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An article provides seven strategies to help language users to make sense of text. These seven strategies have research-based evidence for improving text comprehension.
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Seven Strategies to Teach Students Text Comprehension
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What Is Scientifically Based Reading Research?
Reading Rockets
This website emphasizes the significance of research-backed methods in teaching reading. Explains how evidence-based practices are effective in fostering literacy skills and provides guidance for educators and parents to make informed decisions based on scientific research.
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Monitoring for Undertsaning: Make and Check A prediction
Florida Center for Reading Research
Provides a worksheet with instruction about how to actively read with kids. Shows steps and way that you can engage conversation to check comprehension and literacy skills.
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How Most Children Learn to Read
Reading Rockets
This website outlines the process of reading acquisition in children through everyday play and interaction, and discusses the essential components of reading while still acknowledging the individual variability in learning styles and paces. It also provides insights for parents and educators on creating a supportive reading environment and fostering a love for reading in children.
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Reading 101 for Parents: Comprehension
Reading Rockets
This webpage discusses the role of comprehension in reading, and offers insights into various strategies for parents to help to improve a child’s comprehension skills.
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Page 8: Teach Comprehension Strategies
The Iris Center
A webpage to provide the reading comprehension teaching strategies for teachers to add them into their teaching instruction. Included the strategies for three levels: beginning; intermediate; advanced.
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Reading and Writing SOS: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Reading Rockets
This webpage features a series of Q&A videos where experts answer questions from families and caregivers on supporting children’s literacy. Specifically, answers on how to actively support comprehension and vocabulary development in children’s literacy.
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The Simple View of Reading
Reading Rockets
An article to provide a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension.
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Learning Together About Reading Comprehension Strategies
Doing What Works
Professional development providers and literacy coaches can use this tool to introduce teachers to the key concepts in reading comprehension instruction. Included in this tool is a brainstorming and planning worksheet designed to facilitate preparation for comprehension strategy instruction.
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What Research Tells Us About Reading, Comprehension, and Comprehension Instruction
Reading Rockets
An article explains the active process of constructing meaning, and how good readers consciously employing comprehension strategies in reading comprehension.
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Word Play Storybooks
Word Play Storybooks
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Fantasy
Theme(s): Not available
Story time is a great opportunity to talk with children and build vocabulary. Choose one of the interactive stories. As you share it with kids, point out and talk about the new vocabulary words.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Let’s Make Up a Story
Let’s Make Up a Story
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Fantasy
Theme(s): Not available
Watch Rosita and her Abuela turn the night sky into a storytelling adventure. Later, try telling kids about a familiar story from your childhood, or a special family story.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Sesame Street Story Book Builder
Source: PBS Kids
Author: Not available
Ages: 3,4,5,6
Genre: Not available
Theme(s): Not available
Children can create their own virtual stories by interactively choosing among 3 options for character, place, activity, and feelings.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Grover’s Story Circle
Grover’s Story Circle
Source: Sesame Street in Communities
Author: Not available
Ages: 4,5,6
Genre: Not available
Theme(s): Not available
One or two kids can play. Help children follow the prompts to let the Sesame friends contribute to the silly stories. Play again and again to create a different version of each story each time. At the end of each story, listen to Grover read the whole story aloud.
Parent Guide: Not available
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Does Your First Grader Read to Learn Like This?
Great Schools
A first grader demonstrates that he understands what he has read. Watch as he tells what he learned from his book, and how he connects what he has read to what he already knows.
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Does Your Fifth Grader Show Understanding Like This?
Great Schools
Play a video in which fifth graders demonstrate that they understand what they read. Watch as they answers questions and point to evidence in the book to support their thinking.
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Dialogic Reading Video
Reading Rockets
Dialogic reading is an interactive shared picture‐book reading practice designed to enhance young children's language and literacy skills that has evidence of success with children with disabilities. Listen to Dr. Grover J. Whitehurst discusses dialogic reading with preschool‐aged children.
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Just Take 20 to Make Reading a Regular Routine!
Just Read, Florida!
Created by Just Read, Florida! this resource gives suggestions on how to foster a childŠ—Ès love of reading and make it special, fun and purposeful! Also includes printable bookmarks.
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Teacher and Student Literature Discussion Cards
Doing What Works
This sample material includes a lesson plan and discussion cards used by a third/fourth‐grade teacher to help guide text discussions. The discussion cards provide cues to help students become critical thinkers before, during, and after reading the text. Watch the presentation, Using Peer Collaboration and Self‐Reflection to Engage With Text, to see the lesson in action.
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Bat-Bird Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizer
Doing What Works
This organizer was used by a third‐grade teacher to teach the compare and contrast nonfiction text structure. It includes filled‐in student examples, sections for recording similarities and differences, and clue word comparisons. Watch the presentation Compare‐Contrast Graphic Organizer: A Whale Is Not a Fish to see how this tool is used.