What is comprehension monitoring?
The process in which readers determine whether they understand and can articulate what they are reading.
Metacognitive strategies for reading are now explicitly taught and modelled through extended reading sessions of a whole class text. Using an annotated copy of the text, teachers stop at key moments to verbalise their thought process. This might be to clarify, summarise or predict. The children are engaged in a high-quality text and are exposed to all the strategies an expert reader employs.Hayley Wood and Dave Seneviratne
Alexandra Park Research School
Blogs
EEF blog: Teaching reading – Embedding comprehension strategies
Caroline Bilton highlights the importance and complexity of teaching reading comprehension strategies.
Blogs
EEF blog: Getting to grips with reading comprehension strategies
Caroline Bilton explains how pupils can be supported to develop into strategic readers using comprehension skills.
Podcasts
New episode of ‘Evidence into Action’ – ‘Exploring the complexities of reading comprehension’
This episode of the ‘Evidence into Action’ podcast, explores the complexities of reading comprehension.
Improving Literacy in Key Stage 2
Develop fluent reading and writing skills for seven – 11 year olds.
Alexandra Park Research School
Using modelling to develop children’s reading behaviours At Alexandra Park Primary School
Developing active, independent readers
Clips from the Classroom
Modelling reading comprehension in the primary classroom
Modelling‘line-by-line’ reading to support reading comprehension.