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A is for Adaptable, It is important to adapt to 

students different learning styles. Support your 

students by being flexible with certain 

instruction.

(Clark and Graves, 2005)

B is for Base Your Understanding

of Comprehension on the Social

Constructivist Nature of Reading (McLaughlin 

2012) 

C is for Comprehension, which is making 

sure that our students understand what 

they are reading. (Dooley 2011)

D is for a Draw and Write Retell, which is a 

good strategy for teaching summarizing. 

(McLaughlin, 2012)

c

E is for Expository Text, which unlike 

narrative text, students always struggle no 

matter the reading level they are at. (Vacca, 

1998)

F   is for Fix-up Strategies, Like re-reading, 

pictures and allowing students to ask for help 

when a student cannot make sense of what 

was read. (Cunningham & Allington 2011)

G is for PATTERN GUIDE, a guide used as a 

during-reading activity to help students 

understand differences between certain topics. 

(Gill, 2008)

H is for 

Help students become more fluent by engaging them

in repeated readings for real purposes like 

performancesand Readers Theatre (Pardo 2004)

I is for Independent...

Teachers would encourage students to practice 

summarizing independently. As the teachers 

move from full support to providing support as 

needed to providing little or no support, 

students take on more and more responsibility. 

(Clark and Graves, 2005)

J is for Judgments...

Making judgments about the text content and 

the author's work is a crucial reading 

comprehension strategy.

(McLaughlin, 2012)

K is for Knowledge. We will equip our 

students with the knowledge they need to be 

successful readers! (Dymock and Nicholson 

2010)

L is for LIST, the simplest descriptive 

pattern, which focus on the attributes of 

something. (Dymock & Nicholson, 2010)

M is for Metalinguisitic Awareness.

" The ability to objectify language and dissect 

it as an arbitrary linguistic code independent of 

meaning." It is very important in the journey 

of learning to read. (Zipke, 2008)

           N 

is for Engaged learners achieve because they 

want to understand, they possess 

intrinsicmotivation for interacting with text, 

they

use cognitive skills to understand, and

they share knowledge by talking with

teachers and peers. (McLaughlin 2012)

O is for ORGANIZATIONAL WALK-

THROUGHS, which allow the teacher to point 

out major features of the text: chapter 

headings, subheadings, pictures and captions, 

review questions, and so forth. 

(Gill,2008)

P is for POSTREADING which is a tool used to deepen 

a student’s understanding of the text. 

Ex) Timeline, map, concept map 

(Gill 2008)

Q is for Questioning the Author...

While reading students should question the 

Author, this will prompts students thinking and 

discussion as they are reading a text. 

(Dooley, 2011)

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