Reading Strategies Favorites Bundle / Pre-Reading & Author's Purpose

At the secondary level, it can be difficult to think about teaching reading comprehension. Sure, there's a standard for that, but there are so many other standards beyond reading comprehension.

As a high school language arts teacher, I may not teach phonics or phonemic awareness, but I do teach reading comprehension skills and strategies.

After a decade of teaching, these are my favorite reading strategies for high school English. Now, I've bundled them all together in one place so you have everything you need!

• 4 Strategies for Pre-Reading Poetry: Sometimes students are so intimidated by poetry that they don't know where to begin. To help students feel more confident with poetry, I've put together these 4 simple steps to help students pre-reading any poem!
• 4 Steps to Pre-Read Nonfiction: The variety of nonfiction and informational texts can be dizzying, so I've gathered these 4 steps to help students pre-read any informative or nonfiction text. I love these steps because they empower students to take control of their own reading comprehension!
• Beyond P-I-E: A Better Way to Teach Author's Purpose: At the high school level, P-I-E is too simple an acronym for teaching author's purpose. For this reason, I designed a brand new acronym--RECEIPT--to help students understand nuance.

Since all three of these resources contain Google Slides, TPT will automatically create a folder in your Google Drive where you will find everything. Per the terms of use of the font and clipartists, the resources are not editable.

Use these tools to help students attack these texts:

-6 Tools for Teaching "Privileged" by Kyle Korver

-4 Tools for Teaching "The Danger of a Single Story"

-3 Tools for Teaching "The Immigrant Contribution" by JFK

-"Words and Behaviors" by Aldous Huxley Analysis Questions

-Thomas Paine's The Crisis No. 1 Questions, Prompts, SOAPTone, and Google Form

-"Speech at the Virginia Convention" Questions, Prompts, and SOAPSTone Analysis

-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" SOAPSTone Analysis and Reading Questions

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Read more about poetry annotations on Moore English. Check out these posts:

-How to Introduce a New Text

-4 Steps to Pre-Read ANY Poem

-4 Steps to Pre-Read ANY Nonfiction of Informational Text

-How to Teach Text Features: Strategies for Student Success

-15 Places to Find New, High-Quality Texts for Your Classroom

-10 Interesting Poems for Helping Students Master Inference

-10 Memorable Poems for Helping Students Master Main Idea

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