ABSTRACT
How do teachers support teaching reading and content goals? We support students’ ability to read by using specific strategies and scaffolds, and we support students’ content learning through activities that allow children to apply what they have learned. In this chapter, we describe how reading a text is a complex process that requires various skills. We detail how readers comprehend texts and how they develop linguistic comprehension. Next, we consider how readers learn from texts and how we can help children use what they know to build new knowledge. We connect how we teach students to both be better comprehenders and learn from texts, and what this looks like when planning and teaching for comprehension around literacy standards. We wrap up this chapter by describing how to support content learning through Application Activities.
