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.