READING COMPREHENSION

What about you?

T-P-S: In your teaching

experiences, how do you

begin a reading lesson?

Your ideas…

(Let’s make a list and share your ideas for how to begin a reading lesson; methods you’ve used in your own teaching)

We can learn from each

other.

What do you think?

Turn to your partner and discuss…

Is reading an active process?

Our Goal…

Give your students the skills to be

more independent

readers!

Reading Strategies

Reading strategies are the skills we can give to make our students more independent.

Reading strategies: are strategies the reader uses to comprehend (or answer questions about) a text.

In Methodology II…

We’ll do lots of modeling.

We’ll show pre-reading strategies...

during and post-

reading strategies

and activities.

Sounds fabulous!

This week in Methods class…

Pre-reading strategies:

T-P-S: What can you do in the warm-up steps to get students ready for reading (and comprehending) the text?

Pre-Reading Strategies

We’ll be modeling… Previewing Predicting Visualizing Identifying the genre Making text connections Others?

In conclusion…

What are some main points so far?

Navigate English

Help students navigate the world of English by teaching them strategies.

Strategies develop learner autonomy.