Oklahoma Reading Test (ORT) Comprehension strategies

Helps children enhance their comprehension by helping them answer a range of questions and understand each question's relationship to the text, the author, and themselves.

A strategy that provides students with instructional support before, during, and after reading. The teacher takes an active role as he or she prepares students to read the text by pre-teaching important vocabulary, eliciting prior knowledge, teaching students how to use a specific reading skill, and providing a purpose for reading.

Improves comprehension by having children focus on a particular passage and to make predictions about it based on textual features. (Pre-reading, during reading, post-reading)

Intended to be used before or after reading or listening to a selection containing factual material. Good for approaching new content and actively engaging in it.

Teaches students how to discern the most important ideas in a text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to integrate the central ideas in a meaningful way. Improves students memory of what is read.

Used to engage students in text which is above their independent and/or instructional reading level.