[LM_NET] Reading Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents

[Jennie <jennieteacher@GMAIL.COM>]

Thought this was a good list to keep around.
Jennie

Edutopia - The New Drill <http://www.edutopia.org/new-drill> On-site coaches
focus on teachers, not students, in the battle to boost literacy. by Grace
Rubenstein <http://www.edutopia.org/grace-rubenstein> How To:
Reading-Comprehension Strategies for Adolescents

   - * Brainstorming prior knowledge*: The class collectively identifies
   what they already know about a topic before reading.
   - * Vocabulary frontloading*: The teacher goes over critical and
   difficult vocabulary before reading. Students may rephrase definitions in
   their own words.
   - * Visual representation*: Students draw images of key words or
   concepts.
   - * Reading aloud/thinking aloud*: The teacher reads a passage aloud
   and pauses to explain her own thought processes while reading. Teacher
   modeling may be useful for other comprehension strategies as well.
   - * Paired reading*: Students read aloud, identify key points, and
   process the text together in pairs.
   - * Leveled questioning*: Students ask themselves questions about the
   text that require increasing levels of inference, from identifying basic
   facts to linking themes together to finding connections between the text and
   their real-world experiences.
   - * Structured note taking*: An example is Cornell Note-Taking, in
   which students divide a page into two columns, writing key words or
   questions in one column and the definitions or answers adjacently in
   another.
   - * Using text structure*: Students learn to take cues about themes or
   meaning from elements other than the text itself, such as chapter headings
   or illustrations.
   - * Predicting*: The class predicts what happens next in a story or
   what lesson comes next in an informational text.
   - * Assessing the author's purpose*: Students learn to identify fact
   versus opinion and identify what effect the author is trying to achieve.
   - * Summarizing text*: Students summarize the main points of what
   they've read.
   - * Group discussion*: This is most effective when framed around
   critical questions for comprehension, such as analyses of cause and effect
   or symbolism, rather than simply, "Did you like it?"
   - * Self-selected reading*: The teacher provides time for students to
   read text of their own choosing, selected from a library of material that is
   of high interest and appropriate to differing skill levels to avoid
   frustration. The purpose here is practice and fun.

http://www.edutopia.org/new-drill


Jennie Scott-McKenzie
Middle School ICT Teacher
ATIS International School, Kuwait
jennieteacher@gmail.com

"taking the terror out of teacher techknowledgy"

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