Comprehension Strategies for Middle Grade Learners

Acknowledgments

Introduction
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Section One: Checking for Understanding

Clink and Clunk

Cued Retelling

Discussion

Games

Get the Gist

Interactive Read-Alouds

Page and Paragraph

Paraphrasing/Summarizing

Problem of the Week (PoW)

Retelling

Section Two: Fostering Cooperative Learning

Circle-Seat-Center

Classwide Peer Tutoring (CWP)

Group Investigation

Jigsaw

Learning Together

Partner Prediction

Reciprocal Teaching

Silent With Support

Skit Performance

Student Teams—Achievement Division (STAD)

Teams-Games-Tournament

Think-Pair-Share/Think-Pair-Square

Writing Word Problems

Section Three: Connecting to Previous Knowledge

Activate Prior Knowledge

Anticipation Guide

Brainstorming

Directed Reading Activity (DRA)

FLIP

Nonfiction Trade Books

Prediction Log

ReQuest

Story Content Instruction

Section Four: Improving Organization

Character Perspective Charting (CPC)

Expectation Outline

K-W-L (Know–Want to Know–Learned)

Mapping

ORDER

PLAN

Section Five: Promoting Independent Learning

CONCEPT

DISSECT Word Identification Strategy

Narrow and Enlarge the Text

Question-Answer Relationship

Read Three Times

SQ3R

Teaching Vocabulary

Text Lookbacks

Think-Aloud

Vocabulary Notebooks

Section Six: Teaching to Learning Style

Audiotapes

Combined Reading

Creative Dramatics

Draw a Picture

Highlight Text

Journal

Radio Reading

Visual Adjuncts

References