What every teacher should know
Reading 101: A Guide to Teaching Reading and Writing
Reading 101 is a collaboration with the Center for Effective Reading Instruction and The International Dyslexia Association.
Comprehension: Assignments
For a deeper understanding of reading comprehension, take a look at the following articles and watch our webcast, Make Reading Count, and the videos below.
Read
The Common Core puts new emphasis on comprehending expository text. The three articles here offer strategies for helping students deconstruct and understand expository text.
- Reading (and Scaffolding) Expository Texts
- Guiding Students Through Expository Text with Text Feature Walks
- How to Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Reading Comprehension
Watch
Watch our webcast Make Reading Count, featuring literacy experts Isabel Beck, Nanci Bell, and Sharon Walpole. They discuss the essential components for developing good reading comprehension skills in young children, identify some of the potential stumbling blocks, and offer research-based comprehension strategies teachers can use in the classroom to teach all children to become better readers. Discussion questions are included with the webcast.
Comprehension Instruction
In this excerpt from our webcast, Make Reading Count, panel of reading experts discuss the building blocks of comprehension, what good instruction looks like, assessing comprehension in kids with dyslexia, and more.
Summary Map: Scaffolding Summary Writing
Watch students learn how to summarize narrative text. (Published with permission from the Balanced Literacy Diet)
Letter of completion
Reading Rockets does not offer CEUs for this self-study course. After successfully answering the post-test questions, you'll be able to download a Letter of Completion.
Reading 101 is a collaboration with the Center for Effective Reading Instruction and The International Dyslexia Association.
