The teaching of reading is of the utmost importance in the primary grades.  Not only do students need to be able to decode words and develop fluency, but it is even more important that they are understanding what they read.  It has been my goal this year to teach my students strategies to help them comprehend what they are reading.

Monitor/Clarify

Why do we Monitor/Clarify?

• To make sense of our reading

When do we Monitor/Clarify?

• When the reading no longer makes sense
• When we are stuck on a word’s meaning

How do we Monitor/Clarify?

• Reread all around the word or area in question.  Make substitutions, use picture clues
• Use your schema
• Study the structure
• Predict, infer, make connections, ask questions, summarize

We have focused so far this year on 4 main strategies:

Making Connections

Asking Questions

Visualizing

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