Standard: Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts.

• Friendship Valley Elementary School
  The homepage of this school in Carroll County, Maryland, USA, includes links to several pages that relate to students' thoughts about reading strategies. For example, one page presents a student's definition of metacognition; another focuses on how students can use prior knowledge to evaluate and absorb new information. Also posted at the site are students' thoughts about persistence, decreasing impulsiveness, listening, checking for precision and accuracy, questioning and problem solving, using the senses, and flexibility in thinking. Links to a variety of sites that discuss areas of interest and concern to teachers are included.
  
  
• Cooperative Learning: Student Perspectives
  The Education Development Center, Inc., developed this page at its site. Students react to such things as the use of facilitators and observers in a reading group.
  
  
• Critical Thinking Skills: Teaching Materials
  This area of About.com has links to a “How to Teach” series that stimulates critical thinking in teaching and learning, an “Opposing Views” series that offers seven single-themed books on controversial topics, a list of recommended readings, and details about numerous additional teaching resources.
  
  
• Self-Monitoring for Assessing Reading Comprehension
  The slide show featured at this site includes several screens about metacognition. The presentation was developed by the Milwaukee Area Tech College in Wisconsin, USA.
  
  
• Special Programs at Marvine Elementary School
  At Marvine Elementary in Pennsylanvia, USA, teachers begin their regular Reading Workshop sessions with minilessons based on class needs. Students then read self-selected books while teachers confer with individual children to check on their reading strategies, book selections, and comprehension. At the end of the reading session, there is time for sharing. Read about Marvine's implementation of the Reading Workshop at this site, and also about the school's Reading Recovery program for low-achieving first graders.
  
  
• Writing Summaries
  This page is part of the Techmore Project, an online freshman composition course linking undergraduate students in Texas and New York. Here students are offered step-by-step guidelines for taking notes and summarizing text, and examples of summaries are also given.
  
  
• Sustained Silent Reading
  Descriptions of the following topics related to SSR are presented at this site: background and history of the strategy; common problems; research on the best SSR practices; influence of learning styles; ideas to make your SSR program more effective; and tips from author and educator Stephen Krashen. The SSR pages are part of the site of the Seattle Public Schools in Washington, USA.