Hye everybody.
As an English teacher, I've been facing lots of problem to handle students who have problems with their reading skills. They usually fail to read well & understand the passage well due to the failure in their reading strategies. Reading may sounds like an easy task, but if we are doing it wrongly, we may not get the best result out of it. Believe me. Been there, done that.
As an English teacher who has been teaching a reading subject, I've managed to develope a few reading strategies that I must say, seem to work with my students. Thus, with this, I'd like to share with anyone of you who are facing the same problems that I'v once faced. However, please remember this one important thing, these strategies are going to take some time before the students can really apply them & show the results. Don't easily give up on them ya. Have some faith with the kids :)
In the meantime, enjoy these notes. And all the best with you trying on this.
Strategies that can help students read more quickly and effectively include:
*Quote of the day:
"A good begining makes a good end".
As an English teacher, I've been facing lots of problem to handle students who have problems with their reading skills. They usually fail to read well & understand the passage well due to the failure in their reading strategies. Reading may sounds like an easy task, but if we are doing it wrongly, we may not get the best result out of it. Believe me. Been there, done that.
As an English teacher who has been teaching a reading subject, I've managed to develope a few reading strategies that I must say, seem to work with my students. Thus, with this, I'd like to share with anyone of you who are facing the same problems that I'v once faced. However, please remember this one important thing, these strategies are going to take some time before the students can really apply them & show the results. Don't easily give up on them ya. Have some faith with the kids :)
In the meantime, enjoy these notes. And all the best with you trying on this.
Strategies that can help students read more quickly and effectively include:
- Previewing: reviewing titles, section headings, and photo captions to get a sense of the structure and content of a reading selection
- Predicting: using knowledge of the subject matter to make predictions about content and vocabulary and check comprehension; using knowledge of the text type and purpose to make predictions about discourse structure; using knowledge about the author to make predictions about writing style, vocabulary, and content
- Skimming and scanning: using a quick survey of the text to get the main idea, identify text structure, confirm or question predictions
- Guessing from context: using prior knowledge of the subject and the ideas in the text as clues to the meanings of unknown words, instead of stopping to look them up
- Paraphrasing: stopping at the end of a section to check comprehension by restating the information and ideas in the text
When reading, students need to follow four basic steps:
- Figure out the purpose for reading. Activate background knowledge of the topic in order to predict or anticipate content and identify appropriate reading strategies.
- Attend to the parts of the text that are relevant to the identified purpose and ignore the rest. This selectivity enables students to focus on specific items in the input and reduces the amount of information they have to hold in short-term memory.
- Select strategies that are appropriate to the reading task and use them flexibly and interactively. Students' comprehension improves and their confidence increases when they use top-down and bottom-up skills simultaneously to construct meaning.
- Check comprehension while reading and when the reading task is completed. Monitoring comprehension helps students detect inconsistencies and comprehension failures, helping them learn to use alternate strategies.
*Quote of the day:
"A good begining makes a good end".
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