All learners/ students need to improve their level of comprehend any given text, and without appropraite methods is impossible to succeed in reading task.
It could be more appropriate to discuss the ways of 'boosting reading comprehension' rather than the ways of teaching it. In my opinion, one of the most effective ways is to encourage learners to keep reading more or less they understand the reading material due to the fact that the more they read, the better they can absorb it.
I think that repeating and discussing about the reading with colleagues are useful to achieve more knowledge
These are possible with the help of pre literacy skill, the phonic method, the whole word approach, the language experience methods
It could be more appropriate to discuss the ways of 'boosting reading comprehension' rather than the ways of teaching it. In my opinion, one of the most effective ways is to encourage learners to keep reading more or less they understand the reading material due to the fact that the more they read, the better they can absorb it.
I think that mastering the reading skill should start by test placement for learners to determine the weaknesses require remedial or reinforcement plans.From this you can build up your plans in as learners are different in levels.Means that some students may need phonetic course,others can read one sentence or more.The others can read paragraphs or texts.
You can varify the reading resources from paragraphs,articles,magazines,newspapers,books,blogs,or wikipedia.
Relate the content for reading to students' experiences/prior reading/societal or global issue to get them interested in reading. Once they are motivated and you have their interests, you can work on different strategies for engaging them in reading comprehension.
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Debra
I think we need to distinguish between reading in the sense of decoding a written material and reading for understanding before we venture to provide our answers. Most of the answers seem to assume the latter.
Hi Zeneb,
Comprehension is the ultimate final product of reading -- there is no other reason for it than to derive meaning/understanding from the text. Rather than focusing on a code-based approach using decoding from the visual to the auditory, one should use strategies that enhance the reader's ability to use her/his background knowledge when reading. Since reading comprehension comes from juxtapositioning one's background knowledge of the world and of language (referred to as using "cueing systems") with the in-coming visual text to "weave a web of meaning" (J. Emig's quote), then you should use stratgies to do this.
Ellin Oliver Keene's book "To Understand: new Horizons in reading comprehension" as well as Keene & Zimmermann's " Mosaic of Thought: The power of comprehension strategy instruction (2nd edition)" is also good.
A very good and effectful way is to include drama as a learning form. You can read about my project in grade 6 regarding: "Drama as a creative aesthetic learning process to improve reading competence" (p3-12) in: Charru Sharma (edit): Drama and Theatre with Children International perspectives. Routhledge research in International and Comparative education 2016. ISBN978-1-138-85974-6
Children's phonological and orthographic skills are good predictors of their reading comprehension skills. Children with these skills read faster and more fluently, two main skills for reading comprehension. Therefore, screening children based on these skills may determine those who need to boost their decoding and orthographic skills.
Check out reciprocal teaching (Palinscar et al) and QAR (Question Answer Relationships) and their research-base.
You definitely should check the "Questioning the Author" method by Isabel Beck and Margaret McKeown. Also check the Readingrockets.org page. Greetings.
Check out these resources for reading comprehension - http://www.readingrockets.org/article/seven-strategies-teach-students-text-comprehension
For more QAR http://www.readingrockets.org/strategies/question_answer_relationship
My read - strategies for teaching reading in the middle years http://www.myread.org/
If we're talking about teaching reading comprehension one popular method is teaching it following the three phases of pre- reading (questions set to generate initial interest in the subject before student begin to read), reading (with focus on questions and tasks related to the text read) and post- reading (questions which ask students to go beyond the text in the form of applying what they know).
Another code for this is BDA. Before During After. The strategies people use before, during & after reading.
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