What are the techniques you use when teaching reading comprehension?

What are the techniques you use when teaching reading comprehension?

1.                   Before reading: Planning for the reading task

2.           Using Authentic Materials 

3.                   During and after reading: Monitoring comprehension

4.                  Using group work to keep students involved

5.                  Using graphic and semantic organizers

6.                  Making students answer questions

7.                  Making students generate questions

8.                  Making students make inferences and connections in order to visualize the ideas presented

9.                  Asking students to recognize story structure

.              Asking students to summarize portions of the passage

.               Using prediction in the middle of the passage

.              Making it personally relevant

.              Connecting it to the real world, prior knowledge and personal experiences

.               Working on vocabulary, grammar and figurative language in the passage

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