1. Know your students interests.  It helps to have interesting reading material to hook children into reading.  If you know what your students are interested in and provide books on topics they like, it is easier to hook them in. Making connections for students can help to broaden their interest.
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3. Identify a learning intention that students in a group need to develop.  Some common learning intentions include, We are learning to:
   

• Make connections to our prior knowledge
• Predict what will happen next
• Break down new words
• use the contents page/index
• Create a picture in our heads from the story
• Plot the excitement level in a story
• find the plot
  
• Find problems and solutions
• Identify moral or message
• Identify and describe main character
• Identify the setting (could be time or place)
  
• Find facts
• Put facts into our own words
• Compare two ...
• Compare and contrast ...
  
• Organise information
• Scan for information
  
• Make inferences from the text

4. Choose a book, poem, story, webpage, newspaper article, or journal that suits your learning intention, is of interest to the students and is either at or below their reading (decoding) level.

5. Read the text you have chosen! If it makes you yawn, discard it!  The text must be interesting!

6.  Read the text again and this time add questions for the students to answer as they read.  I usually break the text down into paragraphs.  Students should always have a purpose for reading when working with the teacher.  Ensure the questions are all related to the learning intention.  Identify difficult vocabulary to teach the children before reading.

7.   Create an activity based on the text that meets the learning intention.  For example if your learning intention is to organise information, then you can create a concept map as you are reading through the text.  If you are plotting the excitement level you could create a graph and tie this into maths.

8.  Have a follow up independent activity that is similar to what you have done with the students.  If you have helped students create a concept map you could leave a few pages at end of book for them to go off and create own concept map with info, or add to the one that has already been made.  Ensure it is relevant to the learning intention.

9. Ensure each child has their own copy of the text, and materials for follow-up activity.  Ensure you have a scrapbook with text name and learning intention in it ready to start the group reading activity as you read.  Write the vocabulary words into the scrapbook to introduce to students before you start reading.

Now you are ready to teach comprehension. 

1. Introduce text and make connections to students interests and prior knowledge.
2. Share vocabulary words.  you might give this as a pre-activity where the children are given the words and the meanings and have to match them up using a dictionary to check if they are right.  Ensure everyone can read and understands the words.
   
3. Share learning intention.
4. Get children to read looking for answer to each question
5. Record their answers in the scrapbook.
6. Half way through book check everyone knows what we are learning.
7. At end of book ask if we have been successful today.  Get students to give examples.  (this is the most important step!!!  Your students love sharing what they have learnt today and are so proud of themselves, this step will reduce truancy and increase students interest in reading).
8. Send students off to complete activity independently - give them their scrapbook (learning book, sharing book, helping book) and let them sit together to complete activity while you work with next group.
9. Mark their work that night decide if students have got learning intention or need more practise with different text.
10. Put on wall if appropriate.