Teaching Comprehension Strategies D ages 8-9 BLM

• This series teaches metacognitive strategies that methodically and creatively enable students to have the skills and strategies for effective comprehension.

These strategies have been defined as:

• understanding words, finding information, identifying the main idea, sequencing, comparing, predicting, concluding, summarising, inferring, cause and effect, fact and opinion, and point of view.

Some features of this series are:

• original and varied texts
• skills and strategies specifically taught using explicitly modelled and supported examples and activities
• a student test page, where students apply the particular strategy being taught
• Ideal for Ages 8-9