The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing.

The purpose of the video lesson is to explore the reading strategy of summarizing. It gives the rules for summarizing that students can follow. The accompanying handout requires students to practice summarizing with the "Sum It Up" strategy and can be used with any text.

The purpose of the video lesson is to outline effective reading strategies that good readers use. They include: predicting, making connections, visualizing, monitoring your own comprehension, determining importance, making inferences, questioning, summarizing and synthesizing. The accompanying handout is a survey in which students reflect on their use of the reading strategies.

This activity can be used to help find the main idea or keyword from a passage of text. This activity is excellent to develop vocabulary and deepen understanding of the content being examined. 

A gathering grid can help students organize information for a research report by recording their questions on the left side of the grid and the title of their sources on the top of grid. Then the answers and location of where they're found are filled out in the grid. An example is given.

"Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing."

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Students will develop their summarizing skills while learning about local history. They will learn to consider audience while selecting topics, conducting research and interviews, and writing historical markers for their town.

Have you ever had a student who reads out loud beautifully, but struggles to understand the meaning behind what they just read?

Science of Reading research has uncovered key insights that help explain this behavior, and can help your students bridge the gap between decoding and comprehension.

Download the free infographic to understand the missing link in reading comprehension and learn how to incorporate comprehension processes practice into your instruction.

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Why students may struggle with language comprehension.
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These short videos (about 5 minutes on average) teach all about how words and reading works!

There are videos for:
*Phonemic awareness
*Syllable types
*Blending words
*Grammar skills
*Vocabulary
*Story elements

I suggest you click "playlists" as well to find playlists for: fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, syllable types, etc.

This is a summarizing tool for any subject area.
TRIMS stands for:
Title
Relationship
Introduction
Main Parts (organization)
Summary

This extensive website offers tons of ELA resources to support the learners in your classroom. Although some of the resources are American, there are lots of gems here. Be sure to check out the instructional strategies tools, mentor sentences, plus lots of other valuable resources.