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The goal of learning to read is comprehension, and there are best teaching strategies.

Reading comprehension lesson plans that are fun and embedded in all teaching reading strategies!

With the new Common Core, more English language learners than ever before, and higher expectations for even our youngest primary education students, what is a teacher to do?

We have to make the most of our time and use the best creative teaching strategies out there.

Reading comprehension is the ultimate goal in any reading lesson plan.

But there are many components and steps to reach that goal.

You have to include fluency, vocabulary, independent and guided reading, author studies, and specific skill strategies.

Children learning to read is a complicated process. When we consider thoughtful literacy, we have to keep the end goal of reading in mind: a deep understanding of the text.

Choose from the Reading Menus below to find your solution for how to best teach reading comprehension!

Reading Comprehension Lesson Plans

Reading Comprehension	Reading Comprehension Activities	Free Reading Comprehension Activities	Reading Comprehension Worksheets
Teaching Main Idea	Main Idea Activities	Author Studies

Students will not be able to move into the deeper areas of comprehension though without a solid foundation of essential literacy skills.

To get to this point, we have to carefully structure our lesson plans to include:

Read Aloud Books

Reading to Children

Children Reading

Interactive Read Aloud

Benefits of Reading to Children

Teaching Reading Strategies

Teaching Reading to Children	Literacy Block	Reading Library	Teaching Reading Strategies
Guided Reading Lessons	Short Stories to Reading Online	Reading Interventions	Reading Intervention Strategies

Teaching Reading Fluency

How to Teach Phonics	What is Word Recognition	Reading Comprehension Exercises
Elementary Poetry	Reading Fluency Strategies	Reading Fluency Activities

And so much more!

Reading comprehension should be embedded from day one through interactive read alouds. If we can't get our students to love listening to stories and create the desire to want to do it themselves, all other lessons will ultimately not be effective.

The area of comprehension is huge. Inferring, sequencing, understanding the main idea, making connections, deriving meaning from the text, responding to higher level questions - that is all comprehension.

These skills should start to be taught even at the youngest levels.

There is an art to teaching reading.

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