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What are Reading Comprehension Strategies? Reading comprehension strategies are tools that students can use to help determine the meaning of what they read. The strategies presented in Reading Workshop's Comprehension section are those which enable students to interact with fiction or non-fiction, in order to understand and answer questions about what they have read. The Reading Comprehension Strategies Online Tutorials explain how to use these strategies as tools. They should be used by students with the guidance of an adult, in order that any questions they might have can be answered. The tutorials can also be used to teach a class how to use each strategy, if your classroom is equipped with a computer/television hookup. The reading comprehension practice sheets found on the Reading Comprehension Pages for grades 1-2 and 3-5 provide practice in using the comprehension strategies with both fiction and non-fiction text. The science reading sheets for grades 3-5 are written in ESL/ESE-Friendly Format. This means that they have been modified to reduce the amount of text read before answering a question, the concept load of the text, or the sophistication of vocabulary. Click on the grade levels above this section to go to the practice sheet indexes.

Author's Credit: All materials in the comprehension sections unless otherwise credited are the work of Patricia S. Stream and Venetia Theile © 2002