Students need to have scaffolded lessons in which the teacher gradually releases the responsibility for using the strategy to the student.

We know that strategies can be effectively taught when they are introduced one at a time, with the teacher explaining directly what the strategy is, how to use it, and when it is appropriate.

These comprehension strategies include accessing prior knowledge, predicting, questioning, making connections, visualizing, inferencing, using text structure to identify major ideas, paraphrasing, clarifying, summarizing, and creating pictures and graphs (56). These same strategies are useful for fully appreciating and understanding fictional texts that incorporate informational elements.

In their book, Kletzien and Dreher describe several techniques for introducing and teaching comprehension strategies specific to informational texts.

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