Reading the Web

Abstract

Online reading requires traditional and new comprehension skills and strategies, and these skills and strategies will have to be taught and supported, especially for young beginning readers. But how do elementary teachers go about doing this? Much of the research regarding teaching and supporting online reading comprehension has focused on older rather than younger readers. The significance of Internet Guided Reading is that it provides one successful instructional strategy for the primary classroom teacher that supports young children at various levels of proficiency with print and the Internet in learning to read informational texts on the Web. Internet Guided Reading effectively combines guided reading, modified reciprocal teaching, and online reading comprehension.