What are the comprehension strategies I should be teaching my students?

There are seven comprehension strategies that are key to becoming a proficient reader: * Activating relevant, prior knowledge before, during, and after reading text. * Determining the most important ideas * Asking questions of themselves, the authors, and the text they are reading. * Creating visual and other sensory images during and after reading. * Drawing inferences. * Retelling or synthesizing what they have read * Using a variety of fix-up strategies to better comprehend what you are reading when you are having understanding the text problems (Adapted from Mosaic of Thought, Keen and Zimmerman, 1997)