The document discusses various strategies for developing reading skills across subjects. It describes moving beyond traditional comprehension questions by having students interact with texts in different ways, such as visual and moving image materials. The document also provides tips for decoding difficult words, including guessing meanings based on context, referring to prior knowledge, and reading passages aloud. It recommends slowly releasing full texts to encourage questioning and predictions, as well as scrambling or reordering sentences to focus on elements like chronology.

1. Developing Reading Skills
across the Curriculum

2. Re-imagining Comprehensions
Old style comprehensions have their place in
developing reading skills , often requiring students to
search for information or ideas.

3. Comprehending the next
generation
It is all about identifying different ways
for the students to interact with texts.

4. Reading Visual Texts
Visual and moving-image texts can be subjected to
the same level of active, engaged reading and
questioning. In doing so we can develop the skills of
the student still further.

5. Decoding difficult words
Guessing: What might that word mean?
Accepting partial understa: What do you think is the gist? Leave that bit and come back to
it.
Testing out: Have a guess at that bit and see if it goes on to make sense.
Re-reading: Go back, read that bit again carefully.
Visualising: Can you picture…? What might a _________ look like?
Referring to prior knowledge: What do you know about…? Where have you come across
the word…?
Reading aloud: If you try reading that sentence aloud, what’s the most important word?
Translating: What is another word for __________?
Referring to examples: If you think of … then does that help you to…?

6. Release the text slowly
Effective for securing attention, encouraging questioning and
predictions.

7. Text Scrambling
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account also and approach
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people’s personal personalities
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This this to what with
Instead of researching what
the media do to the
audience, this approach
studies what the audience
does with the media. This
approach also takes account
of people’s personalities and
personal
needs.

8. Text Sequencing
Good for focusing on chronology, on
procedure or on structure.