3 Foundational Reading Strategies That Improve Comprehension

In this class students will learn and practice three effective strategies designed to improve their reading comprehension—envisioning, predicting, and inferring. I will introduce and model each of these strategies and then give students opportunities to practice. During my 28-year career as an elementary school teacher, I have emphasized to my students that the single most important academic skill we want to develop is reading comprehension. The ability to understand our reading on a deep level is the gift that keeps on giving and helps us in every subject area. Incorporating these strategies into their reading on a consistent basis will help students become more confident, more enthusiastic, more successful readers.