoring Comprehension

To understand what you are reading, one must learn how to be aware of understanding what you are reading. Teaching metacognition strategies help students learn ways to understand what they are reading before, during, and after reading required information. Before reading, students need to understand the purpose for reading. They also need to review what they will be reading. During reading, students need to monitor what they do understand and what they do not understand to fix any problems they might have in understanding what they are reading. After reading, they will need to have graphic organizers to help them check understanding of what they have read.
Before Reading:
• Predict what the text will be about
• Connecting reading to background knowledge
• Set purpose of reading by creating sensory images......

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