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The Seven Steps Every Proficient Reader Utilizes

How is your child's reading comprehension? As you begin this new school year, you may want to read the book 7 Keys to Comprehension by Zimmermann and Hutchins. These authors enumerate the 7 strategies utilized by all proficient readers.

Follow up:

1. Visualizing or using sensory images as you read.
2. Use your background knowledge as you read to enhance your understanding.
3. Ask questions as you read.
4. Making inferences helps you elaborate upon your reading and build a deeper meaning.
5. Determining what is important as you read and
6. use this to decide which ideas are critical to understanding the overall theme.
7. When you are having trouble understanding a piece you are reading, learn some specific strategies that will help you get back on the track to reading comprehension.

If your child is having significant problems with reading comprehension, you may want to consider finding a tutor who can help your child master each of these important reading comprehension strategies. Help your child have a successful school year and learn to LOVE reading!

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