Struggling Student

The student that I am focusing on in my clinical is struggling with reading comprehension.  My host teacher had me give her a Qualitative Reading Inventory (QRI) last week to test her fluency and comprehension skills.  She did very well with the fluency and only missed a few of the words, but she had trouble retelling the story to me.  She could only recall the broadest details of the story and missed chunks of the story entirely.  I looked for some strategies on reading comprehension and found a graphic organizer that is a story map that I am going to use with her next week.  The story map will help her pick out the important details of the story, such as setting, characters, events, problem, and solution.  I am going to have her fill out the story map after she reads me the story and see if she is able to retell it. 

I've noticed in class that she shys away from answering questions about something that has been read or the students are supposed to read.  She is one of the students who rarely raises her hand.  I believe it is because she is having trouble with comprehension.  I hope that using a story map will give her a resource to help her improve her reading comprehension skills.