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The Teaching of Reading readers background Exploit the

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knowledge. 2. Build a strong vocabulary base. 3. Teach for comprehension. 4. Work on increasing reading rate. 5. Teach reading strategies. Click 6. edit Master subtitle style transform to Encourage readers to strategies into skills. 7. Build assessment and evaluation into your teaching. 8. Strive for continuous improvement as a reading teacher.
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Exploit the readers Experiences background knowledge. Negative influence can hinder comprehension
Negative influence can be corrected by

prereading activities

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Build a strong vocabulary base.


Vocabulary to successful reading Explicitly taught Guess effectively using context

1. What vocabulary do my learners need to know? 2. How will they learn this vocabulary? 3. How can I best test to see what they need to know and what they now know?
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Teach for comprehension.


Monitoring comprehension verifying that the predictions being made cognitive and metacognitive skills Questioning the author behavior of asking questions in order to make

sense of what is being read


What is the author trying to say here?

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Work on increasing reading rate.


reading is not fluent overemphasize accuracy which impedes

fluency

a fluent reader as one who reads at a rate of

200 words-per-minute with at least 70 percent comprehension


Skills such as scanning, skimming, predicting,

and identifying main ideas get students to approach reading in different ways
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Teach reading strategies.


Strategies are the tools for active, self-

directed involvement

verbalize (or talk about) their thought

processes as they read


Readers can listen to the verbal report of

another reader

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Strategies can be defined as conscious

actions that learners take to achieve desired goals or objectives automatic.

Encourage readers to transform strategies into conscious strategy to using an unconscious skill skills.
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a skill is a strategy that has become

Reading strategies
Struggling readers need: knowledge of different types of texts and the best strategies for reading them. multiple and meaningful opportunities to practise reading in subject-specific contexts. opportunities to practise reading with appropriate resources. opportunities to talk about their reading and thinking.
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Effective readers use strategies to understand what they read before, during, and after reading.
Before reading, they: use prior knowledge to think about the

topic.

make predictions about the probable

meaning of the text.


preview the text by skimming and scanning

to get a sense of the overall meaning.


During reading, they: monitor understanding by questioning,
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Build assessment and evaluation into your Quantitative assessment will include teaching. information from reading comprehension tests
Qualitative information can include reading

journal responses

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Strive for continuous improvement view themselves as facilitators as a reading teacher.


Reading teachers need to be passionate

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