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Pre-teach vocabulary words(Gracelyn Yi)

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Ask questions about the topic before reading a book or passage. (Stella Harris)

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ask reading comprehension or text dependent questions 

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ask reading comprehension or text dependent questions 

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Alondra Acevedo

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Story Elements Graphic Organizer with Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution 

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Story Elements Graphic Organizer with Characters, Setting, Problem and Solution 

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Zully Rodelo

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Using Context Clues (Shatayia Pierce)

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Miranda Calhoun

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Oczuks, L. (2003). Reciprocal teaching at work: Strategies for improving reading comprehension. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Palincsar, A. S. & Brown, A. (1984). Reciprocal Teaching of Comprehension-Fostering and Comprehension Monitoring Activities. Cognition and Instruction, 1(2), pp. 117-175.

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Reciprocal teaching is a cooperative learning strategy that aims to improve students' reading comprehension skills, with four components: predicting, clarifying, questioning, and summarizing. A group of students take turns acting as the teacher in guiding the comprehension of a text.

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Setting a purpose for reading can help students stay focused, engaged, and motivated while also reinforcing their comprehension of the text being read.

(Niyay Z. Rotgers Rivera)

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Setting a purpose for reading helps keep students focused and engaged while reading, and gives them a mission so that comprehension can be reinforced. Reading with purpose motivates children and helps students who tend to rush, take their time reading so they won't skip over key elements in the text. Here are a few ways teachers can set a purpose for reading, as well as teach their students how to set their own purpose.

As the teacher, when you set a purpose for reading be specific. Here are a few prompts:

Read until you get to the part where so and so did this.

Stop reading until you find out about so and so.

Read until you discover___.

Read until you find out where the story takes place.

Close the book when you figure out the problem in the story.

After students have completed your task you can help build comprehension by asking them to do a few quick activities. Here are a few suggestions:

Draw a picture of what they think will happen next in the story.

Create a concept map recording elements in the story.

Write down a problem they discovered while reading the story.

Ask critical thinking questions, such as "What the solution to the problem in the story?...What is the purpose of this book?....What is the author trying to accomplish?...What issues arise in the story?"

Retell the story in your own words with a partner.

Compare how the characters have changed throughout the story.

Before teaching students how to set a purpose for what they are reading make sure they understand that a purpose drives the choices they make while they are reading. Guide students into how to set a purpose by telling them the following three things.

1. You can read to perform a task, such as specific directions. For example, read until you meet the main character in the story.

2. You can read for pure enjoyment.

3. You can read to learn new information. For example, if you wanted to learn about bears.

After students decide what their purpose for reading is then they can select a text. After the text is selected you can show students before, during, and after reading strategies that match their purpose for reading. Remind students that as they read they should refer back to their main purpose.

Here are a few tips, questions, and statements students should be thinking about before, during, and after reading a text.

What do I already know about the topic?

What can I expect to learn?

Skim the book to find out what I will be learning.

Pause during reading to reflect upon what was just read. Try to link it to something you already know.

Do I understand what I just read?

Place a sticky note next to any question, unfamiliar word, or comment you would like to share in the text.

Reread any passages that confused you.

Go over your sticky notes.

Summarize in your head what you have just read.

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Get Students Motivated to Read by Setting a Purpose

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Setting a purpose for reading helps keep students focused and engaged while reading, and gives them a mission so that comprehension can be reinforced. Reading with purpose motivates children and helps students who tend to rush, take their time reading so they won't skip over key elements in the text.

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Encouraging students to create mental images of their reading helps deepen comprehension. Students can be prompted to draw pictures or describe scenes as they read.

Keene, E. O., & Zimmerman, S. (1997). Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop.

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Abbie Regier

"What If..." - Write about or discuss how the story would differ if the characters were something other than they are: another gender or race, a different age, or social class.

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103 Things to Do Before, During, or After Reading

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This article offers a collection of interactive activities that help kids become more involved in the stories that they read.

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Whole class discussion (ex. What did you think of the passage? How did it make you feel? Who was your favorite character & why? Who was your least favorite character?) -Kimberly F. 

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Whole class discussion (ex. What did you think of the passage? How did it make you feel? Who was your favorite character & why? Who was your least favorite character?) -Kimberly F. 

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Jennica French

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651178ed1fc7ef19cc1afcf7_3 Example of compare and contrast

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Problem Solving Map template - Student activities and graphic organizers, create engaging activities - Book Creator app

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Graphic Organizers : Students will get a graphic organizer to fill in ith words and pictures.

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Compare and Contrast- Let's Compare- Fruit Organizer

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Compare and Contrast- Let's Compare- Fruit Organizer

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Abbie Regier

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Let���s Compare (Apples & Oranges): Graphic Organizer

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Comparing and contrasting books and ideas is an important skill. This handy graphic organizer encourages kids to note how two books are different and how they are similar.

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(Niyay Z. Rotgers Rivera)

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This Problem-solving map is great for grades 3-5!

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Description graphic organizers help students determine key points that correlate with the topic of the graphic organizer. -Owens and Calhoun

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Sequence of events

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Cause and Effect- The cause is the reason something happens, while the effect is the result of what happened.

Signal Words- because, as a result, leads to, due to, therefore.

Itzel, Alondra, Zully

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Sequence of events

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Main Topic and Key Details

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Compare and Contrast

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Free Venn Diagram Graphic Organizer Template

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Have your students use our free Venn diagram graphic organizer template to organize their ideas.

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Abbie Regier

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Essay Planning

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Information, Sources, Page

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Compare and Contrast Graphic Organizers

Abbie Regier

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Compare and contrast graphic organizers | TPT

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Help your students classify ideas and communicate more effectively with these free graphic organizer templates, available for download. They can be used to structure writing projects and help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research, and brainstorming.

Printable Graphic Organizers

Select a blank graphic organizer from the following categories depending on your curriculum needs.

Sequence of Events

Main Topic and Key Details

Compare/Contrast

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Free Downloadable Graphic Organizer Templates

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Use these free graphic organizer templates to help your students communicate more effectively by classifying ideas, structuring writing projects, and more.

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Spider Map graphic organizer