Goals for Using Comprehension Monitoring Strategies Read more about my goals here. Teaching Comprehension Strategies A recent study by Kärbla et. al. concluded, “Thus, the explicit teaching of comprehension strategies supports students in becoming aware of using multiple comprehension strategies, despite individual differences.” (Kärbla et al, 2023) Strategies are problem-solving steps that help guide your […]
These teaching tools will help your elementary students use the monitoring comprehension strategy to actively think about the text as they read.
A mini-lesson and anchor chart for showing early elementary students how to monitor their comprehension as they read.
Self-monitoring reading comprehension is such an important skill. Here are 4 activities to teach your students to practice self-monitoring.
Monitoring Comprehension has never been so fun! We have a ton of ideas and activities for you to use during your reading strategy unit!
Could you use some help in monitoring your homeschool student’s reading progress? You can use these free monitoring forms to observe your students’ progress with comprehension strategies throughout the year.
reading-informational-text-worksheets. Great for special ed! Helpful in general ed! Tools for data collection and progress monitoring.
Have you ever found yourself thinking of something else while reading? I do this all the time! I especially do this when I am reading resource books. I find myself wondering how to bake a wedding cake (see previous post). Monitoring Comprehension is one of our reading strategies to help students understand and remember what they are reading. You can read more from Strategies That Work by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis. I created a simple template for my second graders using the Read, Write, and TalK (p.82). This is their favorite one because, socially, they love to talk! Students read and record their thoughts on the sheet. I wanted them to think of four events that they wanted to share with others. The fun part is talking to their peers about what they are reading. Monitoring comprehension helps students stay on top of what they are reading. The Read, Write, and Talk allows them to build their social skills. Click Here to Download
Reading is thinking. Help your students actively think about the text while reading with these monitoring comprehension activities.
With many of us thrown into an unexpected period of distance learning, I wanted to highlight how my digital reading comprehension activities can help your
The Superpowers of Sticky Notes! Check out these fun bookmarks for your students to reference during reading. They highlight the strategies of Asking Questions, Making Connections, Making Predictions, Making Inferences, Monitoring Comprehension, and Making Evaluations. Available as a FREE download at TpT or HMH. Available in color or black line, they come three to a page. Have your students grab a pencil, some sticky notes and a bookmark for reference and get started documenting their thinking. Great for formative assessment! Enjoy! SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave
Fifth Grade Oral Reading Fluency Passages with Comprehension Questions Build confident and fluent readers with this engaging set of 15 original oral reading fluency passages for 5th grade! Includes comprehension questions, answer keys, WPM tracker, and fluency progress chart. This ready-to-use resource includes 15 engaging reading fluency passages written specifically for 5th grade readers. Each passage comes with a word count, comprehension questions, and an answer key, making it easy to monitor student progress in reading fluency and understanding. Use these fluency passages in: ✅ Small group reading ✅ Intervention or RTI ✅ Homework ✅ Weekly fluency practice ✅ Literacy centers Each passage includes: Word count (140–160 words) 4 comprehension questions (multiple choice + open-ended) Answer key Variety of themes: fiction, nonfiction, seasonal, STEM, history & more Bonus: WPM Tracker Sheet & Fluency Progress Chart Perfect for fluency practice, tracking growth, and building confidence in upper elementary readers! What’s Included: 15 Fluency Passages (Printable) 15 Answer Keys 15 Sets of Comprehension Questions 1 WPM Tracker Sheet (fillable) 1 Fluency Progress Chart (fillable)
Hi again! It's Alison from Ms. Lilypad's Primary Pond . Today I want to share with you a little tip on self monitoring comprehension that ...
There are always students who don't monitor comprehension. This article gives practical suggestions to help students.
These Reading Comprehension Bookmarks give students the tools they need to successfully share their great ideas about what they have read.
Today's educational world is filled with data collection, progress monitoring, and somehow knowing what to do with it all. Over the last couple of years, I have worked hard to develop systems and procedures for making the data collection process easier. This past year, I monitored the fluency and comprehension rates for a group of fourth grade students for my evaluation so the pressure is on to make sure that my methods for collection and organization is top notch. While working on this, I was also taking a Response to Intervention class for my masters. The two things could not have come at a better time. The following post may make you feel like your back in school but trust me it is full of valuable information! The Data Collection Process Data collection can occur in many ways depending on your style, what works best for your group of students, and schedule. Since I was monitoring fluency for a group of 18 students, I struggled with how to find the time to complete all of the students efficiently and effectively. During the first nine weeks, I would attempt to do a running record and ask comprehension questions with each student. After working at this for four days just to complete ONE round of data collection, I knew I had to find another way. This was too time consuming and left me little time to actually deliver interventions to help them improve on their fluency. Meanwhile, my husband was using the Educreations app to make videos for his flipped classroom. While observing him recording a video one evening, I had a great idea to let me students read aloud to the iPad and I could listen to it all later. Saving me three days of wasted progress monitoring time. I hand my students the iPad with the app open and the fluency passage that comes with our reading series so our kids are being monitored on a grade level text. They press record, read the passage, and raise their hand when they are finished. Then, I can ask them their comprehension questions in about 45-60 seconds depending on the student. They LOVE this! There are also many advantages to this, such as getting a true indication of how the student reads independently as well as taking away the nerves of having a teacher sit next to them recording each and every miscue they make while reading. I always ask them the questions included in the freebie below. Click on the image to download a pdf version. I also provide this to parents at my annual conferences so they can ask the same questions and discuss the answers at home. I tell parents that these same questions can apply to movies, cartoons, and TV shows as well as books. They are basic questions and if they cannot answer these, then deeper more meaningful comprehension is not possible. Overwhelmed yet?!?! Making Use of the Data Here comes the fun part!!! I discovered this website through my masters class where I was required to complete a module from the IRIS Center on Response to Intervention. {VERY helpful and insightful if you want to check it out!} Part of the assessment process that is often skipped is the part to make use of the data to drive intervention. The IRIS Center has included a special calculator that helps to determine if an intervention is effective. {This calculator really just calculates slope....if algebra isn't your strong suit, I would stick with the calculator!} As you can see from the chart above, the slopes of my student's fluency scores range from 0.29 to 2.6. Since this is my own intervention and monitoring series, there is not a predetermined value for slope to prove whether an intervention is effective or not. However, I can use common sense to see that if some students are progressing at a rate of 1.5 or above and others are less than 0.5 something else must be done to those lower level students. Although my students are all increasing in their fluency speed, could something else be done to help these students progress at a higher level? Thanks for reading my post! If you like what you see, feel free to check out my blog by clicking "The Primary Gal" button below! Now it's your turn....how do you progress monitor?
