Director: Matt Moses Supervisory Staff: Julie Forgione, Desiree Evans, Zainab Shah, Bryant Contreras, Delsy Vargas-Ortiz Facilitator: Desiree Evans
Reading: Reflections on Practice Please Note: The following information was taken from “Teaching Reading to Adults” from The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (2012), “Teaching Reading To College Students” (2011), and “Strategies to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension in Any Discipline” by The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (2009). Habits of A Good Reader Reads with a purpose- for information and awareness, for recreation and enrichment, to gain from other’s experiences, higher order thinking skills, to improve vocabulary and language, to write (reading and writing support each other- writing grows from alert, engaged, informed, and active reading) Skims, Scans Summarizes Uses background knowledge Predicts Makes inferences & evaluations Questions Write the definition of the two reading terms below: Skim:______________________________________________________________________ Scan:______________________________________________________________________________ Helping Your Student Become a Good Reader 1. Teach students to form questions from headings and titles 2. Teach students to take notes, write summaries, outline, and create concept maps 3. Show students how to identify both stated and implied main ideas as well as how to understand the roles of supporting details 4. Ask questions to identify the main ideas: Based on the title of the reading, what do you think the article will be about? Is there one sentence that describes the main idea for this topic? What two words would you use to describe the main or essential part of the paragraph?