NSW Centre for Effective Reading

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Comprehension Strategies

Comprehension strategies are employed before, during, and after reading. Effective readers automatically employ strategies to understand what they are reading. Struggling readers, however, need explicit instruction on how to use strategies to assist them in understanding what they read as well as ample practice at both guided and independent levels, in using these strategies with a variety of texts

 Strategy instruction (PDF 51KB)

 Main idea (PDF 132KB)

 Summarising (PDF 82KB)

 Fix up strategies (PDF 275KB)

 Integrated strategies (PDF 43KB)

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