READING STRATEGIES
Becoming our students into efficient readers:
Reading strategies for children can help our future students to be prepared for academic challenges they will face.
Being a proficient reader in the early years of school is really important for their future.
Good readers use different strategies naturally, but not everybody is familiar with the ways that work best for them individually. So as future teachers we must facilitate them different strategies to improve the acquisition and the comprehension of the content of any text.
To achieve this goal we have five very effective strategies:
- VISUALIZE
To get children imagine or draw what a character looks like. They could verbally explain what a setting looks like. Many students think visually while others have difficulty, so this can be helpful for both types of learners.
- SUMMARIZE
This stage allows our young students to differentiate between the main thoughts and the minor details. After finishing a chapter or section, we should make them to retell what they just read and then write down a brief summarization.
- PREDICT
This third reading strategy consist to make them to predict what they think will happen next. This helps encourage active reading and helps them stay engaged with the text. This can also help signal a misunderstanding of the text that needs revisiting.
- ASK QUESTIONS
Have children come up with questions about the text, steer them away from the questions about minor details and have them focus on questions about the meaning or morals. This helps nurture active learning.
- FIND CONNECTIONS
For the last reading strategy we could ask them to relate a character in the text to themselves or someone else they know.
Have them connect different similarities and direct opposites. This will help them understand the text fom a new perspective and encourages deeper thought.
It is important to adapt how you read to suit the material and your purpose for reading.
It is important to promote reading our students because that will be the basis for dealing with the problems of life when they grow up.
If we follow these strategies in class they will succeed!
* Do you like to read?
* Do you think that your teachers encouraged the pleasure of reading in school?
* What strategy do you think is the most important?
* Would you add some other strategy?
Hi Marta!:
ResponderEliminarI think that these strategies are very useful and we as future teachers will should help students to develop their reading ability. I am going to answer most of the questions that you ask us. First of all I love reading so I am very interested in your post. About my teachers, I think that they did not encourage our pleasure of reading too much because we always had to read compulsory books and in many cases it was not very nice for us. But I also think that fortunately the education is changing and nowadays the teachers are more aware with this problem and the reading is focused from another perspective.
In think that the most important strategy is Visualize because doing it they can discover that each of them imagine the same text or character in a different way and this is the reason why reading is so special.
If you want you can visit my blog because I wrote about a good reading strategy called “The four square retelling” and maybe you would find it interesting.
Thanks! Good job!=)