Reading Strategies for Social Studies

Web English Teacher Tips and resources for supporting struggling readers SmartBlogs The Common Core State Standards Initiative focuses on rigor and raising expectation in classrooms nationwide. It calls for an increase in reading complexity for students of all ages. As principals and teachers work hard to ensure their curricula are standards aligned, are struggling readers at risk of being left behind? The 10th reading standard says that by the end of the year, students will read and comprehend texts at their respective grade level independently and proficiently. The common core website provides guidance on Page 4 of Appendix A, where readers will find a chart with updated information about text complexity by grade band and associate measures. As a classroom teacher, it is immensely challenging to ensure that all students get what they need at their level, especially in large classes. There is a common misconception that in fourth or fifth grade, teachers can stop teaching decoding. You know your learners.

PC_SITE_NAME - Free Readers' Theater Plays Readers' Theater plays are an excellent way to get students to revisit the text of a novel - and have considerable value in themselves for improving reading and comprehension. For some of Tim Rasinski's research, click here. Each play of the free plays below calls for 4 or 5 student actors, someone to do sound effects, and about 40 minutes of preparation time. The actual performance time for a script is about five minutes, but if students decide to make an audio recording of their performance you'll have to allow much time for re-takes. Three new plays now availableWe've commissioned writer Joan Axelrod-Contrada to create new readers' theater plays based on Edge novels. Listed below are the scripts that we used for testing to produce our book Readers Theater Plays. These popular scripts are available as Adobe PDF files: For an audio sample of students performing Student Narc, click here.

Comprehension Activities The FreeReading Comprehension activities are organized into three categories: Introduce, Reintroduce and Build Mastery. The following is a description of the types of activities you will find within each category: Introduce - students are introduced to comprehension skills through a read aloud. Reintroduce - students will complete a graphic organizer to practice the application of a comprehension skill. The activities below address important comprehension skills and strategies. Click here to see all comprehension printables, which includes graphic organizers and game templates.

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SRA Reading Materials Intensive instructional support for primary or secondary students with reading difficulties. Corrective Reading provides intensive, sustained direct instruction to address deficiencies in decoding and comprehension. Designed to provide differentiated personalised instruction to each learner. A complete core programme that uses: Two major strands and four instructional levels address a wide range of reading problems. The Decoding and Comprehension strands can be used separately as a supplemental reading intervention or combined for use as a comprehensive reading intervention programme. Choose the Decoding strand for students who do not read accurately or whose oral reading is choppy, as well as for less fluent readers who lack comprehension when they read. Select the Comprehension strand for students who need to develop vocabulary, background information, and reasoning skills that are the foundation of comprehension. Features: Free Downloads: Sample Lessons

Comprehension: In Depth The scientific research on text comprehension instruction reveals important information about what students should be taught about text comprehension, as well as information on how it should be taught. What should classroom teachers know about text comprehension? Text comprehension can be improved by instruction that helps readers use specific comprehension strategies. Comprehension strategies are conscious plans — sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Monitoring comprehension Students who are good at monitoring their comprehension know when they understand what they read and when they do not. Comprehension monitoring instruction teaches students to: Be aware of what they do understand Identify what they do not understand Use appropriate strategies to resolve problems in comprehension Metacognition Metacognition can be defined as "thinking about thinking." Students may use several comprehension monitoring strategies: Using graphic and semantic organizers Answering questions