Reading strategies

Before the 1980s, little comprehension instruction occurred in the United States (National Reading Panel, 2000). Palinscar and Brown (1984) developed a technique called reciprocal teaching that taught students to predict, summarize, clarify, and ask questions for sections of a text. The technique had positive outcomes. Since then, the use of strategies like summarizing after each paragraph have come to be seen as effective strategies for building students' comprehension. The idea is that students will develop stronger reading comprehension skills on their own if the teacher gives them explicit mental tools for unpacking text (Pressley, 2006).

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Reading Strategies

Before	During	After	Reading Strategy	Description
	*	*	Annolighting A Text	This active reading strategy links concept of highlighting key words and phrases in a text and annotating those highlights with marginal notes.
	*	*	Annotating A Text	Annotating a text is an effective strategy to promote active and critical reading skills; this strategy provides a number useful acronyms that students can use to remember different elements of writer's craft when reading and annotating a text.
*			Anticipation Guide	Anticipation guides are typically used as a pre-reading strategy and help to engage students in thought and discussion about ideas and concepts that they will encounter in the text.
*			Checking out the Framework	This strategy provides students with suggestions for previewing texts of different genre in order to read strategically based on their purposes for reading the text.
	*	*	Collaborative Annotation	This strategy engages students in a process of co-constructing their interpretations of a text through a collaborative annotation activity.

 

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Strategies for Reading Comprehension-Brown

1.   Identify your purpose in reading.

By doing so, you know that what you are looking for and can weed out potential distracting information.

2.   Use graphemic rules and patterns to aid in bottom-up decoding (esp. for beginners)

At the beginning levels of learning English, one of the difficulties students encounter in learning to read is making the correspondences between spoken and written English. They may need hints and explanations about certain English orthographic rules and peculiarities.

 

3.   Use efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension ( for intermediate to advanced learners )

You can help your intermediate-to-advanced level students increase efficiency by teaching a few silent reading rules:

a)   You do not need to "pronounce" each word to yourself.

b)   Try to visually perceive more than one word at a time, preferably phrases.

c)   Unless a word is absolutely crucial to global understanding, skip over it and try to infer its meaning from its context.

4.   Skim the text for main ideas.

Skimming consists of quickly running one's eye across a whole text for its gist. Skimming gives readers the advantage of being able to predict the purpose of the passage, the main topic, or message.

 

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Strategies to Facilitate Second Language Literacy Development -Celce-Murcia

The following strategies can help ELLs develop their literacy abilities as well as provide practice in some of the areas required by literacy standards.

 

1.     Expose Students to the Many Uses of Print around Them

Label items in the room.

Focus attention on the print around the class-morn, school, or neighborhood.

Manage aspects of classroom business in writing.

Establish a regular plate to post announcements or messages.

Record the discussions on chart paper; keep these posted as long as a theme is being studied.

Create areas in the morn for 'profit- literacy pur­poses.

Display different genres of reading and writing materials or books.

 

2.   Provide Opportunities for Children to Read More Extensively on a Subject

Have students investigate topics of interest related to the content or theme being studied, writing up their findings or presenting them orally to the class. Internet research and projects are excel­lent sources of extensive reading material.

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