reading strategies. guide for educators in teaching comprehension.

1. Repurposed Slides
READING STRATEGIES
by
TLANGELANI REKHOTSO

3. Different types of Text
• Novels
• Poems
• Letters
• Newspapers
• Guidebooks
• Advertisements

4. Approaching Reading
• know your area of interest to choose correct text
• know level of instruction, not too easy or too difficult
• Choose text that will make connections to other disciplines so that
learners can connect their reading to the real world.
• Because reading is a skill, it has to be approached with a reading
outline.
• Understand WHY you are reading in order to master the skill.
JoAnn Miller, Editorial Macmillan

5. Reading Techniques
• Extensive Reading ( reading to gain an overview by looking at the
heading, captions, changes in the type setting
• Intensive Reading (careful detailed reading of section of a text)
• Skimming and Scanning also relates to the concepts above but
defined as rapid eye movements and keywords to move quickly
through text for slightly different purposes.
Jim Scrivener, Learning Teaching, Heinemann,1994.

6. Skills and strategies Required
Reading requires a variety of strategies and skills such as
• Recognizing
• Deducing
• Understanding
• Identifying
• Distinguishing
• Extracting key points

7. Parts of reading
• Pre-reading (schemata,allows new information and experience)
• Reading practice (make connetions, generate questions and stay
focused during reading)
• Post- reading (summarise, reflect, discuss and respond to the text)
Kevin Laurence Landry, “ schemata in second language reading”,The
reading Matrix, Vol.3, September 2002.

8. Meaning making
To make meaning of text, the reader has to summarise the following
• Characters ( who the text is about)
• Setting ( where and when events unfold)
• Problem ( climax or the themes the text is covering)
• Solution ( how issues at hand are resolved)
www.teachthought.com/literacy/25-reading strategies

9. Teacher collaboration
According to Louis and Mark (1996), teacher collaboration is very
important as it enables learners to make connections across
curriculum.
Characteristics of professional communities as a results of collaboration
are : reflective dialogue
shared values
focus on student learning

10. Conclusion…….
• Good readers RE-read in order to fully comprehend text
• Evaluate your own understanding
• Ask yourself “ what did I learn”
• See if you can draw links to real life contexts
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