Reading Comprehension

1. Reading 101: A guide to teaching reading and writing: Comprehension: Introduction. Reading Rockets. Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101-course/modules/comprehension-introduction. This article offers an introduction for educators in the basics of reading comprehension. The article states that teachers play an integral role in helping students develop comprehension skills, and how these skills are generally considered the main point of reading itself. Lastly, the article includes a video of a teacher using a teaching framework called Concept Orientated Reading Instruction. This is intended for teaching comprehension skills to be taught to 2nd and 3rd graders.

2. Lee, Andrew, M.I. (2014-2018). 6 Essential Skills for Reading Comprehension. Understood: For Learning and Attention Issues. Retrieved from https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/reading-issues/6-essential-skills-needed-for-reading-comprehension. This article discusses how reading comprehension can be challenging for students with learning disabilities, especially those with attention and learning issues. The author highlights decoding, fluency, and vocabulary skills as the most important skills needed for developing effective reading comprehension. Lastly, the author emphasizes everyday activities to build comprehension with the student such as reading aloud and sharing experiences together with a parent.

3. Reading comprehension passages. Jefferson Labs. Retrieved from https://education.jlab.org/reading/index.html. This resource offers a plethora of science-based reading comprehension passages. As students read a passage, they choose from a drop down menu of vocabulary words to accurately match the sentence. This is also good for building science vocabulary. Teachers can also create their own passages with vocabulary words for students to complete, which makes modifications easy for students with disabilities.

4. Snider, V.E. (1989). Reading comprehension performance of adolescents with learning disabilities. Learning Disability Quarterly. Vol. 12(2). p. 87-96. Retrieved from https://libguides.franklinpierce.edu/dipietro. This article discusses a study measuring the effects of prior knowledge on the reading comprehension performance of students with disabilities. Furthermore, it cites how this prior knowledge positively influences these comprehension skills. The article also cites a lack of decoding as the main culprit to reading comprehension difficulties in students with learning disabilities. Lastly, it offers a 5-stage model of reading development as a framework for classroom instruction.

5. Gutierrez, C. B. {ehow}. (2012, August 30). Games for Students to Help Build Comprehension: Teaching With Games. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDSwvFL3mdQ. This resource offers fun games for students to build upon their existing reading comprehension skills. One game is called "Connection Chain", and it uses connections from the story to compare with real-word concepts. This is done by drawing concepts on construction paper and connecting them with the rest of the students in the class. These games were created by an experienced teacher to improve reading skills for 5th-8th graders.