Reading Strategies

Technical Reading Strategies

Medicine Valley's School Improvement Goal focused on comprehension skills through technical reading strategies.  Listed below are some of the strategies we focused on.  Also included is a link to the folder that all the teachers at Medicine Valley have access too to provide them with the resources they need.  

Reading Strategy Site

Background Knowledge

Background Knowledge Focus 

Summarizing

Summarizing Short Stories 

Summarizing Stories

(40 Reading Intervention Strategies for K-6 Students - Research-

Based Support for RTI by Elaine K. McEwan-Adkins)

Person Summarizing 

Historical Document Summarizing 

Theories/Concepts/Ideas Summarizing 

Groups/Organizations Summarizing

Metacognitive Strategies

The chart below explains what metacognitive strategies are.  The link shared here provides teachers with many options and ideas for working on metacognitive strategies.   

Reading Strategy Site

Metacognition Pyramid
Metacognition - WHAT is it..