Welcome to the Reading Resources. We've assembled a variety of tools for you to use to help students of all reading abilities use this site. These tools offer proven strategies and techniques that can help students negotiate and understand different kinds of texts. Some tools have special handouts (called flyers) that you can duplicate and give to students. All tool are available in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adjusting the Rate of Reading Learn strategies to help students adjust their rate of reading as they read different texts. Watch Your Reading Speed! Use this guide to help all readers decide the appropriate "reading speed" they should adapt for different kinds of texts. Book Talks Find out how to "market" books to your kids. Classroom Libraries Read hot tips to help you develop your own classroom library. Clicks & Clunks Help students monitor their own comprehension by giving them the vocabulary to discuss what is happening to them as they read. Fix-Up Strategies to Repair Clunks Peruse this collection of strategies to assist students when you notice their comprehension is failing. FOR STUDENTS: Fix-Up Strategies Flyer (Adobe Acrobat) Use this checklist as a reminder to students about strategies they can use as they read challenging texts. Hang-A-Story Use this device to help students keep track of an emerging story. Monitoring Comprehension Learn techniques to monitor and assess how well students are making sense of what they read. Paraphrasing Find out how to effectively teach students to tell a story in their own words. Preview Guides Use this strategy to help tap and build on students' prior knowledge about the subject of a text. Retelling Harness this powerful technique for checking understanding. FOR STUDENTS: Retelling Flyer (Adobe Acrobat) Use this checklist to help students plan to retell a story in their own words. Summarizing Help students develop their ability to present a condensed version of the information they find in a text. FOR STUDENTS: Summary Checklist for Different Text Structures Flyer (Adobe Acrobat) Are your students working on cause/effect? Descriptive text structures? Perhaps main idea and details? Provide one of these 7 checklists to help them summarize texts with different structures. Types of Context Learn new ways of guiding students as they deal with different context clues writers use to unlock the meaning of challenging vocabulary. «back to top