Questioning activities for reading

How do you develop Kindergarten reading comprehension? Here are some tips and a look at these purposeful Kindergarten response worksheets.

We have the most fun and the deepest reading comprehension conversations when we are using these differentiated learning cubes! Actually, we use them in lots of different ways in the classroom, but reading comprehension questions

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Engaging ELA lesson idea for elementary to practice the reading comprehension strategy of questioning. Tips and strategies for ELA.

Strategies for teaching WH questions to hyperlexic kids (by playing to their strengths)

Today I’m starting a brand new series right here on the blog…because…I think we could ALL benefit. It’s all about the area of reading comprehension and, as educators, we are often really good at providing lots of practice in this area, but, in honesty, it’s a really difficult area to teach. What often happens is […]

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Asking and answering questions is one of the key strategies to teach students when teaching them how to comprehend what they are reading. It's in both the literature and informational text standards for Common Core, so it must be important! Asking questions allows the reader to have an open dialogue with the author which leads them deeper into the text. I look at it as sending students on a quest through the text. Asking questions and searching for answers takes students through the text in…

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite. Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading

Reading comprehension activities that are engaging to students are a must! These reading comprehension games and fun reading comprehension activities to improve reading comprehension will help your students learn reading comprehension skills while having fun at the same time. Try these 6 engaging reading comprehension activities in your classroom today to get your students to understand the texts they read.