During Reading Strategies

• Pairs Read - Students take turns reading and being a coach while reading a piece of text.
• Wonder Books - "Wonder Books" are notebooks reserved for wonder and exploration.
• Cloze Procedure - The cloze procedure is used to assess students comprehension knowledge. It gives them an opportunity to read a passage missing words and they enter words they know that will give the sentence and passage meaning.
• Context Clues - Context Clues helps students figure out a word that they don’t know and what it means when reading text.
• Concept Map - The students, working as a team or independently will complete the concept map of story elements.  This will tell the teacher if they are familiar with the different parts of the story,
• Using Post-Its
    - Allows students to take notes in their books as they read. They can then move them to a notebook and have a study guide
    - Allows teachers to write thoughts and comments about groups as she/he move around and help in planning
• Prepare questions ahead of time so that you ask questions on literal (text-explicit), interpretive (text-implicit), critical, and creative levels. By doing this you are scaffolding the information for the students and still allowing them to be part of the higher level questions.
• Reciprocal Teaching is a great strategy to use with students in teams.
• Study Guides - Provide study guides to cover content being studied. 
• Four Types of Questions - Remember to use all 4 types of questions.   
• Double Entry Journal - A Double Entry Journal is an excellent strategy to help students relate to what they read.
• Purpose of Reading - Give the student a purpose for reading. For example you could have them read for story elements such as setting, characters, plot and or ending of the story, or main idea of the passage.
• Check Comprehension - Stop a student at various times when he/she is reading to check for comprehension.  One way to do this is to have them write a sentence about what the student has read at the end of each page read.

Strategies to be used in more than one area:

• Comparing and Contrasting - While reading the passage, have the students look at the compare and contrast information that they wrote prior to reading the text.