The Ultimate Goal

The ultimate goal of reading is comprehending or understanding the text. Teachers are always trying to support students with “fix-up” strategies like “re-read”. But, do our students truly understand what to do when they are merely told to “re-read” it?

These strategies have to be taught in connection with thinking strategies. It is not only the act of re-reading, but what are we actually expecting them to think and do when they reread the text?

The link below leads to a blog that goes in-depth with the importance of sharing our thinking with our student so that they can better understand what these “strategies” really look like, feel like, sound like, and think like!

“Maybe we don’t understand what readers really do - and why it matters”

This blog shares great examples, like the one below, that help us better understand why the students are still struggling.