Description
Teaching and motivating your upper elementary students to use reading strategies can be challenging. These Reading Strategies for Upper Elementary Students will help you reinforce your students’ comprehension skills and focus on their understanding.
This Sample Pack of Reading Strategies for Upper Elementary Students includes:
- The pre-Reading Activation Page helps students gather their thoughts, focus their attention, and discover if they need any background knowledge.
- Summarizing Fiction Page helps your students get the framework they need to write amazing summaries.
- Plot Text Structure Page that helps your students determine a fiction text’s plot.
While this Sample of Reading Strategies is perfect for short fiction texts, it is far from complete. My Reading Strategies for Upper Elementary Bundle has EVERYTHING you need to teach, reinforce, and help your students master reading comprehension skills.
The full bundle includes:
- Activation
- This reading strategy encourages readers to predict what they might learn from the text. There are four versions of this novel study activity.
- Inferring
- With this reading strategy, students are asked to infer information in the text or novel that may not be stated literally.
- Monitoring and clarifying
- This novel study activity has students learn to reflect on complex parts of a text by stopping, thinking, and explaining what they are reading.
- Summarizing
- There are two summarizing activities, one for fiction novels and one for non-fiction texts. Both include graphic organizers, paragraph outlines, and anchor papers.
- Problem and solution
- Determining problems and their solutions is a crucial reading strategy. Whether reading nonfiction or fiction, this strategy encourages students to think critically about what they have read.
- Questioning
- In this questioning template, students record their questions while reading. This novel study activity helps students stay engaged in their reading.
- Visualizing
- Visualizing is a wonderful reading strategy because it helps students “see” what they are reading. Visualizing makes reading come alive for students.
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary can make or break a good reader. This vocabulary activity allows students to learn new vocabulary.
- Theme
- This novel study activity teaches students that a novel or book’s theme is different from the main idea or plot. Taught right on the page, this activity will help your students determine their novel’s theme.
- Plot and Main Idea
- If students are not ready for the theme, this activity helps them drill down to the main idea or plot of a text or a fiction book or story.
- Info-Graphics
- Info-graphics or one-pagers are an excellent way for students to show reading comprehension using images rather than writing.
- Reading Response Choice Board
- Need an open-ended, student-driven novel study activity? Print out the Reading Response Choice Board and let your students decide. A choice board is a perfect way to encourage student buy-in.
- Anchor Essays to use as examples
- Infographic and One-Pager examples
- Printable Posters with the reading strategies explained
- Print and Digital Versions
This FREE Reading Comprehension Strategies Tool Kit is only available on my website. It is not available on TPT.
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