Reading Comprehension Strategies

Some reading comprehension strategies:
aNarration (telling back what you have read or heard) - read more here
aOutlining (especially for older students)
aVocabulary preview (searching for unfamiliar words ahead of time and looking up their definition)
aQuestions to answer while reading (be alert for questions to predetermined questions while reading) - for example
aMany more ideas here, here, here, and here

A few great resources to learn how to teach literature:
4 Critical Conditioning (Kathryn Stout)
4 Teaching the Classics (Adam Andrews)
4 How to Read a Book (Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren)
4 You Can Teach Your Child Successfully (Ruth Beechick)
4 The Reading Teacher's Book of Lists (also, Literature Teacher's...)