These low tech manipulatives are useful for students to keep track of important information. This helps students' comprehension and understanding of a text. These types of tools can also be used on high tech devices such as laptops, so students can build upon their comprehension and note taking skills.
Book builder is a great way to increase student comprehension when reading a text. This site allows a student to translate a text into Spanish, does a read aloud of a text, and teachers to create their own stories with the features. This allows students to access their background knowledge of language. The read alouds and visualization of the text helps add to student comprehension.
This website from the Smithsonian is a great way for students to access their background knowledge, or build upon their background knowledge, thus setting them up for success in comprehension. It is a fun, interactive, and easy to navigate website that quizzes students on their knowledge of certain subjects, and if they get an answer wrong it provides a link for where to find the correct answer.
Some students may benefit from using a traditional paper organizer, but others may do better with an online chart. This website helps increase student comprehension by allowing students an easier way to access their prior knowledge about a subject. After completion, these charts can be printed out for easy access.
The Don Johnston products allow for teachers and students to access the curriculum in a variety of ways to help increase a student's comprehension. This product contains basic books that are used in a classroom and then elaborates on ways to understand them, such as books on CD's for read alouds.
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