Teach Reading
Sub-Skills
Teachers should concentrate on specific target areas of the reading process when it comes to sub-skills. Assessing each student's individual needs is a great way to go about this endeavor. The goal is for the student to increase comprehension and vocabulary. Remember, motivation is a key element in learning anything, especially reading. Smile and show your students just how fun reading is!
Instructions
1. Choose a variety of texts. You can choose from textbooks, novels, poems, newspaper articles, magazine advertisements, diaries, online forums, and even billboard signs. Make students aware of the words around them.
2. Model predict what students are about to read every time they approach a text. Show them judge what the text may be from the title of the article.
3. Teach students skim (scan) the text before reading. In doing so, they can pick up clues about the text itself.
4. Show students guess what a difficult word means by inferring its meaning from its context. Do this by modeling the inference skill while you read aloud.
5. Use flash cards or an overhead projector to teach students high frequency words and word recognition. Repetition is key.
6. Make the text personal. Find a way to have the students connect what they read to something in their own lives. When a reader is able to identify with the text in some way, they will comprehend the text much more quickly and thoroughly.
