Reading

Metacognition: Simply put, "metacognition" is thinking about our thinking. This ability is essential to critical thinking because of its role in evaluating the success of current approaches and the extent to which they can be improved. In research literature, this process is called "self-regulated learning."

The next day, we made the following anchor chart to show what we learned from the real reading salad.

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Use these sentence frames while reading with your kids to improve their reading comprehension skills. Reading is a great time to engage your students and keep them thinking, absorbing new knowledge, and developing critical comprehension skills.

5 Reading Fluency Tricks for BIG KIDS

What do you do when your students struggle with reading comprehension? What strategies can you use to help your students actually remember what they read? If you struggle to find new reading comprehension strategies to try in your classroom, this blog post is for you. Put away those reading comprehension worksheets and try these engaging and fun activities that will help your struggling readers and special education students practice and improve their reading comprehension skills.

Have you ever been reading with a student and know that they are not fully understanding the text? Teaching reading comprehension is difficult and you can often feel unsure of the next steps to make progress with a student. Here is a blog post with tips to help. My Best Tips for Teaching Reading Comprehension will assist you in using the best strategies and activities to use with your kids learn to actively make meaning of the text.

10 Ways to improve reading fluency

Do you have a student (or several students) who struggle with poor reading comprehension? In this post, I share the step-by-step process that I use to improve my students’ reading comprehension! I wrote this post primarily for Kindergarten through 3rd grade teachers. However, if you are a Kindergarten teacher, some of these ideas may not apply to you (although some may). At the end, I’ll address Kindergarten separately. 🙂 Photo Credit: KK Tan, Shutterstock Gather More Information First, if I...

This tool helps teachers to combat the issue of a student struggling with recalling basic facts about what is read. It includes information about "word callers" and how the teacher can work with these students to meet their needs.