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Post Reading Activities for Deeper Understanding
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Post Reading Activities for Deeper Understanding

Post-reading activities encourage students to gain a deeper understanding through graphic organizers, news report, exit slips, class discussion, role play, and student responses to questions crafted to encourage students to dig deeper. These after-reading activities get students to analyze the different concepts in a story, including character analysis and main idea exploration of the reading.

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During Reading Strategies to Assess Student Understanding
Reading Comprehension, English Language Arts, Literacy Teaching Heart & Soul . Reading Comprehension, English Language Arts, Literacy Teaching Heart & Soul .

During Reading Strategies to Assess Student Understanding

During reading strategies are helpful comprehension strategies to assess student understanding during a reading lesson. These reading strategies provide students with opportunities to practice reading comprehension, using a graphic organizer, note-taking, and critical thinking skills.

Reading strategies like KWL, Reciprocal Teaching, and Story Maps help students organize information as they read.

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Effective Reading Comprehension Question Ideas
English Language Arts, Literacy, Reading Comprehension Teaching Heart & Soul . English Language Arts, Literacy, Reading Comprehension Teaching Heart & Soul .

Effective Reading Comprehension Question Ideas

A reading comprehension question will encourage students to learn more about the main idea in a story. It will encourage students to have class discussions about the comprehension questions, such as inference questions and questions requiring text evidence, which will help with understanding. Main idea questions that require students to write about what happened will keep the reader engaged.

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