Comprehension:

21 Anchor Charts That Teach Reading Comprehension

- These 21 anchor charts teach comprehension by focusing on building a bridge
between learning and accountability.
- Reading comprehension is a very complex skill to teach and these 21 anchor charts
will help.
Key Comprehension Strategies to Teach:
- Activating and Using Background Knowledge
o Readers use this strategy to activate their prior knowledge and use that
knowledge to help them understand.
- Generating and Asking Questions
o Students will use this strategy to ask themselves questions throughout the
reading of the text.
- Making Inferences
o This strategy requires readers to evaluate or draw conclusions from
information in a text.
- Predicting
o This strategy involves students taking information from the text and making
predictions.
- Summarizing
o The ability for a student to pull information from a text together and explain it
in their own words.
- Visualizing
o This is when students can mentally create an image from what they read in a
text and how they understand it.
- Comprehension Monitoring
o This strategy involves the readers knowing when they have the ability to
understand what they read, when they do not understand, and how to improve
their understanding.
Metacognition:
- This is where students think about their thinking.
- Students can have control over their reading by adjusting to the difficulty level of the
text or fix any comprehension problems they have.

Kahoot is a great way to get the students engage in their learning

- Kahoot creates a fun environment for students to participate in and learn from.
- I have done this in my practicum classes and the students love it.
Determining the Main idea
- 8 reading passages designed for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.
- This strategy is designed to help students think for themselves and determine the
main idea of the passages.
Just Print Reading Comprehension 4-5th
- This resource includes text dependent activities.
- Simple print reading comprehension sets.
Close Reading
- This is a very creative literacy station that involves close reading tools;
- Highlighter: to highlight words or phrases that are important to the text.
- Pencil: to mark the text and underline important details.
- Magnifying glass: to search for evidence within the text.
- Sticky notes: to record ideas or notes about the text.
Reading Comprehension Strategy Checklist:
- This resource is very beneficial for readers.
- Readers who use these strategies will have high comprehension skills.
Think-Pair-Share
- This is a great activity for students to work together to form a solution to a problem.
- This is great because it allows the students to think for themselves and share ideas.
Teaching Metalinguistic Awareness and Reading Comprehension with Riddles:
- Riddles are a perfect medium for learning how to manipulate language for many
reasons.
- Riddles help stimulate students metalinguistic awareness.
Elements of a Story 4th Grade
- This resource allows students to follow along a story with the computer and answer
questions throughout the story to comprehend it.
For Parents:
- This resource is just to show parents how important of a role they play early in their
childrens lives.
- Parents have to give their kids the basic skills and work on those building blocks.
Jigsaw
- This strategy is very helpful in the classroom.
- In small groups, students read a passage and then talk about what they read with their
group.
- Then they share the information with the whole class about what they have
understood during their reading.
Compare, Contrast, Comprehend: Using Compare-Contrast Text Structures
- Students will be taught to identify compare-contrast text structure and use it to
support their comprehension.
Determining the Main Idea: Differentiated Task Cards
- Students have differentiated task cards that help them determine the main idea.