Reading Strategies

Determing Areas of Difficulty for Students Who Struggle with Reading

Reading Development Instructional Guide UGDSB.pdf

Reading Development Instructional Guide

Developed by UGDSB elementary curriculum leaders, useful for supporting students who are reading below grade 9 level.

Assessing Text Difficulty for Students.pdf

Assessing Text Difficulty for Students

Part of the Research into Practice series developed for Ontario educators

Guided Reading - Small Group Instruction

Guided Instruction in Small Groups

Prepared by Shari Roberts and Carrie Nethery for May 2017 Literacy Day; supports assessing individual student needs

Competent Adolescent Readers Chart

Developed by ALL for reading webinar series.

Specific Areas of Need

Developing Fluency

Capacity Building Series: Reading Fluency

Developed for Ontario educators

"Fluency" article, by Rafael Heller, Ph.D.

From All About Adolescent Literacy website

Copy of Bridging Read Alouds and Independent Reading

Bridging Read Alouds and Independent Reading

Compiled by Dianne Fenner

Google Read Aloud

Use this feature anywhere Google Read&Write works (eg, websites, Google docs, etc). The Read Aloud feature can be used for students to practice reading.

Accessing Prior Knowledge

Building Background Knowledge

LiteracyGAINS ALERT

Newsela offers free articles that can be altered to suit 5 distinct reading levels. Suitable content for intermediate and senior reading levels.

RAN (Reading and Analysing Non-Fiction) Organizer

Click on the image to go to a template - make a copy to use.

Updated KWL Chart for 21st Century

Click on the image to go to a website article.

Building Vocabulary

The breadth and depth of knowledge about the meaning of words.

Developing Subject-Specific Vocabulary

LiteracyGAINS ALERT

Vocabulary Paint Chips

Fry Word List: First 1000 most used words.

Enhancing Comprehension

TeacherVision: Reading Comprehension Resources: Grades 9-12

TeacherVision post with links

Strategies to Help Students 'Go Deep' When Reading Digitally

Web article

Supporting Understanding of Graphic Texts

LiteracyGAINS ALERT

Making Inferences

Inference ALERT.pdf

Inferring During Reading

LiteracyGAINS ALERT

Video: Making Inferences

Simple video that explains and practices making inferences

What's Going On in This Picture?

Featured in the New York Times every Monday

Reacting to Reading

I Read/Saw/Heard, I Think, Therefore

Use to help draw conclusions, this has been adapted from Think Literacy (pp 71-73) to incorporate visual and audio texts (such as videos, photos)

Both Sides Now Template

Both Sides Now

Use to make judgements; can be used with any type of text as long as it includes opinions; adapted from Think Literacy (pp 74-77)

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