Teaching Comprehension and Word Identification Strategies
Why Teach Strategies?
Teachers often work tirelessly to ensure that students have knowledge of:
One of the most crucial elements of supporting reading development is the explicit teaching of reading strategies so readers are able to access their prior knowledge during reading. A reader must actively integrate a range of strategies, including both word identification and comprehension strategies to draw upon all available knowledge in the form of cues. Efficient readers have often automated many of these reading strategies so many occur subconsciously.
- a growing lis of sight words
- graphophonic elements
- grammatical features of the English language
- text structures and organization
- topics and concepts
- cultural and world matters.
One of the most crucial elements of supporting reading development is the explicit teaching of reading strategies so readers are able to access their prior knowledge during reading. A reader must actively integrate a range of strategies, including both word identification and comprehension strategies to draw upon all available knowledge in the form of cues. Efficient readers have often automated many of these reading strategies so many occur subconsciously.
What Are the Strategies?
Efficient readers are active as they read, simultaneously using a range of processes to identify unknown words and comprehend text. The following strategies are not hierarchical or phase specific. In any reading event a number of reading strategies will be used simultaneously to aid comprehension and/or to identify unknown words.
A List of Reading Strategies
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