Reading+Strategies+Web+Links+and+Professional+Resources

Websites
Adrienne Gear Fiction and Nonfiction Reading Strategies.

Into the Book

Comprehension Strategy Instruction in Core Reading Programs (IRA Reading Research Quartlery. April, May, June, 2009)

Paraphrasing: An Effective Comprehension Strategy. This link also includes a lesson from ReadWriteThink. (IRA The Reading Teacher. September, 2009)

Making Connections (2004)

Fluency: Reader's Theater

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[|Providing Powerful Comprehension Instruction] (October 2009). //Reading Today//, //27//(2), 17.)

Professional Resources
**//Comprehension Shouldn't Be Silent: From Strategy Instruction toStudent Independence//** Michelle J. Kelley and Niki Clausen-Grace (Note: This professional resource was given to all grade 5 teachers in GSSD)

//**Guided Comprehension in Grade 3 - 8**// Maureen McLaughlin and Mary Beth Allen

Overview, Lesson Plans, Webinars and Podcasts (free)
 * //Reading Comprehension Overview//**: International Reading Association website

//**Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grade 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities**// Jeff Zwiers

//**Quality Comprehension: A Strategic Model of Reading Instruction Using Read Along Guides, Grade 3-6**// Sandra K. Athans and Denise Ashe Devine

//**Mosaic of Thought: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction**// Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann

//**The Comprehension Toolkit: Grade 3-6**// Stephanie Harvey and Ann Goudvis

//**[|Reciprocal Teaching at Work (K - 12): Powerful Strategies and Lessons for Improving Reading Comprehension]**// Lori D. Oczkus

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Comprehension Strategies The Busy Teachers Cafe: Comprehension Strategies  - includes making connections, visualizing, questionning, inferring, determining importance and synthesizing. The Reading Lady: Comprehension Strategy Posters (From Prairie Valley School Division. This link has an elementary list and a middle years list of reading strategies.) Into the Book  is a reading comprehension resource for students and teachers in K-4 using eight strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Downloads, songs and videos are avaiable.
 * Variety of web links on reading comprehension: **
 * Strategy Posters
 * The Reading Lady on [|Reading Comprehension]