Chapter 3: How children become good readers

In Chapter 3 of the textbook, The  Joy of Literature, it mentions a lot of strategies to use in order to improve comprehension.

Some strategies that were listed were:

1. Prediction
2. Monitoring Comprehension
3. Making Inferences
4. Summarization
5. Questions/ Questioning

Something I would like to add to that list is a Picture Walk. A picture walk is allows students to establish an interest in a particular story or assignment. The teacher flips through the pages of the book explaining vocabulary as well a the pictures in the book. After the teacher and student's finish the picture walk, the teacher reads the whole book. This strategies is also really great for your ELL's and DLL's.