Teaching reading skills

Reading fluency first grade activities and ideas for helping kids learn how to read in kindergarten and building the skills necessary to achieve mastery

Diagnostic and formative. What steps students should progress through. They aren't necessarily linear.

WHY TEACH STUDENTS TO FIND THE MAIN IDEA? Being able to find the main idea of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill for upper elementary students (3rd-5th grade). “Learning how to understand

Use these Big 5 reading skills in your reading instruction to help struggling readers learn how to read and use reading strategies. Use this checklist to improve comprehension, fluency, phonics, phonemic awareness, and vocabulary in the kindergarten, first, 2nd, and 3rd grade classroom or for homeschool. Includes a free step ladder for teaching elementary reading intervention As well as fun ideas and activities for kids in each area to use for guided reading or assessment. #teaching…

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

Freebie! One of the keys to teaching reading comprehension is showing kids how proficient readers think about text. Teachers have to find a way to make their thinking visible. One way is with graphic organizers.

Step by step directions for teachers explaining how to teach students to build reading stamina in order to become independent readers.

It can be very overwhelming, especially for my struggling readers, to focus on using multiple reading comprehension strategies with a piece of text. For this reason, I always take time in at least the first

Fluency tends to be a commonly overlooked skill, but you can change that by learning about strategies for teaching fluency with your elementary students!

For years, I have witnessed, over and over again, the value of using pictures to teach reading skills in my classroom.