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Reading Comprehension Strategy | Reading Ahead to Find Context | Examples Given
Poor readers lack knowledge of reading strategies that can help them comprehend text. In this lesson, we look at finding context clues in the paragraph and how reading ahead can help clarify the meaning of unknown words and concepts and...
The Learning Depot
Finding Implied Main Idea | Reading Strategies for Better Comprehension Skills
The implied main idea is not clearly stated in any one sentence in the passage, but it is always there. You just can't take your finger and point at it or take a highlighter and highlight it. The implied main idea comes together in your...
Curated Video
#1 How to Create a KWL Chart: Foundations of Reading Comprehension #messireadingchallenge
In this video, I teach you how to create a KWL chart to help you understand what you are reading. I explain the purpose of KWL charts, give two examples, and even give you a practice activity to challenge you! I even include a FREE...
Lit2Go
The Bald Man and the Fly
How should you deal with an enemy? Aesop's "The Bald Man and the Fly" presents one method that ends up hurting the victim even more than the perpetrator. Before, during, and after listening to an audio version of the story, learners...
TED-Ed
Why Should You Read James Joyce's "Ulysses"?
What is Bloomsday? Why would thousands travel to Dublin on this day to visit sites depicted in a novel that is ridiculously hard to read? Why even bother with reading such a book? Find out by viewing a short video that suggests the...
Townsend Press
Relationships I
Transition words can be a very important addition to any writer's toolbox. Learn more about addition words and time words, and how they can enhance the organization of any writing passage, with an informative video about reading...
Townsend Press
Relationships II
Cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, illustration and example -- your class has undoubtedly seen these essay structures before. But how are they related? Watch a reading video about the ways relationships between...
Townsend Press
Argument
Form well-crafted arguments with the help of an educational video. Fourth graders study various examples of persuasive arguments, including thesis statements and cartoons, and observe the ways that supporting details can enhance the...
Townsend Press
Inferences
A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...
Townsend Press
Implied Main Ideas
Skilled readers can find the main idea of an informative passage without finding it directly stated. A reading video prompts elementary learners to examine supporting details in several examples, and to infer what the main idea...
Townsend Press
Main Ideas
Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.
Curriculum Associates
Comprehensive Assessment of Reading Strategies II
Assess your kids' reading skills with a straightforward reading comprehension exercise. Pupils read a story and answer 12 multiple choice questions about the story. Each question is labeled with one of 12 reading strategies, such as...