Monitoring

• Estimate one’s confidence
• Check for understanding while reading text
• Rereading
• Questioning
• Using “fix up” strategies while reading

US Dept. of Education, Reading Comprehension Definition - a PowerPoint presentation defining monitoring in reading comprehension and an overview of strategies to teach monitoring.

ERIC database, Monitoring Article - "Strategic Processing of Text: Improving Reading Comprehension," article by Joanna Williams, about strategic processing and monitoring.

Flowchart, Monitoring Activity - downloadable PDF flowchart of monitoring behavior.

Stop, Ask, Fix Student Checklist - downloadble PDF checklist for students and teachers to use to evaluate monitoring behaviors.

Reading Rockets, Comprehension Article - teaching monitoring as a component of reading comprehension instruction.