Comprehension Strategies

The ultimate goal of teaching reading comprehension is to have your students become independent learners. To do this they must be able to read the assigned books and comprehend the meaning with minimal help. There are several reading strategies that you can employ to help your students obtain this goal.

Learning Objectives

After completing this section you will be able to:

• Explain how the Gradual Release Model is used with specific compression strategies to enable students to become independent readers
• Develop multisensory instruction to teach story structure and motivate learning