Tag: comprehension

Colorful and eye-catching reading comprehension strategy posters and handouts that will help readers connect and understand what they are reading. When using these strategies, students will be actively engaged in and analyzing the written text. They will activate prior knowledge, seek to understand the author’s purpose, ask questions (about characters, setting and events), predicting, visualize, infer, summarize, compare and contrast and question.

This resource includes:

• – 8 Full-page individual strategy posters
• – 8 Half-page strategy handouts
• – 1 Full-page poster/handout that includes all 8 strategies

Strategies included:

• – Author’s purpose – PIE (Persuade, Inform, Entertain
• – SUMmarize it
• – Questioning (4 questions that encompass characters, setting, events as well as asking themselves questions about their own thoughts)
• – Compare and Contrast
• – Connecting (text to self ; text to text ; text to world)
• – Visualizing (create images of events and actions)
• – Predicting
• – Inference (Looking for clues in the text to discover what is not directly stated)