Teaching Resource
Reading Comprehension Strategies Poster Pack
A set of 18 reading comprehension strategy posters.
Display these educational posters in your classroom as prompts for students when completing reading comprehension activities.
The reading comprehension strategies included in this pack include:
- Compare and contrast
- Recognize cause and effect
- Find the main idea
- Recall facts and details
- Understand sequence
- Make predictions
- Summarize
- Identify author’s purpose
- Find word meaning in context
- Draw conclusions and make inferences
- Distinguish between fact and opinion
- Interpret figurative language
- Distinguish between real and make believe
- Make connections
- Monitor understanding
- Ask questions
- Visualize
- Activate prior knowledge.
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Common Core State Standards alignment
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.9
Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)...
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.2
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text; summarize the text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.4
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including those that allude to significant characters found in mythology (e.g., Herculean)....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.6
Compare and contrast the point of view from which different stories are narrated, including the difference between first- and third-person narrations....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.4.10
By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poetry, in the grades 4-5 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.4
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.7
With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts)....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.1
Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.2
Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.6
Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.8
Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.2.9
Compare and contrast the most important points presented by two texts on the same topic....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.1
Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2
Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.8
Explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.5.5
Compare and contrast the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.4.C
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.2.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.3.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.4.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.A
Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.5.4.C
Use context to confirm or self-correct word recognition and understanding, rereading as necessary....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.2.2
Recount or describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.3.2
Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.1.4.A
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.4.A
Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.4.4.A
Use context (e.g., definitions, examples, or restatements in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase....
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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.5.4.A
Use context (e.g., cause/effect relationships and comparisons in text) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase....
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