This tool allows students to develop an outline of a person whose biography
or autobiography they
have just read; it can also be used before students write their own
autobiography. Specific prompts
ask
students to describe a person’s significance, background, and personality.
The finished printout can
be
folded into a cube shape that can be used for future reference. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/
Within this page,the complex processes involved in reading comprehension are
divided into three categories (much like the National Reading Panel Report).
The categories include vocabulary instruction, text comprehension
instruction, and teacher preparation and comprehension strategies
instruction. You'll also find useful websites that students can visit to
practice their use of comprehension strategies with fiction and non-fiction
texts at a variety of reading levels. http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/compre.htm