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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: Building Literacy in Social Studies: Ch 1: Reading Social Studies Texts
Article provides excellent tips and strategies for building comprehension and critical thinking skills in Social Studies. It describes some of the challenges students have with reading and understanding their textbooks.
Austin Independent School District
The Reading Teacher: Oral Reading Fluency [Pdf]
A research-based article about oral reading fluency and its correlation with reading comprehension. Includes information about different fluency development materials, how to use screening tests to show areas of concern or to track...
Austin Independent School District
Austin Independent School District: Questioning the Author [Pdf]
Improve reading comprehension by using the reading strategy of Questioning the Author. Explains the strategy with scripted examples of the strategy in action, ideas for implementation, research behind the strategy, and more.