Teach Comprehension Strategies Teach students reading
comprehension strategies using carefully selected texts. Many
young readers learn to decode text but do not construct meaning
with text. It’s important to teach beginning readers the
strategies and mental actions that good readers use to construct
meaning from text. Strategies such as activating prior knowledge
or predicting, questioning, visualizing, monitoring, drawing
inferences, and summarizing can be taught one by one or in
combination. These strategies should be taught through explicit
instruction and modeling, opportunities for guided and
independent practice, and a gradual release of responsibility to
apply the practice from teacher to students. When selecting
texts for teaching reading comprehension strategies, teachers
should draw from different genres, paying close attention to
text quality and difficulty level. Selected texts should support
the specific aim of the instruction. Teaching Reading
Comprehension Strategies and Selecting Appropriate