A broad concept that covers instructional settings, resources, approaches, and tasks.

A reading comprehension strategy where students engage their prior knowledge, establish a purpose for their reading and making predictions or inferences about the text.

A teaching idea used to engage prior knowledge about a topic, provide new vocabulary, and make connections. While students are getting used to the idea of creating a PreP, the teacher will provide an idea and students must brainstorm related words or concepts.

A reading comprehension strategy where students use their prior knowledge to make connections to the text they are reading. Three types of connections exist in this category: text-self, text-text, and text-world.

An instruction process based on explaining, demonstrating, guiding, practicing, and reflecting that can scaffold comprehension.

Encouraging students to integrate their thoughts and extend what they learned to other subject areas after reading.

Motivating students to read by activating their background knowledge, explaining the purpose of the reading, and making predictions about the text before you they begin reading.

An idea that helps students to make connections between the text they are reading, their own lives, other texts, and the world around them. These stems can be used before, during, or after a student is assigned to read a given text.

The construction of the meaning of a written, spoken, or visual communication through an exchange of ideas between the learner and the composer.

A teaching idea used prior to a reading assignment to predict what information the upcoming text will contain. To create a bio-impression, students will choose a person and receive a list of clues about their life connected by downward arrows. A pair of students will try to use the clues