Issue 1
February
2014
READING L INKS TO ENHANCE STUDEN T LEARNING
Current Best Reading Practices
 Read aloud to students daily
 Independent reading
 Use of trade books, picture books, magazines
 Student choice of material
 Teacher modeling of skills and strategies
 Content area reading
 Use of higher-level questioning
 Use of creative and critical thinking
Sites
 Decoding ideas
 http://www.readwritethink.org/
 Reading Strategies Photo (save as to desktop
then insert into Word document)
 Interactive Comprehension
 Scootpad
 Comprehension Games
Online reading
 Read Works
 Mr. Nussbaum Reading Comprehension
 Book Adventure!
 Comprehension Strategies
 Newsela
 Adapted Mind Reading
 Follett online reading through Building LMC
Reading comprehension Strategies
 Activate prior knowledge
 Visualize
 Use context clues
 Infer meaning
 Think aloud
 Summarize the story
 Locate key words
 Make predictions
 Use word attack strategies
 Use graphic organizers
 Evaluate understandings
Contact us!
Apps
 Scoot pad
 StoryKit
 Story Wheel
 Bluster
 Word Salad
 Our Story
 Shake a Phrase
 Book Creator

Send us your tips, apps, websites, questions,
june.lingle@lz95.org or sharonk.price@lz95.org

To view other information, including past newsletters visit our website
or
ideas
to