Teaching Reading Comprehension

Comprehension strategies are conscious plans — sets of steps that good readers use to make sense of text. Comprehension strategy instruction helps students become purposeful, active readers who are in control of their own reading comprehension. The seven strategies here appear to have a firm scientific basis for improving text comprehension: monitoring comprehension, metacognition, graphic and semantic organizers, answering questions, generating questions, recognizing story structure, summarizing, effective comprehension instruction is explicit instruction.

http://www.readingrockets.org/article/3479/

This site explains how Bloom's Taxonomy of higher order thinking can push students to deeper questioning. it also has question prompts to be used for Reading Workshop and all content areas. This is very valuable when differentiating instruction and challenging students to actively engage with the content.

http://www.msad54.org/district/literacyspecialist/pdf/blooms.pdf