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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.
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.
Important Pre-Reading Strategies to Engage and Prepare Students
A pre-reading strategy is a great way to activate prior knowledge and prepare students for reading. Pre-reading strategies build background knowledge and encourage students like English language learners and struggling readers to comprehend a particular text.
Before students begin reading, they can activate prior knowledge, set a purpose, review key elements, see the big picture, practice note-taking, and get a general understanding of the text by using a graphic organizer or other pre-reading resource.
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.
Important Benefits of Reading Aloud for Reading Comprehension
Reading aloud will produce fluent reading in students and increase their reading comprehension. Additionally, it helps students with vocabulary and literacy development.
The benefits of reading aloud are many, but seeing students excited about reading makes read alouds an easy choice.
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