Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6-12: A Toolkit of Classroom Activities

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12 offers middle school and high school teachers in all curricular areas research-based, innovative activities to strengthen students’ reading comprehension.

The activities in the book are organized around six automatic habits of reading comprehension that help proficient readers actively construct meaning as they read:

1) Organizing text information by sculpting the main idea and summarizing
2) Connecting to background knowledge
3) Making inferences and predictions
4) Generating and answering questions
5) Understanding and remembering word meanings
6) Monitoring one’s own comprehension

The chapters define and describe the habits, then provide activities that you can use to strengthen students’ use of the habits. Each activity offers a brief description of the activity’s purpose and a step-by-step procedure for putting it into place.

SPECIAL FEATURE: Most activities offer reproducible graphic organizers reproducible graphic organizers and variations on the activities to help English language learners, struggling readers, and other students who need extra support.

AUDIENCE: Middle school and high school preservice and inservice teachers, teacher educators, remedial teachers, reading specialists, supervisors and administrators.