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1.)  Close Sentence Reading to Foster Decoding and Comprehension  

Close sentence reading to foster decoding and comprehension: This article is discussing how engaging young readers in close sentences helps them with developing decoding and comprehension skills. Close sentences reading helps young readers develop decoding and comprehension skills by allowing them to exploring and discussing short excerpts of complex text. In this article it discussing a four step process that will help educators with implementing CRS(close sentence reading). These steps include practicing decoding skills, rereading for fluency, asking questions to identify unknown words or phrases and making connections to prior knowledge. 

2.) Teaching Early Readers to Self - Monitor and Self Correct 

This article is discussing the importance of teaching young readers how to self monitor and self correct while reading. In the article it discussion students who do not know how to self monitor and self correct. The article says that students who do not know how to self monitor and self correct are not making meaning of the text/words they are reading. Which means they are not comprehension the text that they are reading. When students do not understand the meaning of a text it is hard to engaged them in the text. This article goes on to give lots of tips and strategies on how to teach students to self monitor and self correct.

3.)  Maximizing the Effectiveness of Reading Aloud 

This article is discussing the benefits of read allows for young readers. The article states that read aloud’a are most important activity that helps young readers build knowledge that is required for becoming successful readers. This articles examines that read aloud’s increase young readers listening comprehension, promotes syntactic development, and increases the readers ability to recognize words. This article gives parents and teachers effective methods to ensure that their child/students are getting the most out of read aloud’s.

4.) Comprehension Strategies from RS  

This page provide education with strategies for teaching different reading skills to young readers. The skills that the article is covering are summarizing, retelling, determining importance, interring, and synthesizing. Though out the article it is providing strategies, teaching tips, prompts, and lesson language for those skills. 

5.)  Understanding the Relationship Between Reading Comprehension Skills and Strategies 

This article is providing a in-depth definition or reading compression skills and strategies as well as explaining the relationship between the two. This article discusses how strategies more complex than skills, but in order to use certain strategies the students must have apply their skills. You creo go together hand and hand to improve a readers reading fluency.