Reading Comprehension

Interactive Resources for Reading Comprehension
Building Better Reading Skills Online
We all know that reading comprehension is a valuable, life-long skill, but how does one actually teach it? How can we help reluctant readers develop the self-confidence needed to tackle tough reading passages? What can we do to make the reading process enjoyable, when reading itself is often a solitary activity? This lens will attempt to answer those questions through an approach to reading that utilizes online, interactive reading sites. Is that the only way to get kids to read? Absolutely n...

Edupress Reading Comprehension Practice Cards to the Rescue
Do Your Students Need to Improve and Practice their Reading Comprehension Skills?
A number of my customers have students who are behind in their reading comprehension. To make matters more interesting, the students in their classes are not all at the same reading level, and some may be good at finding the main idea, but may not be so good at drawing conclusions, making inferences, discerning the author's purpose, picking up on context clues, or telling fact from opinion. Other students may be apt in following directions and remembering details, but they can't find the main...

The importance of improving the reading comprehension of high school and middle school students
Why is reading comprehension important?
Are you a middle school or high school teacher or maybe a home school teacher? If so, then you know that good reading comprehension skills in middle school and high school are extremely important! Without good reading comprehension skills, student academic success is difficult. What a middle school student learns, understands and synthesizes in the classroom sets them up for the academic demands in high school. Why is this so important? Testing, testing, testing. Students need to be able to r...

Metacognitive Strategies for Reading Comprehension
My child can read! Why is she struggling?
Some children learn to decode, to read fluently, and even answer basic recall questions, but beyond the level of recall, their comprehension breaks down. Why? In many cases, it is because they lack strategies -- not word attack skills, but metacognitive strategies. As parents and teachers -- as proficient readers -- we use strategies that are so ingrained in us that we often don't give them conscious thought. Some of us picked them up intuitively as we were growing up, but many of our student...