Reading Comprehension at SHS

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Comprehension Strategies
Must also be teaching:
Setting a purpose for reading

Building World Knowledge

Using prior knowledge

Teaching Comprehension Strategies

Questioning

Teaching Vocabulary

Summarising and retelling

Teaching Fluency

Visualising/forming visual representations

Inferring
Monitoring, clarifying, fixing-up
Using text structures and features

Teaching the Reading Process

Teaching Word-solving Strategies
Encouraging Students Metacognition
Allowing for and Encouraging Response to
Reading
Developing Best Habits and Attitudes about
Reading

Thinking aloud