What comprehension strategies should I teach?
What comprehension strategies should I teach?
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- Build background & pre-teach vocabularyFront-loading key words removes barriers so every reader can access the text.
- Model close readingThink aloud to show how to question, infer and track meaning across a passage.
- Guided practice with evidencePupils answer retrieval and inference questions, always pointing back to the text.
- Independent response & feedbackShort written responses and answer keys make progress visible and grading quick.
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What to build in
- Comprehension strategies
- Inference & evidence
- Vocabulary in context
- Retrieval & summarising
- Author’s craft
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Each passage comes with question sets at different demand levels and full answer keys, so you can run mixed-ability guided reading, whole-class comprehension or independent follow-up from the same resource.
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What comprehension strategies should I teach?
Teach a small set of high-impact comprehension strategies — predicting, questioning, clarifying, summarising and inferring — by modelling each explicitly and then having students apply them to real texts. Combine strategy instruction with rich reading and discussion so they become automatic habits, not isolated exercises.
Which strategies matter most?
Questioning, inferring and summarising are especially high-impact — teach a few well rather than many superficially.
How do I teach a strategy?
Model it aloud, practise it together, then have students use it independently on real texts with feedback.
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