Comprehension Strategies Resources
The KIP promotes the learning and teaching of decoding and comprehension strategies for reading, using the following reading process model.
In particular, it promotes how to teach nine key strategies for reading comprehension— use what I already know; predict; visualise; make connections; question; self-monitor; infer; summarise and synthesise — as well as skim and scan.
Comprehension Posters and Teacher Booklet
The KIP resources help students and teachers to develop these strategies:
- Posters – Reading Comprehension Strategies Posters
- Booklet – Reading Strategies: Teacher Questions and Sentence Prompts.
Hard copies of both the posters and the teacher question book are available from the NET Section office.
Use of Resources
The posters are important resources for shared, guided and supported reading lessons. They are a concrete prompt for teachers to point to and talk about strategies that students can use when trying to comprehend text. Teachers can invite students to talk about strategies.
Schools may find the online posters useful for making e-resources or printing relevant posters or pages for students.
The teacher booklet can help teachers design questions and sentence prompts or model ‘thinking aloud’ language, so that students see how they can help themselves with comprehension.
Ideally, students would have their own copy of the posters.
