Episode 6-Comprehension

6 Skills for Reading Comprehension

1. Decoding (Student needs Phonological Awareness—Listen to episode 2)

2. Fluency (Episode 5)

3. Vocabulary (Episode 4)

4. Sentence Construction and Cohesion

   • Reading helps writing and vice verse

   • Read stories and look at sentences

     • Ask about what type of sentence it is

     • Who is the sentence about

     • Notice punctuation in sentence

     • Use the sentence as a model for student/child to write her own

5. Build background knowledge in ways other than reading

   • Relates to vocabulary

   • TV, movies, art, music

   • Talk about experiences

   • Pixar Shorts work great for this

6. Working memory and self-monitoring

   • Student needs to remember what she reads

   • Think aloud

   • Ask child about what they just read