Developing Reading Comprehension
 Reading Comprehension
As children learn to read they are able to decode the text by orchestrating a range of cues. To become fluent readers they must also understand or comprehend what they read. To help them do this they need to be taught a range of reading comprehension strategies and be encouraged to reflect on their own understanding and learning. Such an approach helps children go beyond literal interpretation and recall to explore the complex meanings of a text using inference and deduction. They can begin to learn these strategies from the earliest stages of learning to read.
Leaflet 1 will help you to understand how readers make sense of what they read, review the research evidence and suggest ways to teach reading comprehension strategies.
Developing Reading Comprehension 1
Strategies to develop reading comprehension
Reading comprehension is an essential part of the reading process. Children need to be taught a range of reading comprehension strategies to help them fully understand texts.
Leaflets 2 and 3 give practical suggestions for teachers to use in their own classrooms. Leaflet 2 has information on a range of cognitive strategies.
Developing Reading Comprehension 2
This information will help teachers to:
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become aware of a wide range of strategies to encourage reading comprehension;
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know when and how to use them in shared and guided reading;
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know how to model the strategies to children;
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know how to encourage children to use the strategies themselves in shared, guided and independent reading.
- DCSF Primary Frameworks: Developing Reading Comprehension 2 (pdf file)
Further Strategies to Develop Reading Comprehension
Leaflet 3 has information on semantic strategies, interpretive strategies and monitoring understanding.
Developing Reading Comprehension 3
When do we teach reading comprehension?
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