Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS): Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is a peer-tutoring instructional program that supplements the primary reading curriculum. Pairs of students work together on reading activities intended to improve reading accuracy, fluency, and comprehension.
Passage Preview: Listening Previewing enhances reading fluency and comprehension by discussing key vocabulary words and providing an opportunity for students to hear what they will read prior to independent reading. Listening previewing facilitates accurate responding. It is only appropriate for students who have adequate decoding skills but who also make frequent errors while reading or who have adequate reading fluency but struggle with comprehension.
Story Mapping: Story Mapping improves reading comprehension by providing a visual framework and strategy for analyzing, organizing, and remembering story information. It is a multi-component intervention that addresses reading comprehension. although it does not teach comprehension strategies, it does provide a framework to enhance comprehension.
Summarizing Strategy: Summarizing improves the comprehension of text using a nine-step summarization strategy with a peer collaboration component. It is designed to help students who read fluently but still struggle with comprehension.
Reciprocal Teaching: an instructional strategy designed to enhance student comprehension of text. Students engage in group discussion using four strategies: summarizing, questioning, clarifying, and predicting.
Frayer Model for Vocabulary: guided use of a graphic organizer that helps students determine or clarify the meaning of vocabulary words.
Get the Gist: reading comprehension practice to help students identify and write brief main idea statements about sections of text.
Recommended Progress Monitoring: