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Introduction: Reading for Meaning

Reading for Meaning highlights effective strategies to help kids understand—and care about—what they read, the ultimate goal of learning how to read.

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.

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.

Classroom Strategy: List-Group-Label

List-group-label is a vocabulary and comprehension strategy that helps develop categorization skills, build background knowledge, activate critical thinking, and grow vocabulary. Watch list-group-label in action.

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Introduction: Reading for Meaning

Using Think-Pair-Share in the Classroom

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

Reading Lesson - Sequencing

Teaching Strategies for Using Summarizing for Comprehension : Reading Lessons

Sequencing Lesson

Grade K 2: Summarization Strategies

Greedy Cat: Retelling a Story Sequence to Build Comprehension

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

Classroom Strategy: List-Group-Label

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