Monitoring Comprehension Strategy Differentiated Worksheets

These worksheets provide students with structured opportunities to practice self-monitoring while reading sentences, paragraphs, and short texts. By recording their understanding and identifying tricky parts, students become more confident, independent readers.

This resource includes:

• Three levels of practice—sentences, paragraphs, and short texts—to suit different reading abilities.
• Engaging prompts and structured response sections to help students track their comprehension.

How to Use These Monitoring Comprehension Strategy Worksheets in the Classroom

The Monitoring Comprehension Strategy is an essential reading skill that helps students become active and reflective readers. 

Here’s how to use these differentiated worksheets:

• Independent task – Students record their thoughts as they read, noting where they fully understand and where they need clarification.
• Group rotations – Have students discuss their responses, identifying strategies to overcome comprehension challenges.
• Assign sentence-level practice for emerging readers and short text activities for more advanced students.
• Use the worksheets across multiple texts to help students track progress in their comprehension skills.

Download and Monitor Comprehension Today!

Help students monitor comprehension today by using the dropdown menu to choose between the easy to print PDF version of this resource or the editable Google Slide version.

This resource was created by Kaylyn Chupp, a teacher in Florida and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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