Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities

How can you help students develop lifelong reading comprehension habits? How can you provide activities that address the widely varying literacy needs of all your students? If you're looking for answers to these questions, then this book is for you. Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12 offers middle school and high school teachers in all curricular areas research-based, innovative activities to strengthen students' reading comprehension. The activities in the book are organized around six automatic habits of reading comprehension that help proficient readers actively construct meaning as they read: Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing; Accessing and using background knowledge; Making inferences and predictions; Generating and answering questions; Understanding word meanings; Monitoring comprehension; The chapters define and describe the habits, then provide activities that you can use to strengthen students' use of the habits. Each activity offers a brief description of the activity's purpose and a step-by-step procedure for putting it into place. Most activities offer reproducible graphic organizers and variations on the activities.