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Supporting Beginning Readers In Reading To Learn: A Comprehension Strategy, Lori Mckee, Gay Carr
Supporting Beginning Readers In Reading To Learn: A Comprehension Strategy, Lori Mckee, Gay Carr
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This teaching tip outlines a comprehension strategy designed to support early primary students in reading to learn while learning to read. The strategy is borne of our classroom practices and is designed to support young children in reading and understanding informational texts by facilitating close interactions between text and reader. Through the steps, Read, Stop, Think, Ask, Connect, the strategy supports beginning readers in recognizing and responding to the challenges that informational texts hold for reading and comprehending. The strategy is designed to be used flexibly to account for the diversity of readers and of texts within early primary …