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
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…
during and
We’ll show post-
We’ll do pre-reading reading
lots of strategies.. strategies
. and Sounds
modeling 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.