1. Reading strategies
By: Ivan Aguilar

2. Objectives
By the end of the presentation we will
have…
 Discussed the concept of reading
strategies.
 Identified a set of reading strategies
 Described and used specific reading
strategies
 Evaluated what reading strategies we can
use and implemente in our classrooms

3. What good readers do…
O Set a goal
O Preview the Text
O Purpose for Reading
O Cross-check
O Stop and Review
O Use a Graphic Organizer
O Draw Conclusions
O Discuss and Respond

4. What are learning (reading
strategies)?
“operations employed by the learner to aid
the acquisition, storage, retrieval, and use of
information” (Oxford,1990, p.8)

5. MODEL TO TEACH STRATEGIES

7. Reading strategies: a list
O Activating previous knowledge
O Guessing meaning from context
O Identify main ideas
O Identify details
O Infer
O Make predictions
O Plan one’s own reading
O Personalization
O Reflection on one’s own learning

8. Activity 1: FIVE

9. Activity 1:FIVE
Description Strategies developed
Students prepare a set
of questions based on a
reading text.
Factual
Inference
Vocabulary
Experience
O Identify details
O Infer
O Guessing meaning
from context
O Personalization

10. Activity 2: ABC Brainstorm

11. Activity 2: ABC Brainstorm
Description Strategies developed
O Students complete
the alphabet with
words related to the
topic to be read
about.
O Activating previous
knwoledege
O Making predictions

12. Activity 3: KWL

13. Activty 3: KWL
Description Strategies developed
O Students complete
a chart about wht
they know, they
want to learn and
what they actually
learn through
reading the text
O Activating previous
knowledge
O Planing one’s own
reading
O Reflection on one’s
own learning

14. Activity 4: 3-2-1

15. Activity 3: 3-2-1
Description Strategies developed
O Students identify 3
things they
found, two
interesting
things, and one
question they have.
O Identify main ideas
O Identify details
O Reflection on one’s
own learning

16. Activity 4: Venn diagram

17. Activity 4: Venn Diagram
Description Strategies developed
O Students complete
a graphic organizer
about differences
and similarites
between
characteres or
aspects in the text
O Identify main ideas
O Identify details
O Personalization

18. Activity 5: Explanation from a
text

19. Activity 5:Explanation from
the text
Description Strategies developed
O Students identify in
the text the
explanation to
respond to some
questions
(highlighter
approach)
O Identify details
O Identify main ideas

20. Activity 6: Word map

21. Activity 6:Word map
Description Strategies developed
O Students research
the meaning of
some new words
O Planing one’s own
learning
O Guessing meaning
from context

22. LET’S APPLY IT?
O Select one reading
O Imlpement ne of the strategies
O Explain, we’ll hear your gruops