A report on five instructional strategies of increasing reading comprehension among students

Research has indicated that the ability to summarize enhances comprehension. Sticky notes can also be removed and organized later for responses to a text.

Answer: His friend was leaving. A central idea in schema theory is that much of human knowledge is stored in schemata that contain organized relational information. There is always room for improving comprehension, no matter how skilled a reader a student may be.

By asking questions in this way, students can help the teacher correct misconceptions. The four R's have students read the material, reflect on what has just been read, recite the major points to help learn better, and then return to the material and see if you can answer the questions previously asked.

The importance of these findings is underlined by a statement in the recent National Association of State Boards of Education document Reading at Risk: How States Can Respond to the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy that "what has remained unchanged in too many middle and high schools and classrooms is the nature of teaching itself"