5 Tips For Teaching Reading Comprehension

Students learn all the basics of reading when they start school; letters, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, etc. We spend a lot of time instructing them on HOW to read, but how much do we invest in WHAT they read. 

If you're a teacher and would like a few more tips on how to get students to comprehend what they're reading, Nannette Richford has 5 Tips that just might help:

1. Provide background information
2. Encourage students to predict events
3. Create Interest
4. KWL charts
5. Summarize and review

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