Are you a content-only teacher?Sometimes when we teach content areas like math, social studies, and science, we tend to think the language arts teacher is the one responsible for teaching students comprehension. So we go about our business teaching what we love, while our middle school students feel more lost by the minute. Many times good readers struggle when they enter the middle school curriculum because their content area books become a challenge for them to comprehend unless we teach them. Yes, this even means the math teacher teaching comprehension!
Cris Tovani does an excellent job of teaching comprehension strategies in her book Do I Really Have to Teach Reading? The book is easy to read and gives strategies like the sticky note strategy, and templates like the Double-Entry Diary that can be used in the classroom immediately. Her strategies have been proven to help students catch their thoughts collectively and independently to help them comprehend content subjects in a way they didn't think they could. Even content teachers will find this resource easy to implement without having to add to their curriculum.
Isn't that what we all want? Proven strategies to help our students comprehend in any subject!
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