Fix up strategies for reading

Fix-Up Strategies

My tier 3 fifth grade group is a pretty intensive group. I noticed that these students do not self-monitor when they are reading, and as a result, they do not problem solve. For this reason, I decided to give an explicit lesson on fix-up strategies. We began by creating an anchor chart together. (The students even wrote on the chart for this one!) In this lesson, we focused on what to do when we do not understand specific words and when we do not understand what is happening in the story…

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Have students who just can't remember what they have read? I have ten reading comprehension strategies to use right away to help them out!

The ultimate goal of any reading teacher is for students to have strong reading comprehension! Although reading comprehension encompasses lots of different reading skills, basically we want students to understand what they’ve read. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? In a typical class though, you’ll have a variety of types of readers. There’ll usually be a handful […]

The third grade students are using the colors of a stop light to help them gauge their reading. If they are having green light thinking then they are able to comfortably understand the text. They are creating visible mind movies as they read. When they are using yellow light thinking they are applying fix up strategies to unknown words as they read. If they are using red light thinking, then they have encountered a part of the text that is hard to read so they must stop and make inferences.

Hey there! Jen Bradshaw here from TeacherKARMA.com Teachers, can you believe that you actually have to tell your students to THINK WHILE THEY READ? Reading is Thinking Resource has the perfect anchor chart for working on: predict infer visualize make connections question the text summarize Grab your FREEBIE over at Teacher KARMA. Best wishes! Jen Bradshaw You Might ... Read More about READing is THINKing – Comprehension Anchor Chart

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