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Marianne Rice; Kausalai Wijekumar; Kacee Lambright; Ashley Stack – Reading Teacher, 2024
Making inferences is essential to comprehending text. Teachers can ask inferential questions, model their thinking, and teach specific strategies to support upper elementary students in making inferences while reading.
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Elementary School Students, Inferences, Reading Comprehension
Slashinsky, Kathleen – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2022
Memorizing spelling lists and looking up words in the dictionary and then using the words in a sentence is a traditional strategy used for vocabulary acquisition. However, because the students do not learn words in context, their application of knowledge and understanding from this method is uneven. Because picture books may be used for pleasure…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Vocabulary Development, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Maguet, McKenna Louise; Morrison, Timothy G.; Wilcox, Brad; Billen, Monica T. – Reading Psychology, 2021
Reading comprehension is the goal of reading, and making inferences is vital. Authors usually expect readers to make multiple types of inferences, including anaphoric, background knowledge, predictive, and retrospective. Common core assessments include all of these, yet instructional materials focus mostly on only one type, retrospective. This…
Descriptors: Children, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness
Richel, Maureen K. – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2018
This topic brief is one in a series on personalized learning prepared for Conversations with Innovators, 2018. Intentionally and thoughtfully designed close reading lessons that select the just right, short, manageable, complex text worth revisiting and rereading at least three times for literal, structural, and inferred meaning followed by a…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Writing (Composition), Individualized Instruction, Reading Instruction
Nebraska Department of Education, 2019
The WWC practice guide "Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade" presents a set of evidence-based practices that teachers and other educators can use to successfully teach reading comprehension to young readers. The guide, developed by a panel of experts, presents a set of evidence-based practices that teachers…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement, Primary Education, Elementary School Students
Wasik, Barbara A.; Jacobi-Vessels, Jill L. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
Play is an important activity in young children's lives. It is how children explore their world and build knowledge. Although free play, which is play that is totally child directed, contributes to children's learning, self-regulation and motivation, adults' participation in children's play is critical in their development, especially their…
Descriptors: Child Language, Play, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Reading Instruction
Teaching Middle School Students with Learning Disabilities to Comprehend Text Using Self-Questioning
Joseph, Laurice M.; Ross, Kelsey M. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2018
Middle school students with learning disabilities often struggle to gain meaning from text. Engaging in self-questioning is an effective strategy for comprehending text, however, middle school students with learning disabilities often do not naturally engage in self-questioning before, during, or after reading. These students may also have…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Middle School Students, Learning Disabilities, Reading Comprehension
Boelé, Amy L. – Reading Teacher, 2016
Posing text-dependent questions is crucial for facilitating students' comprehension of the text. However, text-dependent questions should not merely ask students to reflect the author's literal or even inferential meaning. The author's message is the starting place for comprehension, rather than the end goal or object of comprehension. The text…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship, Reading Strategies
Ness, Molly – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The purpose of this article is to explore the use of picture walks in narrative and informational text as a method to encourage question generation. This article overviews the instructional benefits of having students generate their own questions before, during, and after reading. Featured are two classrooms where students pose questions through…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Nonfiction, Narration, Teaching Methods
Nebraska Department of Education, 2021
Academic language includes three skills: (1) use of inferential language (communicating about ideas across contexts); (2) use of narrative language (clearly describing a series of events); and (3) understanding a range of academic vocabulary and grammatical structures. These skills help students better comprehend academic texts both across…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Language Skills, Kindergarten, Reading Skills
Ness, Molly – Reading Teacher, 2016
When literacy instruction is driven by student-generated questions, students are able to dive deeper into text. This article explores the cognitive and motivational benefits of question generation to foster reading comprehension. The author presents classroom vignettes where students become inquisitive readers by posing their own questions. As…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Inquiry, Literacy, Questioning Techniques
Degener, Sophie; Berne, Jennifer – Reading Teacher, 2017
Intermediate-grade teachers often express concerns about meeting the Common Core State Standards for Reading, primarily because of the emphasis on deep understanding of complex texts. No matter how difficult the text, if teachers demand little of the reading, student meaning making is not challenged. This article offers a tool for teachers to…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Difficulty Level, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
Lemov, Doug – Educational Leadership, 2017
Recent research shows that reading comprehension relies heavily on prior knowledge. Far more than generic "reading skills" like drawing inferences, making predictions, and knowing the function of subheads, how well students learn from a nonfiction text depends on their background knowledge of the text's subject matter. And in a cyclical…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Nonfiction, Fiction, Prior Learning
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2012
Dozens of teachers and literacy specialists from across the country hunkered down in Baltimore at round tables, with laptops, pens, and paper, intent on rewriting the collections that wield tremendous influence over the way millions of U.S. children learn literacy skills: the big-name basal readers. Hailing from 18 school districts in 11 states,…
Descriptors: Basal Reading, Literacy, Reading Instruction, State Standards
Dougherty Stahl, Katherine A. – Reading Teacher, 2014
Inference generation makes a strong, unique contribution to reading comprehension. Young children engage in many of the same inference generation processes as sophisticated readers. This article discusses instructional practices that can be used in prekindergarten through grade two to help children think beyond the words of the text. Suggestions…
Descriptors: Inferences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction, Young Children