Question-Answer Relationships (QAR's)
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.
Directed Reading Activity (DRA)
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.
Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DRTA)
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)
The Knowledge Chart (K-W-L)
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.
Summarizing (Helps student discover the main idea)
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.
Directed Listening Thinking Activity (DLTA)
Used to engage students in text which is above their independent and/or instructional reading level.