Reading Strategies for Elementary Students
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Title: / Reading Strategies for Elementary Students
Description: / These websites contain reading strategies to help elementary school students become good readers. Some websites simply list strategies and some include activities to help students learn. There are also links to eThemes Resources on inference, context clues, and main idea and supporting details.
Grade Level: / 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Resource Links: / ThinkQuest: The Keys to Success in Reading
This material is written by students. There are modules on "Cause and Effect," "Details," "Sequence," "Figurative Language," and "Main Idea."
Context Clues
Find out how you can use context clues to help figure out what words mean. Includes exercises so you can practice this skill. This site will open as a four-page PDF file.
Curious about Reading Strategies
This three-page PDF file talks about using Visualization to help you with your reading.
Types of Reading
Learn about rapid survey, sampling, and skim reading.
Know It All: SQ3R
Survey. Question. Read. Recall. Review. These are the steps in this reading technique.
Strategies Good Readers Use
This list of strategies for readers was written by a fifth grade class.
A Strategy for Reading Novels
Learn how to take notes to help you when reading a novel. There are links to advice on reading textbooks, improving reading skills, and more. Note: This site includes ads.
Know It All: Reading Skills
Choose one of the links to learn about reading skills, efficient reading, and reading on screen.
What Do Good Readers Do?
Here is a list of good reading strategies to help you become a good reader.
Reading Comprehension Review Sheet
A one-page pdf is a reading comprehension strategies.
Scholastic: Guidelines and Student Handouts for Implementing Read-Aloud Strategies in Your Classroom
This page has teaching resources, such as guidelines, checklists, and assessment tools, for teaching think-aloud strategies for improving reading comprehension. Note: This site includes ads.
eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students
These websites can help elementary students learn how to infer while reading. There are activities, graphic organizers, and short lessons on inference. Includes a link on inference for middle school students.
eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Context Clues
These sites focus on using contextual clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. The sites introduce different types of contextual clues and strategies on using the clues. Exercises, lesson plans, and a song are included. There are links to eThemes resources on Text Structures, Teaching Tips for Decoding Strategies, Synonyms and Antonyms, and Prefixes and Suffixes.
eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Main Idea and Supporting Details
These sites focus on the reading comprehension skills of finding main ideas and supporting details. There are lesson plans, online quizzes, and printable worksheets for practicing reading comprehension skills. There are links to eThemes Resources on Teaching Tips: Reading Comprehension Strategies, Reading Skills: Context Clues, Reading Skills: Sight Words, Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students, and Reading Strategies for Elementary Students.