Helping Your Students Make Inferences When They Read

How can teachers help their students to become stronger readers? Simple. Give them the tools (aka reading comprehension strategies) to help them make sense of what they read. Ok, maybe not so simple. Teaching students these strategies does take practice, intentional instruction, and loooots of modeling. But that doesn’t mean we have to make it complicated in the way that we teach these reading strategies. When it comes to teaching comprehension strategies, like inferring, we can ...