Comprehension
We need to explicitly teach individual comprehension strategies within the context of purposeful reading and develop students’ awareness of how these strategies are used in increasingly complex combinations as they read more complex texts.
Resources in years 1–4
- Comprehension Strategies: Engaging Learners with Texts from Effective Literacy Practice Years 1 to 4: provides guidance in how to develop the following comprehension strategies when engaging learners with text.
Resources in years 5–8
- Working with Comprehension Strategies Chapter 5: from Teaching Reading Comprehension (Davis, 2007): gives comprehensive guidance for explicit strategy instruction in years 4–8.
- Comprehension Strategies: Engaging Learners with Texts from Effective Literacy Practice in Years 5 to 8: provides guidance in how to refine and apply the following comprehension strategies as students engage with increasingly challenging texts.
