Raise the Bar Reading

Teaching #reading Comprehension Strategies: Asking Questions QAR Strategy - Raise the Bar Reading

This FREE nonfiction text features scavenger hunt is such a fun, hands on, and authentic activity for students to see nonfiction text features in real informational texts or nonfiction reading passages!

👏👏Beyond excited about these new reading comprehension crafts I am posting in my store! I will be working tomorrow to get the rest of them…

As teachers, it is so important that we continually switch up the types of fiction reading response we offer to students.

WHY TEACH STUDENTS TO FIND THE MAIN IDEA? Being able to find the main idea and supporting details of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill for upper elementary students (3rd-5th grade). "Learning

Scope and Sequence for teaching ESL Grammar

Reading nonfiction texts can be overwhelming for students, especially when it comes to a topic they are unfamiliar with at a reading a level that is even slightly above theirs. With a push to read

Five Tips for Building ELLs’ Academic Vocabulary: A teaching blog post on how to build your English Language Learner's academic, or content area, vocabulary in your classroom. These tips work for ELLs of all levels, from beginning to advanced English acquisition. Teaching ESL, ELL Resources for Science, Social Studies and more.

Using background knowledge is reading both fiction and nonfiction texts is essential for reading comprehension. The more knowledge students have on a topic, the easier it will be for them to understand, and make connections

Asking questions before, during, and after reading comes very naturally to skilled readers, but for struggling readers, this skill can be just the opposite. Asking questions of varying depths is arguably the most important reading