What can teachers do to support comprehension of informational texts?
Text structures play an important role in comprehending informational text. When you teach text structures using engaging mentor texts, graphic organizers, along with interactive think-alouds and partner or group practice, your students’ comprehension will soar.
What are some strategies we can use to support comprehension?
The main strategies that are generally viewed as supporting comprehension are:
- Activating and using prior knowledge to make connections.
- Predicting.
- Visualising.
- Asking and answering questions.
- Summarising.
- Synthesising.
- Critical thinking.
What strategies do you teach your students to use when reading informational texts?
Give them a Foundation of Targeted Strategies for Text Comprehension
- Self-monitoring for comprehension.
- Retelling.
- Vocabulary development.
- Asking & answering questions based on key details in the text.
- Identification of main idea and/or central message in the text.
- Analyzing characters and their traits.
What are informational strategies?
Informational strategies are aimed at changing knowledge, awareness, norms, and attitudes. Structural strategies are aimed at changing the circumstances in which behavioural decisions are made.
What are the Super Six comprehension strategies?
The Super Six framework focuses on working with making connections, monitoring, visualising, inferring/predicting, questioning and summarising.
What are the four reading comprehension strategies?
​General Strategies for Reading Comprehension
- Using Prior Knowledge/Previewing.
- Predicting.
- Identifying the Main Idea and Summarization.
- Questioning.
- Making Inferences.
- Visualizing.
- Story Maps.
- Retelling.