Welcome to Reading Comprehension Strategy Instructions that Work

This site is dedicated to teachers, tutors, parents, instructors in any field who want to learn about effective reading comprehension strategy Comprehension strategies foster active reading and guide a reader to become more self-aware of the reader’s own-understanding during reading. instructions.

Comprehension strategy instructions come into play when readers change from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” The research shows that they are not -- as yet -- widely used in classrooms. The research also strongly suggests that comprehension strategy instructions really do help readers gain more information from their reading.  

What’s Here

This site contains short descriptions of a dozen of the strategies supported by the National Reading Panel (NRP) review of comprehension strategies instruction -- and approaches to train classroom teachers and classroom peers to apply them in the classroom.

There are brief summaries of what resulted from teaching these strategies to students at grade and reading levels. But this is not a comprehensive scientific review of the reading comprehension Interpretations made by a reader during reading a text and stored in stored the reader's memory in a way that facillitates the reader's ability to put what was read and interpreted to some use, e.g., to answer questions about that text. strategy instruction literature.

Nor, does this site provide step-by-step instructions on how to implement a particular strategy. Rather, these are broad outlines designed to help teachers consider using the procedures and steps of comprehension strategy instructions.