Reading Comprehension
Strategy: Collaborative Strategic Reading (CSR)
Appropriate Grade Level: 4th-6th Grades
Procedures/Steps:
1.) Preview
*
Click – Understood Information
Clunks – What I did not understand
a. Learn as much about the passage
__________________________________
as possible in 2-3 minutes
__________________________________
b. Activate background knowledge
__________________________________
about the topic
__________________________________
c. Make predictions about what they
Get the Gist – Meaning of text
will learn
__________________________________
2.) Click and Clunk
__________________________________
a. A “click” is when the information
__________________________________
they are going is being comprehended.
It’s “clicking” into place. 
Wrap Up – Make Up and Answer
Questions
b. A “clunk” is when something does not
1.)________________________________
make sense. Ex. An unknown word.
2.)________________________________
c. When the student is finished reading,
they go back and try to figure out the “clunks”.
3.) Get the Gist
a. This is when the student understands and
can state the main point of what they just read.
b. They should be able to restate what happened.
4.) Wrap Up
a. This is done when students learn to
formulate and answer questions about what they learned, and review key ideas.
Comments and/or Tips:


The goal of all of this is to improve students’ knowledge, understanding, and memory
of what they read.
This can also be done in groups, where each member of the group gets a section they
are the “expert” of.
Source:
Klingner, J.K., & Vaughn, S. (1998). Using collaborative strategic reading. Teaching
* Exceptional Children, 30(6), 32-37.