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    The document discusses key reading comprehension strategies that teachers should teach students. It defines reading comprehension as the ability to understand, process, and recall what was read. Three important comprehension strategies highlighted are activating prior knowledge, generating and asking questions while reading, and making inferences. The document emphasizes that teaching students comprehension strategies provides them with tools to become more thoughtful readers and helps them interact with and construct meaning from texts. It also recommends Adrienne Gear's "Reading Power" resource for teaching the five reading powers of connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.

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    The document discusses key reading comprehension strategies that teachers should teach students. It defines reading comprehension as the ability to understand, process, and recall what was read. Three important comprehension strategies highlighted are activating prior knowledge, generating and asking questions while reading, and making inferences. The document emphasizes that teaching students comprehension strategies provides them with tools to become more thoughtful readers and helps them interact with and construct meaning from texts. It also recommends Adrienne Gear's "Reading Power" resource for teaching the five reading powers of connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.

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    The document discusses key reading comprehension strategies that teachers should teach students. It defines reading comprehension as the ability to understand, process, and recall what was read. Three important comprehension strategies highlighted are activating prior knowledge, generating and asking questions while reading, and making inferences. The document emphasizes that teaching students comprehension strategies provides them with tools to become more thoughtful readers and helps them interact with and construct meaning from texts. It also recommends Adrienne Gear's "Reading Power" resource for teaching the five reading powers of connect, question, visualize, infer, and transform.

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    References

    Gear, A (2019). Reading Power. Retrieved


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    ading-power.

    Rutzler, S. (2017). Importance of Reading


    "When students are Comprehension. Retrieved from

    actively reading and


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    applying multiple CONTACT US
    Texas Education Agency (2002). Key
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    "There is a huge
    Here are a few key comprehension
    What is Reading Comprehension? difference in “doing strategies to teach students to become
    reading” and “teaching successful readers:

    Reading Comprehension is the ability to reading”. No matter 1) Activating prior knowledge:


    "read, understand, process, and recall what Students use their background knowledge
    what grade we teach, we and experiences to connect to the text.
    was just read" (Rutzler, 2017). Decoding the
    text into words is only one part of reading. are all responsible for Research has shown that this is "critical in
    determining their ability to comprehend
    Good readers use comprehension to teaching reading to our what they read" (Texas Education Agency,
    understand what it is that they are
    reading. This allows students to be students.. " 2002).

    "engaged, active, and purposeful readers -Adrienne Gear 2) Generating and Asking Questions
    when they have reading comprehension Good readers are asking themselves
    strategies on hand". questions while they read. By asking
    questions, it helps students "integrate
    information, identify main ideas, and
    Why is Reading Comprehension
    summarize information." (Texas Education
    important to teach? Agency, 2002).

    Reading Comprehension is important to 3) Making Inferences


    teach because it "helps readers think - This strategy helps students to "evaluate or
    interact with the text and construct draw conclusions from information in
    meaning while they read" (Gear, 2019). a text". This is what is often referred to as
    Teaching students reading comprehension "reading between the lines" and allows
    strategies "provides students with the tools students to pick up on the clues left by the
    to become more thoughtful and meaningful author.
    readers as well as how to become “meta-
    cognitive” or aware of their thinking Adrienne Gears Reading Powers
    while they read" (Gear, 2019). Teachers
    always include reading time during the A great resource to teach reading
    school day but often teachers neglect to comprehension strategies is Adrienne
    Gears "Reading Power" book which helps
    TEACH reading.
    educators teach and practice the five
    Reading Powers which are: connect,
    question, visualize, infer and transform.
    (Gear, 2019).

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