Teaching comprehension strategies and skills is needed for learners to become successful readers. While it is important to teach them to all emergent readers, it's extremely important to teach them explicitly to English language learners and struggling readers.

1. Teaching Comprehension Zoila P. Carrion M. Ed M.A. Linguistics Reading Specialist

2. For students to be able to understand what they read, they need to be taught comprehension strategies and skills. While all learners benefit from them, English language learners (ELLs) and struggling readers profit the most from being taught these strategies explicitly. www.mrscarrion.webs.com

3. 7 steps to success Introduce the strategy. Define and explain it. Model it! Do it with your students. Ask them to use the strategy with a partner or in a small group. Ask them to use the strategy on their own. Repeat these steps as often as needed. www.mrscarrion.webs.com

4. The following are the most important metacognitive strategies and skills that all learners need to master in order to become successful readers. Teach them relentlessly! Teach them even if learners don’t have enough language or decoding skills. www.mrscarrion.webs.com

5. Cause and Effect why it happens what happens www.mrscarrion.webs.com

6. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Problem and Solution

7. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Characters and Setting

8. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Story Structure End Middle Beginning

9. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Sequence of Events Next First Then Last

10. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Camping Author’s Purpose inform entertain persuade

11. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Main Idea and Details

12. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Make Predictions ?

13. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Compare and Contrast same different

14. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Inference

15. www.mrscarrion.webs.com Drawing Conclusions

16. Fantasy and Reality www.mrscarrion.webs.com

17. Classify and Categorize www.mrscarrion.webs.com

18. Use Illustrations www.mrscarrion.webs.com

19. Story Structure www.mrscarrion.webs.com character setting plot

20. Sequence www.mrscarrion.webs.com Events happen in a certain order. Last First Next

21. Text Structure www.mrscarrion.webs.com Information is organized in a way that readers can understand and learn from the reading. compare and contrast describe

22. Summarize www.mrscarrion.webs.com Tell in your own words the most important parts of what you read.

23. Retell www.mrscarrion.webs.com Give lots of details about what you read. Setting Sequence of Events Characters

24. Visualize www.mrscarrion.webs.com Create pictures in your mind about what you are reading. Use the text and your own knowledge about the topic to visualize the text.

25. Generate Questions www.mrscarrion.webs.com Ask questions about what you just read. Who? When? What? How? Where? Why?

26. Monitor Comprehension www.mrscarrion.webs.com Ask yourself if what you are reading makes sense. If it does not make sense, re-read it. Use illustrations and other graphics to help you. Oh, I see!

27. Analyze the Text/Plot www.mrscarrion.webs.com Is there a problem? A hypothesis? What is the problem/ hypothesis? How did it happen? Why? Who is doing it? How will they solve the problem?