Reading Comprehension Instruction: How to Teach Making Connections

Wouldn’t it be nice if reading comprehension just magically happened? Spoiler Alert: It doesn’t! Although as adult readers we use these reading strategies to help us understand what we read without much effort, young readers need to be explicitly taught what the strategies are and how to use them. Over time, readers will learn to weave in and out of these strategies to fully comprehend the text that they're reading. At the upper elementary level, students have likely been introdu...