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Engaging Nonfiction Readers

In Salt Lake City, teacher Margaret Barnes uses a framework called CORI (Concept Oriented Reading Instruction) to teach reading comprehension skills to second and third graders.

Visualize It!: Improving Comprehension through Visualizing Comparisons (Virtual Tour)

As a comprehension strategy, visualizing helps students understand the true size of new objects by comparing them to familiar objects.

Using Think-Pair-Share in the Classroom

Using think-pair-share in the classroom creates a collaborative learning environment where students work together to solve a problem or answer a question about an assigned reading.

Think Alouds: Modeling Ways to Think About Text (Virtual Tour)

A teacher think aloud is an effective technique to model how to use comprehension strategies before, during, and after reading.

Reading Lesson - Sequencing

This teacher presents an outline of a reading workshop lesson that teaches the strategy of sequencing for grades K-1.

Teaching Strategies for Using Summarizing for Comprehension : Reading Lessons

Summarizing is a student’s ability to be able to identify the main idea and supporting details with a particular work.

Sequencing Lesson

A second grade class engages in a reading lesson about sequencing.

Grade K 2: Summarization Strategies

Learn about K-2 summarization strategies including the Summary Glove, the Retelling Rope, and the Group Retelling Game.

Greedy Cat: Retelling a Story Sequence to Build Comprehension

Students build skills essential to reading comprehension by retelling a story. Visit LitDiet.org to view to view the full lesson plan.

Powerful Predictions: A Pre-Reading Strategy to Build Knowledge and Support Comprehension

Students use a list of given words to make predictions about a book.

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