The Read Naturally strategy provides comprehension building activities with the key word step, prediction step, multiple choice questions, and written or oral retell. What do you recommend if I want to do even more extensive work on comprehension?
The Key Three Routine is a professional development program for teaching comprehension strategies to students in grades 4–12. The strategies can be taught in content classrooms but also as a comprehension intervention program for students with reading difficulties.
The Key Three Routine emphasize three key skills to develop active reading strategies: identifying and stating main ideas, taking two-column notes, and summarizing. These skills are combined into a series of activities that can be applied to content reading. Joan Sedita developed the Key Three Routine during 30 years of work with struggling readers, and the program has been adopted for use in numerous schools throughout the country.
After fluency passages have been used to develop fluency skills, students can apply the activities of the Key Three Routine to the passages. This provides the opportunity to practice the application of comprehension strategies to content reading. The activities include identifying and stating the main ideas and details, turning the main ideas into questions, and summarizing.
For more information about the Key Three Routine professional development program for teaching comprehension strategies or about how the Key Three Routine activities can be practiced with fluency passages, visit the Sedita Learning Strategies website or call 978.887.2844.