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I am compiling ideas from teachers on how to reach the students who score low on reading comprehension tests. Aside from upping their fluency, any intervention ideas you use or have seen that work?

Also, our aides spend lots of time copying and working on bulletin boards, rather than working with students during their one hour per day in our classroom. What is your school policy/what teachers do with aides?

In my class I have been having them work in small groups as we read reading comp test stories and discuss what theme means, using process of elimination, etc.

Thanks for your input!

Francie 5th grade
Rhonda 4th grade On 3/29/09 The best success I have seen in my classroom is reading novels together, stopping at the end of each chapter and writing notes, and at the same time identifyng grammar points such as synonyms, antonyms, adjectives, similes, metaphors, etc. I alternate with reading whole-class, and having the students read in groups. There is so much you ...See More
Mar 29, 2009
MarshaA I like that you are having them work in groups. I think you might want to make sets of large prompt cards with "who, what, when, how, why etc" written boldly on them. Then, after reading the story, have the students in each group, locate the students in another group, with the same card, and discuss that point of the story. Then, maybe one of the s...See More
Mar 29, 2009


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