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Strategy Resource Collection Template

Use this document for YOUR benefit. I have included some of the reading difficulties assessed by
The DRA and Fountas and Pinnell Assessments. The Self-Monitoring Difficulty is one that I added
when I found information in the reading. Feel free to add other categories as you see fit.

Fluency
Skill: Reading Rate
Strategy:
1. Repeated Reading with or without a
model and without interruption (one day a
week)
2. Extensive practice (wide reading not
repeated reading) with appropriate leveled
materials.
1. Phrase Reading
2. Appropriate level text
Skill: Reading with Expression
Strategy:
1. Use punctuation for an idea how the text
may sound
2. Using a storytellers voice
3.Illstrations, phrases to understand the
expression/personality the character has
Skill: Phrasing
Strategy:
1. Chunk text
2. Shorten text (Break up sentences)
3.Use punctuations
Skill: Accuracy
Activity:
1.Texts at the right level
2. Running through with finger, pointing
3. Cross checking (Words and pictures)
4. Use pictures, do the pictures and words
match?
5. Beginning and ending sounds
6. Chunk letters and sounds

Source:
What Really Matters for Struggling
Readings, Allington, p. 107
What Really Matters for Struggling
Readings, Allington, p.107
Cafe, p24
Caf, p29
Source:
Growing Readers, p132
Growing Readers, p133
Growing Readers, p134
Source:
Growing Readers, 132
Caf, p29
Caf, p29
Source:
Caf, p24
Growing Readers, 127
Caf, p29
Caf, p29
Caf, p29
Caf, p29

Comprehension
Skill: Predicting/Previewing
Strategy:
1. Activating Prior Knowledge helps
develop prediction skills.
1. Questioning, write down or post it the
questions
2. (Text to self, text to text) Use what they
know in those situations to predict what
may happen in the story

Source:
What Really Matters for Struggling
Readings, Allington, p.136
Growing Readers, p170
Growing Readers, p175

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Skill: Retelling in order
Strategy:
1.Sequencing helps develop retelling
details
2. Summarize text
3. Come back to previous event while
reading
4. Question, to allow student to make
connections to better remember the order
Skill: Retelling with Details
Strategy:
1. Partner sharing (Read together, retell
together)
2. Make a picture or mental image to
remember details
3.Main idea and supporting details to
determine importance
4. Questioning
Skill: Interpreting
Strategy:
1. Envisioning, using post its to draw the
picture in your mind
2. Inferring (read and talk out aloud)
3. Questioning and drawing
conclusion/connections
Skill: Making Connections
Strategy: Using these individual
connections, so students better
understand the reading. You can make
them into individual lessons.
1.Text to self, text to world and text to text
2. Use prior knowledge
3. Mental images/pictures
Skill: Reflection
Strategy:
1. Question feeling about the text
2. Book Logs
Skill: Self Monitoring
Strategy:
1. Teachers Modeling Thinking Aloud
gives students insight into the reading
process that you use as a teacher and
learn to imitate that.
1.Predicting Words (Helps to self-monitor
through meaning and common sounds)
2.Reread to predict a word
3.Rearrange the word through phrases or
help with pace
Expanding Vocabulary

Source:
Caf, p101
Caf, p29
Catching Readers, p136
Catching Readers, p137
Source:
Growing Readers, p160
Caf, p29
Caf, p29
Catching Readers, p137
Source:
Growing Readers, p171
Catching Readers, p160-161
Catching Readers, p137
Source:

Struggling Readers, p122

Caf, p29
Struggling Readers, p123
Source:
Growing Readers, p170
Growing Readers, p244
Source:
What Really Matters for Struggling
Readings, Allington, p.136
Catching Readers, p16
Catching Readers, p123
Catching Readers, p123

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Strategy:
1. Interesting words (Word walls)
2. Using illustrations to help figure out the
word
3. Using words to determine meaning of
other words
4. Use prior knowledge and context to
predict meaning
5. Use resources

Source:
Caf, p24
Caf, p24
Caf, p24
Caf, p24
Caf, p24