Proof, practice, and promise: Comprehension instruction in the primary grades This article reviews the research on comprehension strategy instruction in the primary grades (K-2) and makes recommendations for teachers. ntil recently, I believed that my job as a first- or second-grade teacher was to de- velop fluent readers with the ability to de-

How to Teach Reading Skills. 10 Best Practices. Knowing your students' level of instruction is important for choosing materials. It is easy to teach: we've been reading and hearing stories most of our lives. However, reports, business letters, personal letters, Story Grammar Marker: A marker is a useful and easy to use tool for students when they first attempt to compose original stories using classic story grammar sequence. The marker is a tool that helps your students tell, or retell their own experiences and stories, and also helps students to shape and compose their own written stories. Studying the story elements and structure of fiction is an important way to deepen your child's reading comprehension because it helps them understand what is important. It also spills over nicely into helping them write their own fictional stories. Some Fiction Story Elements Include*: Characters: main characters & supporting characters Story Grammars: Some Cautions about the Translation of Research into Practice. Schmitt, Maribeth Cassidy; O'Brien, David G. Reading Research and Instruction, v26 n1 p1-8 Fall 1986. Examines some of the intentions that guided research into story structure, considers some of the validity problems Because Structured Literacy was originally devised to support students who struggle with reading, many educators assume that the approach is only for remedial instruction. But Structured Literacy is appropriate for the general education classroom because it supports the reading acquisition of all students. Borello, Michele Nesbitt, "The Effects of Story Retelling on Kindergarten Children's Liste