Teaching Reading

As students get to more advanced material, the focus of studying moves to reading, comprehending and recalling material that has been read from textbooks, articles or other material. One way to build comprehension power is to teach students to summarize.
Summarizing involves pulling the important points from reading material, organizing them, and paraphrasing them in [...]

Have you tried cloze technique to build reading comprehension?  The idea is simple: Efficient readers actually don’t read every word in a passage.  They make predictions and then check their expectations against the text that is actually there.  The more effective the predictions, the less frequently the reader needs to stop and actually decode the [...]