Reading Comprehension

Strategies you can use to help your student understand more of what they are reading.

  • Start the book by making predictions about what might happen in the story.

Use information you have been given (title, pictures, etc.) and combine it with what you already know.

  • Ask your student questions while reading

WH questions: Who, what, where, when, why

  • Make comments while reading to direct your students attention to important details.

  • After reading review what happened in the book. Have your student tell you the events in the order they happened.

  • Make Connections!! Does the story remind you of another book, movie, or event in your life?