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• Reading Comprehension
• Reading in English
• Out of School Time
• Support Materials
• Tote Bag
• About this Site

• Introduction
• Week 1: Initial Assessment
• Reading Together
• Brainstorming
• Week 4: Visualization
• Introduction to Visualization
• Application: Visualization with Poetry
• Week 8: Making Connections
• Text-to-Self
• Text-to-World
• Week 12: Interpreting the Author's Intent
• Text-to-Text Connection
• Making Predictions
• Saying Goodbye & Closure
• Last Assessment
• Wrap Up

What you'll experience in this unit is a series of virtual tutoring sessions. At the end of each interaction, you will be prompted to make a decision about a tutoring challenge or to move on and explore the next interaction.

Emily and Joyce: Working on Reading Comprehension

About Reading Comprehension

We want children to develop a love of reading and become lifelong readers. Reading comprehension is an active process, an interaction that occurs between the reader and the text. This happens when the reader acquires meaning from print and connects it to personal experience, knowledge about the world, or books previously read. Reading consists of much more than being able to correctly pronounce the words on a page. More!

About Emily: A second-grader who considers herself to be a good student. She follows the teacher's directions and is eager to participate in classroom activities.

About Joyce: An AmeriCorps member tutoring for the first time.

Tutoring Challenge: Emily's teacher tells Joyce she is concerned about Emily's reading comprehension. Emily pronounces the words in books easily but cannot talk about what she's read with detail or insight. Emily also doesn't realize when she doesn't understand something she has read.

About the Planner: This is where Joyce keeps notes about her tutoring sessions with Emily. Joyce records information to help plan future sessions and to gauge Emily's progress. She also uses the planner to take notes on what she observes about Emily and what she'd still like to learn about her.

See Emily's and Joyce's First Tutoring session

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