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14: Strategies to Improve Reading Comprehension in the Multisensory Classroom

Study Questions
  1. How has reading instruction changed over the past 50 years?

  2. Which two essential skills are required for comprehension?

  3. Which six steps ensure that comprehension strategies will be generalized?

  4. What strategies were identified by the National Reading Panel as the best or most promising strategies for teaching comprehension? Describe each strategy.

  5. What steps do skilled readers take when they encounter a roadblock to their understanding of the text?
Activity

Visit http://www.pbskids.org/lions/sitemap.html. Scroll down to Stories to Print. Read The Fox and the Crow. Write three text implicit or script implicit questions. Do the same thing with Pandora’s Box.



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