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Teaching reading strategies
Readers need to know how to read, that is, to use reading strategies.
Reading strategies are actions that connect or link ideas in two
ways :
- they link ideas in the text at any time with ideas that they
have read earlier in the text.
- they link ideas in the text with ideas they have already learnt
and stored in their existing knowledge.
It is useful to identify two types of strategies students need
to learn to use when reading : how to comprehend the text they read
and how to manage their reading activity:
- comprehending strategies; these are the actions readers use
to manipulate and link ideas at each level, e.g., visualising,
inferring, summarise. These are part of a reader's literacy knowledge,
their knowledge of how to make sense of written text.
- the actions readers use to manage and direct the use of the
comprehending strategies, for example, decide when and why to
use each action, evaluate how well it works in terms of a goal
and frame up goals for reading. These are the actions readers
use to manage and direct their activity while reading.
Readers learn these actions initially in interactive reading activities.
They can practise using them in a supported way in the paired and
shared reading contexts and ultimately use them independently in
solo reading aloud contexts.
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